A/RES/57/306
5.
Notes with appreciation the Plan of Action2 developed by the Inter-Agency
Standing Committee Task Force on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in
Humanitarian Crises, and encourages all relevant agencies to pursue its effective and
appropriate implementation;
6.
Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the remedial and preventive
measures taken by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and
its implementing partners, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and the Department of
Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Secretariat, in response to
recommendations of the Office of Internal Oversight Services are extended, as appropriate,
to all peacekeeping missions, refugee camps, refugee-related operations and other
humanitarian operations;
7.
Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that, in response to
recommendations of the Office of Internal Oversight Services, clear and consistent
procedures for impartially reporting and investigating instances of sexual exploitation and
related offences are in place in all United Nations peacekeeping missions and humanitarian
operations;
8.
Encourages all United Nations organizations, funds and programmes, and
specialized agencies and non-governmental organizations, to incorporate into codes of
conduct specific responsibilities of humanitarian aid workers to prevent and respond
appropriately to sexual exploitation and abuse and to adopt appropriate disciplinary
procedures for dealing with such violations when they occur;
9.
Recognizes the shared responsibility, within their respective competencies, of
United Nations organizations and agencies and troop-contributing countries to ensure that
all personnel are held accountable for sexual exploitation and related offences committed
while serving in humanitarian and peacekeeping operations;
10. Requests the Secretary-General, in response to recommendations of the Office
of Internal Oversight Services, to maintain data on investigations into sexual exploitation
and related offences, irrespective of age and gender, by humanitarian and peacekeeping
personnel, and all relevant actions taken thereon;
11. Recalls its decision that reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services
should be considered under the relevant items of the agenda of the General Assembly;
12. Requests the Secretary-General, in his implementation of the measures
pursuant to the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services, to proceed expeditiously
also with the implementation of the present resolution, inter alia, by issuing as soon as
possible his bulletin on sexual exploitation and abuse, and to report thereon to the General
Assembly at its fifty-eighth session, including information on any new cases of sexual
exploitation revealed and the measures taken to deal with such cases.
83rd plenary meeting
15 April 2003
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