Countries must ensure no rights abuser gets peacekeeping role: UN official

News Desk :
The United Nations under-secretary-general for peace operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, said that all troop and police-contributing countries were required by the UN to certify that no individual deployed in a peacekeeping job had violated human rights. Lacroix made the comments in reply to an email from Maayer Daak, a platform of the families of disappearance victims.
Sharing the email, Sanjida Islam, a coordinator of Maayer Daak, said that they received the email on Monday, where his office just passed a few lines of his speech made in a programme on Sunday.
In the email, the UN under-secretary general’s office informed that ‘for our engagement with communities to be successful, a prerequisite of almost all that we do, it remains imperative that all peacekeepers uphold the highest levels of conduct as well as the highest standards of integrity, competency, and efficiency.’

It said, ‘Accordingly, all troop and police contributing countries are required by the UN to certify upon deployment or rotation of personnel that no individual being deployed has committed or been alleged to have committed violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law.’
Maayer Daak sought an appointment from him on June 21 to submit a memorandum, but no schedule was given, Sanjida said. The UN under-secretary-general is currently visiting Bangladesh to attend the Peacekeeping Ministerial-2023 Preparatory Conference to be held in Ghana’s capital Accra in December this year.