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The United Nations’s strategy to address misconduct is based on three pillars: prevention, enforcement of United Nations standards of conduct, and victim assistance.
Prevention
Effective prevention measures help limit the risk of misconduct and ensure that all United Nations personnel maintain the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
Prevention of misconduct is part of the everyday work of United Nations personnel across the globe, in peacekeeping and special political missions, also known as field missions, and is included from the earliest stages of mission planning.
The United Nations works to prevent misconduct through measures such as:
- Training: All personnel receive training on the United Nations standards of conduct. To learn more about the training, please click here.
- Public Outreach and Awareness Raising: The United Nations engages with local communities and raises their awareness on what behavior they should expect from United Nations personnel, what behavior is not acceptable and what to do when they believe misconduct has occurred. To learn more about public outreach, please click here.
- Vetting: Screening individuals for a history of prior misconduct while serving in the United Nation to prevent people who have committed misconduct from being rehired. To learn more about vetting, please click here.
- Other measures specific to field missions : Depending on the environment where the United Nations operates, additional preventive measures may be implemented, e.g. restrictions on movement and curfews, requirement for soldiers to wear uniforms outside barracks, designating off-limits areas, increasing patrols in high-risk areas and decentralizing conduct and discipline personnel to high-risk locations.