Peacekeeping Watch is a project focused on monitoring sexual exploitation and abuse by UN Peacekeepers, and documenting efforts to address such abuse. In the past decade, accounts have surfaced of violations committed by peacekeepers against civilians, in a particular women and girls, during UN peacekeeping operations.

Resolution Watch is a resource developed by the PeaceWomen Project in order to highlight the language on women and gender issues that has been adopted specifically in the Security Council’s resolutions addressing all current and upcoming peacekeeping operations.

As part of its overall mandate, the UN's Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (C-34) has included reporting on gender issues in its "Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects.”

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Women in blue helmets
May 11, 2008 – (Guardian Newsblog) During the UN operation in Somalia, local women who ventured outside the refugee camps to collect firewood were frequently raped by peacekeepers. In Cambodia, the prostitute population of Phnom Penh increased from 6,000 to 25,000 while the UN was present. Elsewhere, UN soldiers have been known to establish their own prostitution rackets. When these problems have been brought to the notice of the UN leadership, complaints have often been fobbed off with the excuse that "boys will be boys".

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Handbook on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Armed Forces Personnel
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and DCAF, 2008
This handbook presents an overview of legislation, policies, and mechanisms for ensuring the protection and enforcement of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of armed forces personnel. It also contains recommendations for participating States of measures that should be taken in order to ensure that policies and practices are in full compliance with international human rights standards and OSCE human dimension commitments. Chapter 13 of the handbook addresses Women in the Armed Forces.

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