The document presents a report on the dialogue with refugee women, respect our rights, partnership for equality. This conference could not have taken place without the many refugee women who participated and shared their experiences and wisdom with UNHCR, and offered new solutions and ideas for moving forward, in partnership with them, to secure the equal rights of refugee women.
This document presents the secretary general’s bulletin about special measures for protection from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse. The Secretary-General, for the purpose of preventing and addressing cases of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse, and taking into consideration General Assembly resolution 57/306 of 15 April 2003, “Investigation into sexual exploitation of refugees by aid workers in West Africa”, promulgates the following in consultation with Executive Heads of separately administered organs and programmes of the United Nations
The present report presents the Secretary-General’s strategy to improve the Organization’s system-wide approach to preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and abuse. The strategy focuses on four main areas of action: putting victims first; ending impunity; engaging civil society and external partners; and improving strategic communications for education and transparency. Pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 57/306 and 70/286, the report also provides data on allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse across the United Nations system and by non-United Nations international forces authorized by a Security Council mandate. The data cover the period from 1 January to 31 December 2016. The proposed actions by the General Assembly are set out in section VIII of the present report. Information on the related estimated resource requirements and the funding arrangements thereof is set out in the addendum to the present report (A/71/818/Add.1). The estimated resource requirements within the current budget periods will be absorbed within existing approved resources and consequently will not give rise to additional resource requirements under the approved programme budget for the biennium 2016-2017 or the budgets for peacekeeping operations for the financial period 2017/18.
