A Incorporação da transversalização de gênero nas missões de paz da ONU

Abstract

The United Nations peacekeeping operations aim to restore or assist in the maintenance of peace in humanitarian crises contexts. A noble purpose, but it contains an obscure part: the sexual crimes committed by the peacekeepers themselves. More than that, the impunity possessed by those who perpetrated these crimes. Owing to this, the purpose of this work is to understand why this phenomenon continues to happen. Thus, in the first chapter, we seek to understand how the demand for the end of impunity has gained space in the international scenario through gender mainstreaming, which is analyzed through the lens of institutional feminism. In the second chapter, a brief contextualization on the feminist perspective as to why such crimes occurs is made, and then some examples of cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers are shown. Finally, a brief analyses is made of the United Nations immunities system in order to answer the question of whether the organization has, in fact, incorporated gender mainstreaming in order to impact the social environment – that is, to prevent and punish those who commit sex crimes – or if the speech was only used as a source of Legitimacy.