Sec. 112. Addressing misconduct in United Nations peacekeeping missions
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The President shall direct the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the United Nations— to seek to alter the model memorandum of understanding for troop-contributing countries participating in United Nations peacekeeping missions to strengthen accountability measures related to the investigation, prosecution, and discipline of their troops in cases of misconduct; to seek to ensure that for each United Nations peacekeeping mission mandate renewal that is approved and for any new peacekeeping mission, the memorandum of understanding with the troop-contributing countries contains strong provisions that ensure an investigation and response to allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse offenses and the execution of swift and effective disciplinary action against personnel found to have committed the offenses is taken; and to seek to require the immediate repatriation of a particular military unit or formed police unit of a troop- or police-contributing country in a United Nations peacekeeping operation when there is credible information of widespread or systemic sexual exploitation or abuse by that unit and to prevent the deployment of that particular unit in a peacekeeping capacity until demonstrable progress has been made to prevent similar offenses from occurring in the future, to strengthen command and control, and to investigate and hold accountable those found guilty of sexual exploitation or abuse.
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to Congress a report with recommendations for changing the model memorandum of understanding for troop-contributing countries participating in United Nations peacekeeping missions that strengthen accountability measures and prevent sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations personnel. The report required under paragraph
(1)shall include the following elements: A plan to ensure the recommendations described in such paragraph are incorporated into the model memorandum of understanding. Specific recommendation on ways to track the progress and process by which a troop-contributing country investigates, prosecutes, and holds personnel accountable for misconduct.