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Bangladesh: UN says will look into rights bodies’ call for banning Rab from peacekeeping
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DHAKA, 22 January 2022, (TON): UN Secretary-General's Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said “the UN will look into the 12 human rights bodies' call for banning Rab from its peacekeeping missions.”
He said in his noon briefing "the UN, I mean, we just received the news of this. We will obviously be taking a look at it. I would remind you that we do have a pretty stringent human rights screening policy that applies to individual units from every country. But, we, obviously, have been taking very seriously what is being done.”
He said this in response to a question from a journalist that if the UN is concerned and considering any action following a letter from 12 human rights organizations to the Under‑Secretary‑General for Peacekeeping Operations, urging that the Rapid Action Battalion be banned from UN peacekeeping, and US sanctions on Rab.
On December 10, the US announced sanctions on Rab and seven of its current and former members over human rights violations.
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