Due to sexual exploitation in South Sudan: The United Nations blacklists Norwegian officers.

According to TV2, citing the Norwegian broadcaster NRK, six Norwegian officers are barred from all future UN missions due to their actions in South Sudan. (See the charges against the Sunni officers below.)

The United Nations has blacklisted six Norwegian officers for a range of offenses, including sexual exploitation in South Sudan, and they are therefore barred from all future UN missions, according to a letter from the UN Secretariat.
In which the United Nations drew Norway’s attention to the fact that member states have a duty to transmit information quickly in the event of suspected sexual abuse, as, according to NRK, Norwegian authorities spent nine years informing the United Nations that Norwegian officers had purchased sexual services and exploited a local female worker at their camp in South Sudan.

In November of last year, NRK published news about an investigation into seven Norwegian officers in the UN mission in South Sudan, who had committed, among other things, buying sexual services for themselves and taking the women they met in a bar to their camp.

On Wednesday, NRK reported that six officers had been placed on the UN blacklist, according to a letter from the UN Secretariat to the Norwegian delegation to the UN.

The missions aim to protect civilians from abuses, including sexual assault.

Norway sent officers to South Sudan to contribute to the UN peacekeeping mission to protect civilians, including from sexual assault. The UN Office of Disciplinary Procedures in New York investigated the cases involving the Norwegian officers, according to NRK, and concluded that six officers were guilty of various crimes.

The charges for which the six officers were convicted

The six officers were convicted of sexual exploitation and sexual harassment, violating rules for communicating with local residents, violating rules of order and discipline, and violating rules for reporting violations to the United Nations.

The letter from the United Nations Secretariat stated the following:

• The United Nations wishes to inform the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations that the officers' conduct constitutes a violation of the high standards expected of persons serving with the United Nations. These individuals will not be deployed to any current or future United Nations peacekeeping missions.

The officers were informed of the UN's outcome.