Peacekeeping without Accountability - Yale Law School

ConclusionUltimately, a claims commission is the only meaningful forum in which victimsmay press their claims. Furthermore, it is the very process that the U.N. itselfhas contemplated in all of its peacekeeping agreements, as well as in its foundingdocuments. Lastly, as Chapter IV emphasizes, it is also a concrete example of theU.N. fulfilling its obligation to provide access to remedies for violations of humanrights, especially when, as here, the U.N.’s actions led to massive amounts ofpreventable death and illness. However, while establishing a claims commissionis necessary for the U.N. to meet its obligations under the SOFA, it is neither asufficient nor complete remedy for the U.N.’s introduction of cholera into Haiti.Chapter IV addresses the broader range of reparations to which victims of thecholera epidemic are entitled under international human rights law.33the requirement of a claims commission