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Aug 2

Fostering a healthy environment for peace to grow: UNDOF helps protect the environment in the Golan.

On World Environment Day, discover how the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) works to limit its environmental footprint. Various tree-planting activities were organized by UNDOF to leave a positive legacy for the host community. UNDOF has made significant progress in implementing the DOS Environmental Strategy for Peace Operations, demonstrating…

Environment

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On World Environment Day, discover how the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)…
On World Environment Day, discover how the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)…
Environment

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Aug 2

In conversation with Christine Fossen

From Norway to South Sudan, UN Police Commissioner, Christine Fossen, speaks to Gitika Bhardwaj for International Women’s Day about her experience in policing as part of a series exploring women in international affairs. Christine Fossen, you began your career in 1990 in Norway as a prosecutor for the police in Moss, before becoming deputy police commissioner in 1995 in Vadsø. In 1998, you became the youngest police commissioner in the country. …

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In conversation with Christine Fossen
In conversation with Christine Fossen

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Aug 2

In conversation with Maureen O’Brien

Major General Maureen O’Brien talks to Gitika Bhardwaj for International Women’s Day about working her way up through the army in Ireland, to becoming a leader at the UN, as part of a series exploring women in international affairs. Maureen O’Brien, born in Galway in Ireland, you joined the Irish army in 1981, shortly after women were allowed to join for the first time. You then became the first woman in the Irish army in numerous positions, including the first woman to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant…

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In conversation with Maureen O’Brien
In conversation with Maureen O’Brien

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Apr 17

Communities at the heart of efforts to address sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel

By: Eeman Malik “We know who to contact and how to file a complaint when we become aware of incidents of sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations personnel,” says Patience Mapenzi, a student in Bunia, located in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ms. Mapenzi is one of…

Community Networks

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Communities at the heart of efforts to address sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel
Communities at the heart of efforts to address sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel
Community Networks

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Mar 10

Women Hold Up Half the Sky

U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Africa Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee reflects on several inspiring examples of women overcoming differences and leading movements for peace, gender equality and women’s rights. In 2015, I became Ghana’s first female ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York. As we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, I reflect on this life-changing experience.

Women Supporting Women

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Women Hold Up Half the Sky
Women Hold Up Half the Sky
Women Supporting Women

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Mar 5

5 Ways that Arms Control and Disarmament can help to prevent Sexual Violence in Conflict

By Hana Salama On 7th March, the Security Council will host an Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), this time looking forward to the agenda’s 25th anniversary. Although women’s participation in peace and political processes has progressed, persistent challenges remain. For example, sexual violence in conflict was first…

Weapons

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5 Ways that Arms Control and Disarmament can help to prevent Sexual Violence in Conflict
5 Ways that Arms Control and Disarmament can help to prevent Sexual Violence in Conflict
Weapons

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Jan 24

Four ways UN Peacekeeping supports education for peace | #EducationDay

By: Maya Kelly Around the world, 222 million crisis-hit children are missing out on essential classroom time. Conflict, displacement and climate disasters are robbing children of the chance to study and unlock their dreams of becoming doctors, engineers, scientists, teachers, and more. A 2022 report released by the UN global…

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Four ways UN Peacekeeping supports education for peace | #EducationDay
Four ways UN Peacekeeping supports education for peace | #EducationDay

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Dec 29, 2022

Meet Atoch Dau Deng, the woman who brings justice to survivors in Abyei

Story by Nataliia Emelianova and Gaëlle Sundelin Up until 15 years ago, a woman who was a victim of rape or abuse would have no one to turn to in Abyei, a disputed area nestled between Sudan and South Sudan. Then came Atoch Dau Deng. Atoch had seen her home…

Women Peace And Security

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Meet Atoch Dau Deng, the woman who brings justice to survivors in Abyei
Meet Atoch Dau Deng, the woman who brings justice to survivors in Abyei
Women Peace And Security

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Dec 27, 2022

Five stories that inspired us in 2022

By: Stephanie Lemesianou | Editor: Urjasi Rudra Working towards peace has become more important but also more complex in a world with proliferating conflicts and deepening divisions. Despite the challenges, peacekeepers and the communities they serve have persevered to find common ground and practical solutions that made lives better and…

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Five stories that inspired us in 2022
Five stories that inspired us in 2022

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Dec 9, 2022

Seeking Peace: The Essential Work of Women Peacebuilders

By Ambassador Melanne Verveer As we approach Human Rights Day, I think of former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s historic pronouncement — “women’s rights are human rights” — at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995. Concluding this landmark event, 189 countries signed on to a Declaration…

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Seeking Peace: The Essential Work of Women Peacebuilders
Seeking Peace: The Essential Work of Women Peacebuilders

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