Peacekeeping news

By Pamela Caracciolo The world is facing the COVID-19 pandemic, an invisible enemy that is transcending race, religion, geography and gender. Currently, I am combatting this difficult situation as a UN Peacekeeper with…

Court hearings for more than 118 young people on remand for alleged criminal activity have been completed at the Juvenile Reformatory Centre in Juba. The hearings began on 25 March as part of a national effort to reduce the…

Catherine Amboga-Rimmele, a UN Volunteer working with the Civil Affairs Team at the UNMISS Field Office in Malakal started an innovative project to produce face masks with the help of her colleagues from UNMISS as well as…

UNIFIL Spanish Contingent donated 16 laptops and four boxes of clothes to Social Development Centres (SDCs) of the south-eastern Lebanese villages of El Adeisse, El Khiam, Majdal Silim and Meiss Ej Jebel, yesterday. The…

A patrol of military and civilian peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan has reached communities in Pieri, in northern Jonglei, who were affected by a series of intercommunal clashes at the…

Indian peacekeepers based in Malakal and serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan have organized a free veterinary and vaccination camp to maintain the health of thousands of vital cattle in the area. They also…

As custodians of the buffer zone UNFICYP is committed to minimizing our carbon footprint and preserving our shared environment. With the onset of a hot dry summer in Cyprus UN peacekeepers from the UK clear patrol tracks of…

Meet Constantia, a private educator living in Deryneia; She highlights the importance of supporting women who are staying at home as care providers. Since the health crisis began Constantia has been with her two children (3…

Women are playing a disproportionately large role worldwide in preventing and responding to the Covid-19 crisis. Globally, women constitute 70% of the health workforce. Didem’s story is a reminder of the essential…

Pacification of Ituri : Leila Zerrougui interacts with national members of parliament from this province. Poto MONUSCO/ChernoJallow The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in the Democratic Republic…

UNIFIL peacekeepers from the Republic of Korea today handed over a public water purification plant, which they built over the past two months, to the local community in Abbasiyah, Tyre district in south-western Lebanon. The…

Many survivors of the widespread and pervasive sexual violence that has plagued South Sudan throughout its five-year civil war suffer not only from the sexual assault, but also an inability to access the health care they need…