Peacekeeping News

International Women’s Day Every year on 8 March, International Women’s Day is an opportunity for communities around the world to mark women’s achievements, raise awareness against bias and help to forge a more gender balanced…

UNIFIL’s Indian peacekeepers organized a training session with the aim of raising awareness about preventing breast cancer among the women of Shab’a in south-eastern Lebanon earlier this week. The training session, conducted…

UNMISS peacekeepers in Wau have been deployed to Kuarjena county to support the government in deescalating the ongoing insecurity caused by clashes between herders from Tonj and the host community in the area. The move was…

Today, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) marked the 41st anniversary of its establishment with a ceremony at its Headquarters in Naqoura. This was to highlight the commitment of the international community…

The taboo around gender-based violence that still exists in Kosovo was recognized by many people during a Kosovo-wide tour of an UNMIK-produced documentary on the relationship between property rights and domestic violence…

On 14 March 2019, UNAMID Sector East in collaboration with High Council for Youth and Sport in East Darfur State held a graduation ceremony after a three-month training for 100 at-risk youth in different fields of vocational…

UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 230

Amid the whirlwind, omni-entering dust, the internally displaced persons milling about at the Bentiu UN protection site and the police officers patrolling the area, there is a distinct and rather pleasant whiff in the…

A badminton champion. A talented chef. A first-time parade commander. These men, serving with the Indian Horizontal and Mechanical Engineering Company (HMEC), received medals of honor for their service in the United Nations…

MONUSCO's first female military observer from China, Major YANG HUAN HUAN. Photo MONUSCO I came to Congo 10 months ago. While in Congo, I was moved by many stories every day, especially when interacting with the local people…

As a team of peacekeepers from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) entered Kajo-Keji town, scenes and smells of burnt houses and bat urine hung heavy in the air. The same could be said of the void left behind…

UNIFIL’s naval peacekeepers from its Maritime Task Force (MTF) carried out two exercises to enhance their interoperability and the capability of the Lebanese Navy off the coast of Beirut earlier this week. The “boarding”…