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Olukemi Ibikunle of Nigeria wins the 2025 United Nations Trailblazer Award for Women Justice and Corrections Officers
New York, 8 October 2025 – The United Nations Department of Peace Operations has announced that Olukemi Ibikunle, a corrections officer from Nigeria serving with the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the…
International Day of UN Peacekeepers: “Investing in Peace Around the World.”
The theme for the 2017 International Day of UN Peacekeepers is “Investing in Peace Around the World.” The Day offers a chance to pay tribute to the uniformed and civilians personnel’s invaluable contribution to the work of…
International Day of UN Peacekeepers: Honoring Our Heroes
As the size, complexity and accomplishments of peacekeeping have grown, unfortunately so have the risks as the ‘Blue Helmets’ are increasingly and directly targeted. Last year, the list of fallen numbered 129. These selfless…
UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial Conference, Vancouver, Canada
Canada hosted the 2017 UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial on November 14-15 in Vancouver, British-Columbia. The conference was the largest gathering of Defence ministers dedicated to UN Peacekeeping with more than 550…
Leaders' Summit on Peacekeeping
This year's Leaders' Summit was a historic moment for UN Peacekeeping with unprecedented levels of support coming from all regions of the globe.
Secretary-General visit to Central African Republic
The trip draws attention to the fragile situation in the Central African Republic (CAR). Communal tensions are increasing leading to violence and a deterioration in the humanitarian situation. More than 600,000 people have…
International Day of Peacekeepers: Together for Peace
Since its inception in 1948, the UN has established 69 peacekeeping operations – in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The number of people who have been UN peacekeepers — more than 1 million — far…
International Day of Peacekeepers: A Force for the Future
As the world is confronted with new challenges. Un peacekeeping is evolving to meet these challenges. A global force for peace: We deploy peacekeepers from more than 120 countries. find out more about the day 2014 theme: UN…
International Day of Peacekeepers: Adapting to New Challenges
UN Peacekeeping is being given new mandates to meet new challenges. We are being asked to deploy in new operating environments such as Mali, a vast desert nation where international terrorists continue to threaten national…