Peacekeeping news

The coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp focus the differentiated impacts that COVID-19 is having on women, including new obstacles to their meaningful participation in peace processes. At a virtual roundtable…

MONUSCO strengthens the operational capacities of the FARDC to fight against armed groups in Ituri. Photo MONUSCO/Jean-Tobie Okala Fuel, food rations and water: Those are the items donated by MONUSCO to the Armed Forces of…

UNIFIL Sector West Commander Brig. Gen. Diego Fulco (right) with the Mayor of Tyre Hassan Dbouk during a donation ceremony on 8 June 2020. (Photo: Major Igor Piani / UNIFIL) UNIFIL Italian peacekeepers donated 210 PCR kits…

The Maritime Task Force (MTF) of UNIFIL is the first and only naval operation of the UN Peacekeeping globally. For over 13 years six ships, one each from Bangladesh, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Indonesia and Turkey -- the task…

As the world's population recovers from the greatest health crisis of this age, the environment is also recovering - with this year's World Environment Day happening while Kosovo's youngest members of society breathe in some…

Nature is sending us a clear message. We are harming the natural world – to our own detriment. Habitat degradation and biodiversity loss areaccelerating. Climate disruption is getting worse. Fires, floods, droughts and…

As a spike in legal problems presents itself as another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic, a legal aid centre funded by UNMIK has found innovative ways to help people in urgent need of legal advice. Kosovo Law Institute’s…

Elsie Project Team in Kaga Bandoro, MINUSCA The Elsie Initiative project by the UN Office of Supply Chain Management aims to improve camp layouts, accommodations, bathrooms, recreational facilities etc. to enhance women’s…

PKD 2020 - Women in Peacekeeping, A Key to Peace UNGSC devised a new way of celebrating the International Day of UN Peacekeepers on 29 May 2020 on the theme “Women in Peacekeeping – A Key to Peace”. An intense programme in…

WIEM CHADLIA JRAD : Overflowing energy in the service of the United Nations Police in the DRC | PORTRAIT | Wiem Chadlia Jrad is from Tunisia. This 47-year-old police commissioner has long cherished the hope of working for the…

United Nations Peacekeepers in Birao commemorated the International Day of Peacekeepers on 29 May with a march past by MINUSCA Zambian contingent and Central African Republic army (FACA) troops, under the theme ‘’Women in…

Yes, we need more women in peacekeeping The General Assembly, in its resolution 57/129, designated 29 May as the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. This is the date when in 1948 the first UN peacekeeping…