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SOUTH SUDAN / UN POLICEWOMAN OF THE YEAR
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / UN POLICEWOMAN OF THE YEAR
TRT: 3:57
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 30 OCTOBER 2020, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
JANUARY 2014, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
1.Wide shot, UN cars driving through a destroyed Bentiu town
2.Med shot, displaced being assisted onto a truck
3.Wide shot, displaced in an open area
30 OCTOBER 2020, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
4.SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“I had no direction the first day of the crisis. The second day, of course, we were following the radio announcements and when they called upon the UNPOL officers to come out and help the South Sudanese who were running through the camp, I was one of the first females to just come out. I didn’t even have a protective jacket.”
DATE UNKNOWN, SOUTH SUDAN
5.Wide shot, Malambo talking to women in camp
30 OCTOBER 2020, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
6.SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“If me as a police officer who is in uniform, I tremble, I show fear, then there will be no hope for these South Sudanese women. So, I started advising them, encouraging them and telling them that this, it will all go.”
7.Close up, Malambo’s hands
8.SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“For them they were saying that their husbands were in the bush fighting and some of the women were even used as conveyer belts to take the ammunitions, to take the food to the people who were fighting.”
DATE UNKNOWN, SOUTH SUDAN
9.Photo, Malambo speaking to community group in the POC
10.Photo, Malambo speaking to community group in the POC
30 OCTOBER 2020, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
11.SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“Then I started giving them some experience which I gained from Liberia and how the Liberian women managed to bring peace in their own country. It wasn’t really the men, but it was the women who fought for peace in Liberia.
DATE UNKNOWN, SOUTH SUDAN
12.Photo, Malambo wearing mask
30 OCTOBER 2020, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
13.SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“Some of them they even started calling their husbands to stop the fight and we could see some of the soldiers coming into the camp and surrendering their arms to us and joining their families within the UNMISS compound.”
DATE UNKNOWN, SOUTH SUDAN
14.Med shot, Doreen seated talking with SSNPS, Inspector General of Police and UNMISS Gender Adviser
15.Pan left, Malambo walking
30 OCTOBER 2020, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
16.SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“When I ended my first mission in South Sudan, that was in 2018, I just stayed three months in my country and I was called back on quick return because of the work which was recognized on women’s empowerment.”
DATE UNKNOWN, SOUTH SUDAN
17.Photo, Malambo speaking
30 OCTOBER 2020, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
18.SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“When we completed the sign language [course] we were deployed in various provinces where they thought there were a lot of deaf people so that we could be of help to them.”
DATE UNKNOWN, SOUTH SUDAN
19.Photo, Doreen with community group and police in a workshop
20.Photo, Doreen seating with Nepalese police officers
30 OCTOBER 2020, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
21.SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“I got married at a certain point and had three children. I divorced because the man was abusing me and I didn’t want violence.”
DATE UNKNOWN, SOUTH SUDAN
22.Med shot, Malambo giving interview
30 OCTOBER 2020, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
23.SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“That’s what prompted me to be a mouthpiece for other women to fight this violence because it is not good at all. I faced it and I stood firm to fight it on my own.”
DATE UNKNOWN, SOUTH SUDAN
24.Wide shot, Doreen speaking to South Sudan National Policewomen
25.Med shot, South Sudan National Policewomen listening
30 OCTOBER 2020, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
26.SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“Stand up and support each other. Together we can make it.”
DATE UNKNOWN, SOUTH SUDAN
27.Med, Doreen singing along with other female UNPOL
The Chief Inspector Doreen Malambo of Zambia, currently serving in the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) was named the 2020 United Nations Woman Police Officer of the Year by the UN Department of Peace Operations. She will receive the award virtually at a ceremony on 3 November.
Chief Inspector Malambo currently serves as a Gender Adviser in Juba, South Sudan, where she was first deployed in 2016, a year marked with widespread violence in the country. Malambo witnessed the suffering and devastation firsthand.
SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“I had no direction the first day of the crisis. The second day, of course, we were following the radio announcements and when they called upon the UNPOL officers to come out and help the South Sudanese who were running through the camp, I was one of the first females to just come out. I didn’t even have a protective jacket.”
Working with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), she helped establish the Stand Up for Rights of Women and Girls initiative that has helped to reduce and prevent sexual and gender-based crime in South Sudan. As part of this project, Chief Inspector Malambo created a network of groups led by male local police officers to engage other men in the community to disseminate information and promote the protection and advancement of the rights of women and girls.
SOUNDBITE [English] Doreen Malambo, UNMISS Gender Adviser, 2020 UN Policewoman of the Year:
“When I ended my first mission in South Sudan, that was in 2018, I just stayed three months in my country, and I was called back on quick return because of the work which was recognized on women’s empowerment.”
Chief Inspector Malambo also contributed to UNMISS’ efforts to disseminate information on COVID-19 prevention to vulnerable communities, including those with disabilities.
Her previous UN experience includes a deployment with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) from 2008 to 2009, where she assisted the Liberia National Police to prevent and investigate sexual and gender-based violence and domestic violence. Her national experience spans 24 years with the Zambia Police Service.
The award will be presented during the 15th United Nations Police Week that will take place virtually from 2 to 6 November. At this annual event, heads of UN police components and police experts from peacekeeping operations, special political missions and regional offices and United Nations senior leadership discuss performance, conduct and discipline, protection of civilians, conflict prevention, sustaining peace and other topics and priorities affecting United Nations policing.
The United Nations Woman Police Officer of the Year award was established in 2011 to recognize the exceptional contributions of women police officers to UN peace operations and to promote the empowerment of women.
The award carries special significance this year when we mark the 20th anniversary of Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security and 60 years since the first deployment of United Nations police, to the United Nations Operation in the Congo.
About 11,000 UN police, 1,300 of whom are women, are deployed in 16 United Nations peace operations today to enhance international peace and security by supporting host countries in conflict, post-conflict and other crisis situations.
The United Nations’ goal is to deploy 30 percent women among individual police officers and 20 percent among formed police units by 2028.
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