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STORY: UN / WOMEN IN PEACEKEEPING
TRT: 04:28
SOURCE: UNIFEED / UNSOM / UNMISS / UNIFIL / MINUSMA / UNFICYP / MONUSCO
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: FILE
FILE – UNSOM - OCTOBER 2019, SOMALIA
1. Med shot, United Nations Guard Unit (UNGU) waiting for arrival of Deputy-Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed
2. Pan left, Mohammed observing UNGU
3. Med shot, UNGU guards salute
FILE – UNMISS – DATE UNKNOWN, SOUTH SUDAN
4. Various shots, peacekeepers from Nepal at teaching hygiene at school in South Sudan Date unknown
FILE – UNIFIL - MAY 2020, LEBANON
5. Various shots, women peacekeepers during COVID 19 response
FILE – UNMISS – NOVEMBER 2021, SOUTH SUDAN
6. Med shot UNMISS Norwegian peacekeeper greeting community members
7. Various shots, Zimbabwean and Sierra Leone peacekeepers community liaison / policing gender unit
FILE – MINUSMA - DATE UNKNOWN, MALI
8. Various shots, women peacekeepers
FILE – UNFICYP - AUGUST 2021, CYPRUS
9. Zoom out, Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix meeting Police Advisor, Satu Koivu, UNPOL
10. Med shot, Koivu interacting with Pakistani peacekeeper
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Satu Koivu, Police Advisor, UNPOL UNFICYP:
“We already have 20 percent of police officers who are female, so there has been quite a big increase.”
12. Wide shot, Koivu and other peacekeepers walking
FILE – MONUSCO - 02 APRIL 2022, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
13. Various shots, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Bintou Keita depositing flower wreath
FILE - 09 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY
14. UPSOUND (French) Bintou Keita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO):
“We should welcome the publication of the electoral calendar, which sets the presidential and legislative elections on 20 December 2023”
FILE – MONUSCO - 02 APRIL 2022, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
15. Med shot, Lacroix during meeting
FILE - 13 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General, UN Peace Operations:
“Gender parity remains a top priority for UN Peacekeeping and our partners. We are working to advance the role of women in peacekeeping and create the right conditions for them to contribute fully at all strategic, operational, and tactical levels and in all roles.”
FILE – UNIFIL- JANUARY 2023, LEBANON
17. Med shot, Lacroix greeting Ghanaian peacekeeper
FILE – MONUSCO - 02 APRIL 2022, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
18. Wide shot, Lacroix during ceremony
FILE – UNIFIL- JANUARY 2023, LEBANON
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General, UN Peace Operations:
“More women in peacekeeping, means a more effective peacekeeping.”
FILE – UNIFIL – 2022, LEBANON
20. Various shots, Ghanaian GHANBATT 89 battalion during ceremony
From conducting patrols, to providing medical assistance and interacting with the communities, women are critical to United Nations Peacekeeping.
Women peacekeepers engage with communities to prevent conflict, promote human rights and contribute to lasting peace. They are deployed in all areas – police, military and civilian – and have made an impact on peacekeeping environments, including in supporting the role of women in building peace and protecting women's rights.
In all fields of peacekeeping, women peacekeepers have proven that they can perform the same roles, to the same standards and under the same difficult conditions, as their male counterparts. It is an operational imperative that we recruit and retain female peacekeepers.
There has been an increase in the number of women military, police and civilian peacekeepers overall.
In 1993, women made up 1 percent of deployed uniformed personnel. By 2020, out of approximately 95,000 peacekeepers, women constituted 4.8 percent of military contingents, 10.9 percent of formed police units and 34 percent of justice and corrections government-provided personnel in UN Peacekeeping missions.
The 2028 target for women serving in military contingents is 15 percent and 25 percent for military observers and staff officers. The 2028 target for women serving in formed police units is 20 percent, and 30 percent for individual police officers.
While the UN encourages and advocates for the deployment of women to uniformed functions, the responsibility for deployment of women in the police and military lies with Member States.
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