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First United Nations Trailblazer Award Ceremony

7 June 2022

Téné Maïmouna Zoungrana from Burkina Faso receives the first ever United Nations Trailblazer Award for Women Justice and Corrections Officers at a ceremony at UN Headquarters. Ms. Zoungrana serves with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and is the creator of a women-only rapid intervention team who leads riot control activities inside the Central African Republic's biggest all male high-security prison.

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, speaks during the ceremony.

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