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STORY: UN / WOMAN POLICE OFFICER OF THE YEAR
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 NOVEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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2.SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“Chief Inspector Doreen Malambo has been selected for her outstanding achievements during her service with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. She has demonstrated exceptional commitment to gender equality, in particular to advancing women and girls by empowering them to claim their rights to enhance their full participation in social political and economic life.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Doreen Malambo of Zambia, Chief Inspector, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“As a female police officer, I am sure I speak on behalf of the most of that experience has been life changing in many ways. Apart from new knowledge and skills attained, the opportunity to break ceilings, given leadership positions to explore our full potentials and supported are commendable.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Doreen Malambo of Zambia, Chief Inspector, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“As women officers, we can no longer afford to remain as hidden figures in the implementation of women, peace and security agenda. We are called to save with capacities to empower hosts nation police women, vulnerable women and girls that need our voices and expertise to advocate role model and intervene where we are needed.”
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Chief Inspector Doreen Malambo of Zambia, currently serving in the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) was awarded the 2020 United Nations Woman Police Officer of the Year.
Speaking at a virtual ceremony today (03 Nov), UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said, “Chief Inspector Doreen Malambo has been selected for her outstanding achievements during her service with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, adding that “she has demonstrated exceptional commitment to gender equality, in particular to advancing women and girls by empowering them to claim their rights to enhance their full participation in social political and economic life.”
Receiving her awards at the virtural ceremony, Doreen Malambo said, “as a female police officer, I am sure I speak on behalf of the most of that experience has been life changing in many ways.”
She said, “apart from new knowledge and skills attained, the opportunity to break ceilings, given leadership positions to explore our full potentials and supported are commendable.”
Malambo also said, “as women officers, we can no longer afford to remain as hidden figures in the implementation of women, peace and security agenda. We are called to save with capacities to empower hosts nation police women, vulnerable women and girls that need our voices and expertise to advocate role model and intervene where we are needed.”
Chief Inspector Malambo currently serves as a Gender Adviser in Juba, South Sudan. 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.
Chief Inspector Malambo also contributed to UNMISS’ efforts to disseminate information on COVID-19 prevention to vulnerable communities, including those with disabilities.
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.
Chief Inspector Doreen Malambo’s 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.
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% women among individual police officers and 20% among formed police units by 2028.
