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STORY: UN / FEMALE RECRUITMENT
TRT: 2.11
SOURCE: UNTV / MONUC / MINUSTAH / UNMIL
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 OCTOBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
20 OCTOBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Close up, photographer
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ann-Marie Orler, UN Deputy Police Adviser:
“The aim is to have member states raising the number of female officers serving in United Nations peacekeeping operations from today’s eight percent to twenty percent in five years. We encourage member states to establish a policy that sets a percentage of their contribution of female police officers at a minimum at the same percentage of female officers they have in their national police, and we have learned that Liberia already have taken this on board and have set this target for the national police. The long term goal is of course to have fifty – fifty.”
5. Close up reporter
6. Wide shot, dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ann-Marie Orler, UN Deputy Police Adviser:
“It is crucial to have more female officers in the peacekeeping work. The reason being, very often when we have violations in the local population it is women and children who are the victims, and very often these crimes are carried out by men in uniform. Building the trust to get the women to speak and reach out to the local society needs other women in uniform who can build this trust and confidence in the population.”
FILE – MONUC - 14 APRIL 2009, RUTSHURU, NORTH KIVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
8. Pan right, soldiers at ease and female officer giving instructions
9. Zoom out, soldier stopping UN truck and talking to soldiers
FILE – MINUSTAH - 12-18 MAY 2009, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
10. Med shot, female officer putting on a floating device
11. Med shot, soldiers on a Zodiac
FILE - UNMIL - 16-17 APRIL 2009, BUCHANAN TOWN, GRAND BASSA COUNTY, LIBERIA
12. Tilt up, female soldier with gun
13. Pan left, male and female soldiers
14. Tilt up, two female soldiers in formation
15. Close up, soldiers in formation
16. Tilt up, female soldier riding a vehicle
A senior United Nations official today (20 October) welcomed a recent landmark agreement with the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) to strengthen police units in peacekeeping missions around the world, and called on member states to contribute more women officers to those operations.
The new agreement between the UN and INTERPOL aims to boost policing cooperation in restoring stability in post-conflict areas, UN Deputy Police Adviser Ann-Marie Orler told reporters in New York.
In August, the Police Division of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) launched a drive to recruit more police and more female police officers, targeting an increase in the number of women from eight percent today to 20 percent in 2014.
Orler said that member states are encouraged to establish a policy that sets their contribution of female police officers at least at the same percentage rate as they have in their national police, and highlighted that Liberia has already “taken this on board”.
She added that the long term goal is to have a “fifty – fifty” male to female ratio.
The Police Adviser stressed the importance of having more female officers in peacekeeping, saying that women and children in conflict zones often are the victims of crimes “carried out by men in uniform” and female officers can help build “trust and confidence in the population”.
There are currently around 12,000 policemen and -women, from over 100 countries, serving in 17 UN missions, compared to 2,400 a decade ago. The Security Council has authorized the deployment of a total of 15,000 UN police to peacekeeping operations.
