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United Nations Peacekeeping
Rounok Jahan has been breaking down gender barriers her whole life.
First by deciding as a child that she would join the male-dominated police force in her home country of Bangladesh.
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Rounok Jahan, a Bangladeshi UN police officer serving with UNMISS, dares to be different. She hopes you do, too.
Briefing by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mr. David Shearer at the 23 January 2020 board meeting of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC).
Representatives from the Guit and Rubkona communities in Unity discuss how to prevent intercommunal conflicts related to cattle migration and scarce resources.
Vera Ayensu, a UN police officer from Ghana, instructs her colleagues in Wau.
The Force Commander of the UN peacekeeping mission on a recent visit to Koch in the Unity region.
Cattle and a lack of pastures and water points are at the centre of intercommunal clashes in the Greater Lakes region.
A much-improved security situations means that women (soldiers and/or wives of male troops) can move around freely and thus go about their hard work.
UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 262 - 15 Jan 2020 to 23 Jan 2020
Bridges are lifelines, connecting people. This one in Lakes has been repaired by UNMISS engineers.
The lecturing man has a valid point: children are not soldiers.