“My mother was my inspiration and always treated us, her daughters, in exactly the same way as our brothers,” says Anastasie Nyirigira Mukangarambe, as she reminisces about her childhood in Rwanda.

Girls from four schools in Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State have had their awareness of the risks of sexual abuse raised by a group of visiting police officers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.

It is not commonplace for women to be part of India’s infantry, and that goes for the contingent of peacekeepers based in Malakal as well, where more than eight hundred soldiers were recently awarded medals for their service for the United Nations Mis