Date: 14 October, 2020
Time: 11:00 To 6:00 pm
Venue: Virtual Zoom Platform
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This panel will conduct a discussion on the ongoing challenges women face in the UN peacekeeping operations, accountability, and the current mechanisms for improvements. It will focus on the present and future challenges. Women peacekeeper’s role in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations is instrumental in promoting Human Rights and protecting civilians, encouraging local women to participate in services, strengthening community relations, reducing incidences of sexual and gender-based violence. Such involvement encourages women to play a significant part in achieving sustainable peace and political solutions. In this connection, building the local capacity of developing community-based approaches among women would bridge differences and eliminate stereotyping that discriminate against women and marginalize them. Women have made a positive global impact on peacekeeping environments and proven their capability to fulfill the same duties. They can also live up to high expectations and show resilience under difficult conditions as their male colleagues in all fields of peacekeeping. However, currently, only 6% of all uniformed Military, Police, Justice, and correction personnel in the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operation’s field missions are women. Women peacekeepers face a range of challenges in the field to get equal opportunities.
The United Nations, through the implementation of the UN Security Council resolution 1325 (UNSCR1325), and United Nations Security Council resolution 2538 on women and peacekeeping, as well as the Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) Declaration of Shared Commitments, encourages the role and contribution of women in the peacekeeping operations to achieve gender equality and opportunity in the communities it serves