United Nations Peacekeeping

Issues

• Military
• Police
• Rule of law
  • Justice
  • Corrections
• Civil affairs
• Electoral assistance
• Security sector reform
• Mine action
• Gender and peacekeeping
  • Where we work
  • Women, peace and security
  • Women in peacekeeping
• Field support
• Conduct and discipline
• Protection of civilians
• Environment and sustainability
  • Conflict and resources
  • Our approach
  • Sharing best practice
• Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration
• Children in conflict
• Human rights

Where we work

Our gender teams work tirelessly to make sure that the voices of women are included in all areas of peacekeeping.

There are eight senior gender advisers in peacekeeping operations around the world. Their work includes supporting local women to participate in peace processes, protecting women and girls from sexual violence and engaging women’s voices in legal and judicial procedures. More recently, Women’s Protection Advisors have started being deployed with a specific mandate to address conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) - whereby sexual violence is used as a tactic of war, and as noted by the Security Council, is qualifiable as a crime against humanity, war crime and a constituent act of genocide.

Our gender advisers are in the following UN Peacekeeping missions:

• UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)
• UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)
• UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
• UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI)
• UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
• African Union-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID)
• UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 
• UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)

Additionally, there are gender focal points in the remaining peacekeeping missions.

Gender work supported by UN Peacekeeping

Hover over the pins on the map to find out where we are assisting or have recently assisted in gender work.

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