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UN Study – Greater Action needed to include Women in Peacekeeping
Greater Action needed to include women in peacekeeping – UN study Female police officers serving in UN peacekeeping operations in Haiti February 2011 – Ten years after the Security Council...
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UN Women Celebrates Launch as Powerful Driver of Women’s Equality TODAY!
UN Women Celebrates Launch as Powerful Driver of Women’s Equality On 24 February 2011, UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet spoke at the celebration of the launch of UN Women, the UN’s...
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Margot Wallström, UN envoy hails Congolese to pursue rape cases …
UN envoy hails Congolese move to pursue rape cases against top military officers Special envoy Margot Wallström, visiting the DRC in October 2010, listens to the public about rapes The...
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PMO: Canada-Kuwait Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement
PM announces signing of new investment agreement with Kuwait Government delivers on commitment to create the right conditions for Canadian businesses to compete globally Kuwaiti Prime Minister...
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‘Women, Peace and Security’ ~ Michelle Bachelet speaks in Norway
Women, Peace and Security Remarks of Michelle Bachelet United Nations Under-Secretary-General Executive Director of UN Women at panel discussion on ‘Women, Peace and Security’. Litteraturhuset Oslo,...
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ADELE BUTLER – Women of Spirit: Attack on Female Protesters
Attack on Female Protesters I was shocked when I read about the attack on the female protesters in the Ivory Coast. Thousands of women were protesting because of President Laurent Gbagobo’s...
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UN peacekeeping, Women on the front lines to End Violence Against Women
March 2013 – “I know what it means to lose your house, to be looted. To look a child in the eye and say, ‘If they come for me, you need to run’,” said the newly appointed United Nations Special...
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29 May is the, International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Peacekeepers Day 2013 On 29 May, UN offices, alongside Member States and non-governmental organizations, hold solemn events to honour fallen peacekeepers. Since the first UN peacekeeping mission was...
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University for Peace course Costa Rica (July 22-27, 2013)
Headquartered in Costa Rica, the United Nations-mandated University for Peace was established in December 1980 as a Treaty Organization by the UN General Assembly. As determined in the Charter of the...
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VDAY ‘Takes Action’ on Syria!
V-Day Statement Against Possible U.S. Military Intervention in Syria The situation in Syria is dire with 100,000 dead, over 2 million having fled the country (half of them children), and 4.25 million...
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CANADA, further support to those affected by the violence in Syria
PM announces further support to those affected by the violence in Syria September 6, 2013 St. Petersburg, Russia Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced further Canadian support to help address...
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Your Plans for International Day of Peace?
What are You doing for International Day of Peace? This year, 2013, the International Day of Peace is on a Saturday, September 21st, and special activities and celebrations will take place all across...
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International Day of Non-Violence celebrated OCT 2
International Day of Non-Violence The International Day of Non-Violence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy...
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Say Thanks on International Day of UN Peacekeepers
Earlier this year, I visited the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, where I met a mother who fled South Sudan with her four children amid the country’s ongoing violence. Sadly, her story is not unique....
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Women of Peacekeeping celebrating #WPD2015
Women in Peacekeeping As peacekeeping has evolved to encompass a broader humanitarian approach, women have become increasingly part of the peacekeeping family. Women are deployed in all areas –...
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