India essential to UN peacekeeping, together with its girls peacekeepers

The Delhi convention Lacroix attended, with the theme of ‘Girls in Peacekeeping: A International South Perspective’, was organised by the ministry of exterior affairs in collaboration with the ministry of defence and the Centre for United Nations Peacekeeping (CUNPK).

It introduced collectively girls peacekeepers from 35 troop-contributing international locations (TCCs) from the International South, to debate the evolving challenges in peacekeeping and the vital position girls play in advancing peace and safety.

Lacroix added that the difficulty of ladies in peacekeeping has two dimensions.

“It is extra girls in peacekeeping, which ensures a simpler peacekeeping, and it is extra empowerment of ladies via peacekeeping, when it comes to the position of ladies in political processes, their empowerment, ensuring that they’re half and parcel of all these peacebuilding and peacekeeping efforts,” he stated.

Noting that “there’s nothing ideological on this”, the UN peacekeeping chief stated it’s “simply plain realism that girls should be totally concerned and collaborating in all these efforts, and that is why we’re persevering with our effort to have extra girls in peacekeeping.”

Accompanied by performing navy adviser of the UN Main Normal Cheryl Pearce on the briefing, Lacroix famous that the world organisation is “doing good when it comes to the numbers of ladies peacekeepers “though we nonetheless have extra to do”.

“However sure, we’d wish to have extra senior feminine generals making use of for positions of pressure commander and deputy pressure commander. It’s a piece in progress,” he added.

India was the primary nation to deploy an all-women fashioned police unit to Liberia in 2007. In January 2023, India additionally deployed an all-women’s platoon of peacekeepers as a part of its battalion to the UN Mission in Abyei, the only largest deployment of ladies peacekeepers lately.