CARABINIERI

Entra nella Stazione On-Line dei Carabinieri
Ministero della Difesa

Eventi

New York - UN Gender's Workshop

New York,31 May - 4 June 2010

The meeting Following up on a "Global Effort" launched the last August 2009 aimed to increase the number of female police officer serving in the UN peacekeeping missions a workshop was held on 31st May - 4th June in New York at the UN HQ.

Police gender focal points from UN peace missions, member states police gender offices from Ireland, Liberia, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Nigeria as well as EUPOL and CoESPU representatives had worked for seven days to help develop a "UN Police Standardized Best Practices Toolkit on Gender and Policing in Peacekeeping Operations".

On the 4 June, Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon stressed that "by empowering women within the UN we are not just upholding the principles for which we stand we makes ourselves a better organization".