{"id":127985,"date":"2023-01-07T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T06:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=127985"},"modified":"2023-01-07T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T06:53:23","slug":"india-deploys-a-platoon-of-women-peacekeepers-to-the-un-mission-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-deploys-a-platoon-of-women-peacekeepers-to-the-un-mission-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"India deploys a platoon of women peacekeepers to the UN Mission in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>India deploys a platoon of women peacekeepers to the UN Mission in Sudan: <\/strong>India deployed a platoon of\u00a0women peacekeepers\u00a0in the\u00a0Abyei region of Sudan\u00a0on 6 January as part of the Indian battalion in the\u00a0United Nations Interim Security Force (UNISFA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An overview of the news<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since sending its first all-female force to Liberia in 2007, this is India&#8217;s largest single contingent of women peacekeepers in a UN mission. In 2007,&nbsp;India became the first country&nbsp;to deploy an entirely women contingent for a&nbsp;UN peacekeeping mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-january-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">January 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police units formed in Liberia provided 24-hour guard duty, night patrols in the capital Monrovia, and helped increase the capacity of the Liberian Police. The Indian contingent, comprising&nbsp;two officers and 25 other ranks, will form part of an engagement platoon and specialise in community outreach; they will also undertake extensive security work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>United Nations Interim Security Force (UNISFA)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>By adopting resolution 1990 on June 27, 2011, the United Nations Security Council swiftly responded to the deteriorating situation in the Sudanese Abyei region by forming UNISFA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The UN Security Council was deeply concerned by the violence, rising tensions and population displacement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UNISFA was established after the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement (SPLM) reached an agreement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About UN Peacekeeping<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>UN peacekeeping began in&nbsp;1948&nbsp;when the UN Security Council authorised the deployment of UN military observers in the Middle East.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It helps to bring countries from conflict to a difficult path of peace.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It deploys soldiers and police from all over the world for peacekeeping.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India is one of the largest military and police contributors to UN peacekeeping operations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are currently more than&nbsp;5,700 Indian peacekeepers&nbsp;deployed in&nbsp;nine of the 12 UN peacekeeping missions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India deploys a platoon of women peacekeepers to the UN Mission in Sudan: India deployed a platoon of\u00a0women peacekeepers\u00a0in the\u00a0Abyei region of Sudan\u00a0on 6 January as part of the Indian battalion in the\u00a0United Nations Interim Security Force (UNISFA). An overview of the news Since sending its first all-female force to Liberia in 2007, this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":127986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4996],"tags":[4916],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-127985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2023","tag-national-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127987,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127985\/revisions\/127987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127985"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=127985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}