Indian peacekeeper wins UN gender advocate award

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Indian peacekeeper Major Radhika Sen wins UN gender advocate award.

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Major Sen received the gender advocate award from UN Secretary-General António Guterres last week during a ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York to celebrate International Day of UN Peacekeepers. He described her service as “a true credit to the United Nations as a whole.” 

While receiving the award, Major Sen – who graduated as a biotech engineer and was pursuing her master’s from IIT Bombay when she decided to join India’s armed forces – said “gender-sensitive peacekeeping is everybody’s business, not just us women.”

The peacekeeper was involved or led numerous initiatives while serving in the DRC. She facilitated English classes for children and vocational training for displaced adults, and she empowered women in one village to come together as a group to advocate for their rights and raise their security and humanitarian concerns in local peace discussions. 

Major Sen is the second Indian peacekeeper to receive the UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year award, following Major Suman Gawani, who was a co-recipient in 2019. 

India has a long history of supporting female peacekeeping and was the first country to send an all-female contingent to a UN force, in Liberia in 2007.

 

 

Edited September 27 by Ajay0

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