"PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS"

Lieutenant-General Shailesh Tinaikar is retiring from his post as Force Commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have a long and decorated military career. UNMISS

During a three-day peace and reconciliation conference recently concluded in Juba, South Sudan, Jeriel Francis, Minister of Peace Building of Central Equatoria State, said, “we must aspire to start writing a positive history about ourselves.” UNMISS

Prospects for women peacebuilders vastly worse than before pandemic as spoilers ramp up action aimed at silencing their voices, human rights chief warns Security Council.

Informal comments to the media by Anniken Huitfeldt, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway, and Kaavya Asoka, Executive Director of NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, following the Security Council meeting on Women, Peace and Security.

Norway will hold an open debate to address how the intimidation of and violence and reprisals against women – because of their engagement in peace and security processes – threaten our shared goal of ensuring women's full, equal and meaningful participation in all stages of peace processes.

A decade after civil conflict erupted in Mali, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the country, El-Ghassim Wane, told the Security Council that “every effort” should be made to resolve current challenges linked to the transition process, as “a protracted impasse will make it much harder to find a consensual way out.” UNIFEED

From peacekeeping, to the protection of refugees and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

Approving $3.12 billion programme budget, General Assembly adopts 26 resolutions, 2 decisions, as main part of seventy-sixth session concludes.

UN Special Adviser for Libya Stephanie Williams called upon the concerned institutions in the country to “honour and support the will of the 2.8 million Libyans who registered to vote,” according to a UN spokesperson. UNIFEED

Security Council resolves to consider during mandate renewals role of peace operations in curbing illicit weapons flow, adopting resolution 2616 (2021) by recorded vote.