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UN peacekeepers conduct a patrol in the volatile neighbourhood of Bel-Air in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince in April 2004. © Sophia Paris / UN / MINUSTAH, 2004

The United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) will complete its mandate on 15 October 2019, bringing to a close 15 consecutive years of peacekeeping in the country. MINUJUSTH, which started operations in…
UN peacekeepers conduct a patrol in the volatile neighbourhood of Bel-Air in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince in April 2004. © Sophia Paris / UN / MINUSTAH, 2004

The United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) will complete its mandate on 15 October 2019, bringing to a close 15 consecutive years of peacekeeping in the country. MINUJUSTH, which started operations in…
Eight women, among them Mima Gentile (Canada), Yousra Ben Belgacem (Tunisia), Winifred Chigozie Ezeanyika (Nigeria), Afodor Ablavi Koudadje (Togo) and Karine Lessard (Canada), shared their experience as women peacekeepers with MINUJUSTH. © UNPOL Djibrilla M. Hafizou / UN / MINUJUSTH, 2019

In all fields of peacekeeping, women peacekeepers perform the same roles, to the same standards and under the same difficult conditions, as their male counterparts. Several members of the Police component of the United…