An Egyptian female peacekeeper was honored by the Force Commander of the United Nations Organization for Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) with the United Nations Medal at the city of Goma, according to the United Nations Information Centre in Cairo. The female peacekeeper was among 51 military personnel from different countries at the ceremony. Egypt’s Ministry of Interior has been increasing the number of women joining the peacekeeping forces throughout the years, as Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry stated earlier in 2018, with around 3,000 Egyptian men and women spread across the Congo, Mali, the Central African Republic and Darfur. Nahed Salah is the first Egyptian woman to join the UN peacekeeping forces in 2014, in which she served as the head of the police department at the UN Peacekeeping Mission to Morocco. Her main tasks included protecting local women from sexual violence and providing assistance to the survivors of sexual violence, in compliance with United Nations standard for their missions in troubled areas. Women currently represent only 4 per cent of the more than 80,000 UN Peacekeepers, despite their key role in preventing sexual violence…
Egyptian Female Peacekeeper Honoured With UN Medal For Her Work in Congo
April 9, 2019
