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Rwandan Women Heed Call for Peacekeepers

Nearly a third of Rwanda’s 490 deployed police personnel are women, exceeding the UN goal to raise the number of female police officers serving in peacekeeping missions to 20 percent by 2014.

  • Rwanda:   More Women Heed Call for Peacekeeping

    New Times, 9 October 2012

    For the past few years, Rwanda has been making global headlines for its outstanding role in providing the much-needed females in various peacekeeping missions in the world. Read more »

The New Times

Inspector General Emanuel Gasana briefs female peacekeepers before their departure for Darfur.

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