UN Department of Field Support
- Opinion by James Cunliffe
- • January 9, 2018
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The 15 deaths and 43 injuries to United Nations troop personnel in the North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in December would not, sadly, have surprised those of us who have served in peace enforcement…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 6, 2015
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Almost five years after a rampaging cholera epidemic coursed through the Artibonite River region of Haiti and moved rapidly around the country, the United Nations, which acknowledges that a deadly strain of the disease originated in or around a…
- Categories: UN Agencies, UN Peacekeeping
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 18, 2015
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While restructuring at the top of the United Nations and better strategies and tactics for troops on the ground are issues provoking discussion and controversy after the recent release of a report by a high-level panel on current and…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Steven Edwards
- • September 29, 2014
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It may seem that major current triumphs are hard to find when it comes to the work of United Nations Peacekeeping Department and its blue-helmeted military, police and civilian units, which have hit a record high number of 130,000…