Zambia’s Chief Inspector Doreen Malambo, who is currently serving in the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), is this year’s United Nations Women’s Police Officer of the Year, the UN Department for Peace has announced.
Chief Inspector Malambo is a Gender Adviser in Juba, South Sudan, where she, together with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has helped establish the Stand Up for Rights of Women and Girls initiative and helps promote sexual and gender and reduce and prevent sex. based crime in South Sudan.
As part of this project, Chief Inspector Malambo has created a network of groups led by male local police officers to involve other men in the community to disseminate information and promote the protection and promotion of the rights of women and girls.
Chief Inspector Malambo also contributed to UNMISS ‘efforts to disseminate information on COVID-19 prevention to vulnerable communities, including people with disabilities.
The United Nations Women of the Year Award was established in 2011 to recognize the exceptional contributions of women police officers to UN peacekeeping operations and to promote the empowerment of women.
The award is of particular interest this year as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security and 60 years since the first deployment of UN police at the UN operation in Congo.
Greater women’s participation in peacekeeping sends a strong message to our host populations. This message is reinforced when women police officers such as Chief Inspector Malambo take the lead in empowering and protecting others, even more so in a pandemic context.
“Greater women’s participation in peacekeeping sends a strong message to our host populations. This message is reinforced when women police officers such as Chief Inspector Malambo take the lead in empowering and protecting others, even more so in a pandemic context,” the UN said in a statement. -secretary said. General of Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix, who presented the award to her during a virtual ceremony on November 3, 2020. “Doreen Malambo illustrates the best of the United Nations’ policing through both her ideas and actions.”
“Like many peacekeepers during this challenging time, Chief Inspector Malambo continues to go beyond his duty to serve our communities,” said UN Police Adviser Luis Carrilho.
“Gender-responsive policing is a responsibility that everyone shares, and her efforts within the Mission and in the community to involve more men have led to greater awareness of the role each of us can play,” Carrilho added.
Chief Inspector Malambo said: “I motivate to know that I am making a difference by empowering women and promoting their active inclusion and participation in society. Empowering women is the key to the visibility of interests, concerns, needs and contributions of women as we advance the agenda for women, peace and security. “
Her previous UN experience includes a deployment at the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) from 2008 to 2009, where she assisted Liberian national police in preventing and investigating sexual and gender-based violence and domestic violence. Her national experience spans 24 years at the Zambia Police Service.
The award will be presented during the 15th United Nations Police Week, which takes place from 2 to 6 November. At this annual event, heads of UN police components and police experts of peace operations, special political missions and regional offices and senior leaders of the UN discuss achievement, behavior and discipline, civil protection, conflict prevention, peacekeeping and other issues and priorities that touching the United States. Nations policing.
About 11,000 UN police, of whom 1,300 are women, are being deployed today in 16 United Nations peacekeeping operations to improve international peace and security by supporting host countries in conflict, post-conflict and other crisis situations.
The UN’s goal is to deploy 30% among individual police officers and 20% among formed police units by 2028.