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In order to identify and remove barriers that may prevent women from contributing their full potential to the country's protection efforts, Canada established the Chief of Professional Conduct and Culture in April 2021. Led by a three-star General, the new structure seeks to nurture an inclusive culture across the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces.

With United Nations support, Uruguay works to reduce the barriers that household constraints and gender roles place on women and impact their ability to participate in security and defence institutions. Providing integrated childcare systems or granting scholarships to single-parent households to pay for childcare in case of peacekeeping deployment are some of the measures aimed at making the Uruguayan Armed Forces more inclusive and effective.

As far back as 1958, the year the first female officer joined the Ghana Armed Forces a year after the country's independence, the number of uniformed women has grown exponentially. Lately, Ghana has sought to promote women in leadership and military operations, creating opportunities for more women to thrive in all branches of the Army and as UN peacekeepers.

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in the Sudan.

Press conference by Mamadou Dian Balde, UNHCR Regional Bureau Director for the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes and Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan Situation, on the needs and challenges faced by people displaced by the conflict in the region.

The Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ (OPCW) efforts to organize the next round of consultations with Syria continue to be unsuccessful, a senior official of the United Nations for Disarmament Affairs told the Security Council, stressing that full cooperation by Damascus is essential to closing its chemical weapons file.

History Is at Risk of Repeating, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Tells Security Council, Urging Accountability for New Crimes in Darfur.

The Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question, 9361st Meeting