Witness History
Witness History
First all-women peacekeeping unit
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March 8, 2023
9 minutes
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In 2007, the UN deployed its first all-female contingent of peacekeepers in Liberia in West Africa.
The country was still recovering from its long civil war when the Indian policewomen arrived.
In this programme first broadcast in 2019, Jill McGivering hears from Seema Dhundia of India’s Central Reserve Police Force who led the unit.
(Photo: Seema Dhundia. Credit: Getty Images)