The United Kingdom pays tribute to the UN Police who bravely serve in peacekeeping missions around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n
UN policing is fundamental to effective peacekeeping in many contexts. To sustain impact, it must continue to adapt.<\/p>\n
To that end, technology, including new digital tools, should be used to enhance the effectiveness of UN policing, supported by strong digital competency within missions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New technologies can make missions more effective by enhancing operational awareness and deepening community engagement, but only if peacekeepers have the right skills and training to use them.<\/p>\n
Second, it is vital that, like all peacekeepers, UN police uphold and reinforce the highest human rights, conduct, and accountability standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n
These principles form the basis of trust with local populations and are critical for mission effectiveness.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Any form of misconduct, including sexual exploitation and abuse, is unacceptable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This requires timely and transparent accountability processes, with consistent national follow-up and publicly accessible reporting on disciplinary results.<\/p>\n
Third, we must be clear that the meaningful participation of women in UN policing is an operational necessity, not an optional extra.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As we have heard clearly today, women police strengthen community engagement, broaden access, and improve reporting of conflict-related sexual violence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
For our part, the United Kingdom remains committed to tackling barriers to women\u2019s participation in United Nations peacekeeping, including through our long-standing support for the Elsie Initiative Fund, to which we have pledged a further $685,000 in 2025.<\/p>\n
Together, these efforts will help ensure UN policing remains capable, trusted, and effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Kingdom pays tribute to the UN Police who bravely serve in peacekeeping missions around the world.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-410099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}