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United Nations Police officers deployed to UNMISS consistently work to build capacities among their local counterparts. UNPOL recently teamed up with the UN Peacekeeping mission’s Gender Unit to provide a three-day intensive course on gender-responsive policing to 54 senior officers from the South Sudan Police Service.UNMISS
English News and Press Release on Somalia about Protection and Human Rights; published on 25 Jun 2021 by AMISOM
Punch Newspapers Sections • Seven suspected cultists nabbed in hotel A man, Kayode Adeyanju, has been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly defiling his 14-year-old daughter in the Ikorodu area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the suspect was arrested after the victim reported the incident to the police. He added that the case had been transferred to the Gender Unit of the command for further investigation. Adeyanju Adejobi said in a statement, “Police operatives attached to the Ipakodo Division, Ikorodu, on June 7, 20...
For Itzel Schnaas, a 31-year-old professional ballet dancer in Mexico City, going public was her insurance policy. If the plan worked, she believed a world-famous public intellectual, with ties to Mexico’s government and major media conglomerates, would be exposed as a sex offender, and she could be protected from him and his powerful friends. Since then, 36 women have publicly accused Andrés Roemer, leveling charges of sexual harassment, abuse and rape on social media and in the press.
English News and Press Release on Somalia about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding and Protection and Human Rights; published on 28 May 2021 by AMISOM