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Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award
May 31 , 2020
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- Recently women peacekeepers from India and Brazil have jointly won the United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year 2019 Award.
- Major Suman Gawani of the Indian Army and Commander Carla Monteiro de Castro Araujo of Brazil have been chosen for the award.
- Major Suman Gawani is the first Indian to receive the award.
- United Nations “Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award” was created in 2016.
- It recognizes the dedication and effort of an individual military peacekeeper in promoting the principles of UN Security Resolution.
- The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is the newest United Nations peacekeeping mission for the recently independent South Sudan, which became independent on 9 July 2011.
- It was established in 2011 under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1996.
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