UN Peacekeeping Current Affairs, GK & News
India to Gift 2 lakh Covid Vaccine Doses to UN Peacekeepers
India will send 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines (AstraZeneca Vaccine) to the UN peacekeepers. on March 27, 2021 and then vaccines will be distributed to peacekeeping missions. Highlights Announcement to gift 200000 covid-19 doses to UN Peacekeepers was announced by External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar, in February 2021. This decision was taken by considering that, ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2021
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: AstraZeneca • COVID-19 • COVID-19 vaccine • UN Peace Keeping Mission • UN Peace Keeping Operations • UN Peacekeeping
United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the year award to India’s major Suman Gawani
On the eve of International Day of UN Peacekeepers that is being marked on May 29, Indian major Suman Gawani and Brazilian Naval Officer Carla Monteiro de Castro Araujo are to be presented with the United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the year 2019 award. Highlights For the first time, the award is being shared ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2020
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers • South Sudan • UN Peacekeeping • UN Peacekeeping Operations • UN’s Highest Peacekeeping Award • United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMISS).
WHO launches COVID-19 Tools (Act) Accelerator
The World Health Organization along with the other international leading organizations such as Global Fund, UNTAID, CEPI, etc. has launched the COVID-19 Tools (Act) Accelerator. The collaboration helps to speed up the development, production and access to therapeutics, diagnostics and vaccines of COVID-19. Highlights The main of the collaboration is to make COVID-19 treatment available ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: China-US • German Chancellor • President Emmanuel Macron • UN Peacekeeping • United Nations • US President Donald Trump • World Health Organization (WHO)
Saudi-led Coalition calls Ceasefire in Yemen
On April 9, 2020, the Saudi Arabia led coalition declares cease fire in Yemen. The cease fire has been declared for a two-week period. Yemen War Yemen was devastated by a conflict that began in 2015. The Houthis that are backed by the Iran military took much of the control in west of the country. ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: Iran • Saudia Arabia • UN Charter • UN Peacekeeping • United Nations • Yemen • Yemen civil war • Yemen crisis
UN increases budget; includes funds for war crime probes
The United Nations has adopted 3.07 billion USD budget on December 27, 2019. The organization for the first time included investigation of war crimes in Myanmar and Syria in its fund allocation Highlights The budget proposal for the year 2020 is slightly greater than that of 2019. In 2019, UN budget was 2.9 billion USD. ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: Rohingya Crisis • Syrian conflict • UN financial crisis • UN Peacekeeping • United Nations