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  2. United Nations Police - Wikipedia

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    UN Police car in Dili, East Timor. Since the 1960s, the United Nations Member States have contributed police officers to United Nations Peacekeeping operations. [5] The policing tasks of these operations were originally limited to monitoring, observing and reporting, but by the early 1990s, advising, mentoring and training of these personnel were adopted into the activities of the peace ...

  3. United Nations peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, Georgetown University professor Lise Howard argues that UN peacekeeping operations are more effective by virtue of their lack of compelling force; rather, their use of nonviolent methods such as "verbal persuasion, financial inducements and coercion short of offensive military force, including surveillance and arrest" are likelier to ...

  4. List of countries by number of United Nations peacekeepers ...

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    United States: 27 25 2 0.08 77 Philippines: 26 17 9 0.23 Switzerland: 26 21 5 2.90 79 Australia: 25 18 7 0.93 Bolivia: 25 18 7 2.08 Romania: 25 21 4 1.31 82 Mexico: 20 12 8 0.15 83 Honduras: 18 11 7 1.85 84 Chile: 15 8 7 0.75 85 Kyrgyzstan: 14 10 4 1.97 86 Netherlands: 13 10 3 0.72 88 Croatia: 11 10 1 2.85 Ecuador: 11 8 3 0.65 New Zealand: 11 8 ...

  5. UN chief urges deployment of police special forces and ...

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    The United Nations chief urged the international community on Tuesday to deploy a multinational force comprising “police special forces and military support units” to Haiti to combat gangs ...

  6. United Nations Department of Peace Operations - Wikipedia

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    The UN Truce Supervision Organisation and the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan are excluded from the Peacekeeping Operations budget and are financed through the regular UN budget. The top 5 providers of assessed contributions to the UN Peacekeeping Operations budget for 2020-2021 were: United States (27.89%), China (15.21% ...

  7. UN chief says 'robust use of force' needed against Haiti's gangs

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    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -A "robust use of force" by a multinational police deployment and use of military assets is needed to restore law and order in Haiti and disarm gangs, U.N. chief Antonio ...

  8. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Thursday for a robust international force to help combat Haiti’s armed gangs and restore security in the impoverished nation, saying that a U.N ...

  9. First emergency special session of the United Nations General ...

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    On the fourth day of the ESS the Canadian representative, Lester B. Pearson, introduced the concept of a UN police force. The creation of the United Nations Emergency Force (the first peacekeeping force) was approved by the General Assembly with 57 supports and zero opposes. The vote had 19 countries abstaining, including the United Kingdom ...