- The UN Trailblazer Award was established in 2022 by the Justice and Corrections Service in the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions, part of the Department of Peace Operations.The award recognises outstanding women justice and corrections officers who have broken through gender barriers in difficult and dangerous contexts.
Téné Maïmouna Zoungrana, of Burkina Faso, who is serving the UN Mission in CAR, received the United Nations Trailblazer Award for Women Justice and Corrections Officers at a special ceremony,on 7th June at UN Headquarters in New York.
The UN Trailblazer Award was established in 2022 by the Justice and Corrections Service in the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions, part of the Department of Peace Operations.The award recognises outstanding women justice and corrections officers who have broken through gender barriers in difficult and dangerous contexts.She was hailed by UN as the creator of a women-only rapid intervention team who leads riot control activities inside the Central African Republic’s biggest all male high-security prison .
In a Press Release announcing the Award,UN Peacekeeping acknowledged the significant contribution of Ms. Zoungrana,by supporting one of MINUSCA’s most difficult tasks – the demilitarization of the prison system in CAR. She also leads the rapid-intervention and riot-control activities at the all-male Ngaragba Central Prison in Bangui, the largest and most volatile prison of high risk prisoners in CAR.
She played a critical role integrating rapid intervention training into the national policies for prisons and detention centres, and helped improve the effectiveness and accountability of CAR penitentiary institutions,which brought down the number of escapes at the prison.
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