UNIFIL supports local cooperatives and helps strengthen partnerships between peacekeepers and local communities as a forum for cultural exchange to help local entrepreneurs. Meet Maartje van Reedt Dortland, a female peacekeeper from the Netherlands working to advance peacekeepers role in UNIFIL and supporting local women, and girls, thus contributing to more equal gender relations in the local communities they serve. UNIFIL will continue to do what it can to reaffirm the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflict, in peacebuilding and in peacekeeping. Follow her story.
