Women are often “placed second or even ignored” when they are employed as corrections officers in prisons and other detention centers, according to Téné Maimouna Zoungrana, an officer from Burkina Faso serving with the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).
Over 55,000 people to flee their homes, further increasing their vulnerability because of violence in several parts of the country. The UN official pointed out that armed combatants have increased their threats and attacks against CAR’s dedicated humanitarian actors, preventing hundreds of thousands of people in the west and center of the country from receiving […]
