Question

Indian Army officer Major Suman Gawani recently won the 'United Nations Military _______ Advocate of the Year Award''. Fill in the blanks
Peace
Refugee
Gender
SDG

Answer 1

Indian Army officer Major Suman Gawani recently won the 'United Nations Military "Gender" Advocate of the Year Award''.

• Major Suman Gawani is an Indian Army officer.

• She has been served as a women peacekeeper with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).

• She received the prestigious “United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award” on 29 May 2020.

• She received this prestigious award from the UN Secretary General Mr Antonio Guterres on the occasion of International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.

Answer 2

United Nations Military Gender Advocate

Explanation:

Major Suman Gawani of the Indian Army recently won the United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the year Award. She has served as a peacekeeper with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in 2019. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres bestowed her with the award at the UN Headquarters in New York on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. The award was also bestowed to a Brazilian Naval officer Carla Monteiro de Castro Araujo.