UN Peacekeepers
Serving for peace, sacrificing for humanity
Since 1948 more than two million people have served as in hotspots around the world, including more than 65,000 today.
They provide security, stability and hope for a better future to war-affected communities. And they often do so at great personal risk and under very harsh conditions, leaving their families behind thousands of hundreds of miles away from their homelands. More than have lost their lives serving under the UN flag.
Â鶹´«Ã½ does not have its own military or police force. It relies on individual UN Member States to contribute personnel to its peacekeeping operations. Today, UN peacekeepers hail from more than 100 troop and police contributing countries, but they are united in their goal to help provide security and stability to some of the most vulnerable people on earth. Collectively, they perform acts of courage and compassion every day.
Beyond their regular mandated activities ¨C such as protecting civilians and supporting peace processes -- peacekeepers often carry out humanitarian efforts such as delivering free medical and veterinary care, providing access to water; supporting schools and orphanages; building roads and bridges and other key infrastructure which benefit communities and bring people together.
Â鶹´«Ã½ honours the service and sacrifice of all peacekeepers and commends the contributions from all the countries that provide our peacekeeping operations with military and police personnel.
Their stories of service and sacrifice as well as courage and compassion are worth listening to.
Learn more about countries that contribute troops to UN Peacekeepers.
Our peacekeepers selflessly serve the world. Let us ensure we serve them, in honour of their service and sacrifice ¨C today and every day.¡±
United Nations Secretary-General (´¡²Ô³Ù¨®²Ô¾±´Ç&²Ô²ú²õ±è;³Ò³Ü³Ù±ð°ù°ù±ð²õ, 29 May 2025)
Spotlight
Stories of service and sacrifice
The Vietnamese Military Construction Engineer Company Rotation 4, working in collaboration Mission Support Division, Integrated Force Mobility Team and United Nations Mine Action Service, successfully rehabilitated the 37?kilometre stretch Abyei¨CAgok road.
For a visitor peering across the Nicosia wall, the buffer zone often looks like an empty ¡°no-man¡¯s land¡±. But for the men and women of the United Nations Police, this is not an empty space. It is a living, breathing community.
A team of 23 peacekeepers from Mongolia serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan escort a fleet of 22 fuel trucks with 96,000 litres of fuel to support the entire year¡¯s operations in Bentiu that will enable the peacekeepers to carry out patrols to protect civilians and support humanitarian operations.
UNIFIL peacekeepers have ramped up support to the people displaced from the mission¡¯s area of operations, especially those forced from towns and villages close to the Blue Line due to ongoing hostilities. Beneficiaries included internally displaced persons (IDPs) sheltering both within and outside the UNIFIL area of operations.