India will deploy a platoon of women peacekeepers to UN Mission in Abyei. This would be India's largest single unit of women Peacekeepers in a UN Mission since it deployed the first-ever all-women force in Liberia in 2007. The deployment in Abyei also signals India's intention to dramatically increase the number of Indian women serving in peacekeeping contingents. About United Nation Founded: 24 October 1945 Headquarters: New York, United States Secretary general: António Guterres About Abyei The Abyei Area is an area on the border between South Sudan and the Sudan that has been accorded "special administrative status" by the 2004 Protocol on the Resolution of the Abyei Conflict in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the Second Sudanese Civil War.
