A more recent phenomenon has been women's entry into the uniformed services.

Uniformed services report much higher HIV AIDS prevalence rates than the general population.

Its application is extended to the uniformed staff of the armed forces and to domestic service staff.

The head of the Division also provides a professional head for the United Nations uniformed security service personnel.

Training, gender sensitization and capacity building for United Nations staff, uniformed personnel and civilian police would be stepped up.

The Council commends UNAIDS for developing, in cooperation with interested States, national programmes to address HIV AIDS among their uniformed personnel.

The Security Council recognizes that men and women in the uniformed services are vital elements in the fight against HIV AIDS.

One expert pointed out that the word regular might be restrictive as that normally referred to uniformed forces, thereby excluding reservist forces.

The HIV AIDS unit would provide ongoing HIV AIDS awareness and sensitization programmes for uniformed and civilian peacekeepers in all the sectors.

These include an early retirement policy patterned on industry standards, a review of salaries, which for uniformed security personnel are currently based on prevailing local rates, a mobility policy reflective of that outlined in the Secretary General's reform programme, an attractive and effective career development model, unified firearms standards for uniformed personnel and a comprehensive physical fitness policy.

The Security Council welcomes the collaboration between DPKO and UNAIDS and its co sponsors to address HIV AIDS awareness among peacekeeping personnel, both uniformed and civilian.

This figure does not include the uniformed peacekeepers or the 26 civilian staff members who have lost their lives as result of aircraft accidents due to technical problems.

UNAIDS is working to ensure that the uniformed services become an important partner in the fight against HIV AIDS, both within their ranks and in the broader community.

The Special Branch Police and the National Intelligence Agency have cooperated to draw up lists of possible soft targets and increased the number of uniformed and undercover officers.

On the side of uniformed personnel, two members of formed police units and 77 military personnel have been repatriated or rotated home on disciplinary grounds, including six military commanders.

A key objective of the work of the mission's gender component would be to facilitate capacity building support for both uniformed and civilian elements in the mission on gender mainstreaming strategies.

Increasingly, modern wars are no longer confrontations between regular armies, but more like street and urban warfare fought by civilian rebels and uniformed soldiers citizens of the same country or local conflicts raging among civilian factions.

So how can Iraq create uniformed services that can be trusted to enforce the law effectively and impartially, without consideration of ethnicity, religion and gender? The traditional answer is to recruit, train, and instill the right values.

Through close partnerships with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations country teams and other United Nations agencies, UNAIDS has assisted national uniformed services from 30 countries in Africa, most recently the Sudan, Mozambique and South Africa.

As a major contributor to United Nations peacekeeping missions, Indonesia is of the view that training, gender sensitization and capacity building for uniformed personnel and civilian police are essential for effective United Nations peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping missions.

AMIS is operating at nearly its full mandated military strength, and has been effective where it has been able to deploy. The total uniformed strength of the Mission now stands at 2,259 out of an authorized strength of 3,156.

Added security is provided between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, by the United Nations Security and Safety Service, which provides uniformed security staff at the entrance to the 37th floor at a cost of 321,600

Deeply concerned over the commission of unconscionable acts of sexual abuse and exploitation by a number of uniformed peacekeepers and civilian officials of some United Nations peacekeeping missions, and concerned that such activity fuels the demand for victims of trafficking,

But support by Jews for the Maidan movement was much more salient. Four of the 82 protesters killed in Kyiv s Independence Square were Jewish, and a Jewish sotnia, or hundred a term, ironically, associated with Cossack pogromists defended the square against Yanukovych s uniformed goons.

Of the 383 additional posts authorized by the General Assembly for uniformed officers, 116 security officers were recruited by May 2005, with another 149 officers deployed in September and the majority of the remaining security officers to be recruited by the end of the year.

Forceful promulgation of the standards of conduct expected of all civilian and uniformed peacekeepers, combined with vigorous exercise of the rules for enforcing these standards. Special emphasis is placed on the personal responsibilities of leaders and managers both in the field and at Headquarters

The Special Committee notes the unprecedented increase in peacekeeping operations, and commends the Department of Peacekeeping Operations for its achievement in managing the deployment of some 75,000 military, civilian police and both international and local civilians, and for the rotation of some 120,000 uniformed personnel in 2004.

The observation of the Office of Internal Oversight Services that there was a pattern of sexual exploitation by uniformed personnel involving women and girls is a source of major concern, which is now being addressed in a comprehensive manner by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and MONUC.

UNAMSIL, together with the UNAIDS Country Coordinator and the United Nations country team, United Nations agencies and international and local non governmental organizations, continued to be involved in activities on HIV AIDS prevention among the various vulnerable groups in the communities, and the national uniformed services.

These units, most of which are not controlled by the PNA s central leadership, are more loyal to grassroots figures than to uniformed PNA officers. Local Fatah leaders like Marwan Barghouti have tremendous power over the nationalist armed units that are loosely organized under the title of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Mubarak s first internal war was with Islamic militants during his early years in power, but he now finds himself caught in three more domestic wars. The battle with the judges has incited enough popular unrest to warrant Mubarak s deployment of thousands of black uniformed central security forces in the heart of Cairo.

(f) Up until 6 March 2005, the Mission observed that there were large numbers of uniformed personnel and persons in civilian attire wandering around the scene, and that there was no record of persons entering or leaving the scene and no control over removal or placing of items samples at the scene

However it has not been used to hinder the entry of women in non traditional areas fields of work as is evidenced by the increasing numbers of women entering the uniformed services the police, army, air force etc.) Articles 51 and 106 provide for the reservation of seats for women in the legislatures.

The position of the commander of the Palestinian forces supposedly puts the various Palestinian military, security, and intelligence units under one leader, who is expected to ensure the rule of law. But these forces are now in disarray, with most uniformed Palestinian security agencies needing to be reorganized after four years of intensive effort by Israel to crush them.

The Special Committee recommends the strengthening of capacity at the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, with due attention to avoiding duplication of resources and functions, to address all cases of misconduct including sexual exploitation and abuse, to provide prompt advice to missions, to ensure the coherent application of United Nations procedures, and to provide guidance and advice for all categories of civilian and uniformed personnel.

The components of the Department of Safety and Security security and safety services in all main locations of the Organization have responded well to the challenges of increased integration and have contributed significantly to recent short notice operational requirements, as demonstrated by the rapid deployment of uniformed personnel to provide safety and security protection at short notice to the Independent International Investigation Commission in Lebanon.

These could take different forms, but what is important is that they are truly inclusive at a local level, and that they get support from district, regional, and national power structures when they highlight abuses. If there is local scrutiny, and national reinforcement and recognition of the value of that scrutiny, then most members of the uniformed forces are likely to behave appropriately and can be more easily identified and dealt with if they don t.