India is the first country in the world to deploy an all-woman contingent to a UN Peacekeeping Mission. In which country did this mission operate?

The correct answer is A, Liberia. In January 2007 India sent the world's first all-woman Formed Police Unit to the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). The unit came from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and had more than a hundred women personnel. It guarded important sites in the capital Monrovia, carried out night patrols and helped train the Liberian police, and its example is credited with encouraging many Liberian women to join their national police. Indian women's contingents rotated through Liberia until 2016, and the unit is remembered as a landmark for women in UN peacekeeping. Option B is wrong because Indian troops have served in Sudan and South Sudan, but not as this first all-woman unit. Option C is wrong because Burundi was not the place of this deployment. Option D is wrong because Croatia, once part of Yugoslavia, saw UN missions in the 1990s, but not India's women's unit. Exam tip: first all-woman UN peacekeeping unit: India's CRPF, Liberia, 2007.