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India has once again proved its diplomatic and social power on the global platform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). In the field of women empowerment and global peacekeeping, India has made a tremendous impact by presenting its historical achievements to the world. During a very important open debate in the Security Council on the topic ‘Women, Peace and Security’, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Harish Parvatneni gave a clear message to the world from the global platform that when women are empowered politically, socially and financially, how the entire country moves towards a positive change.
Ambassador Harish Parvatneni presented the glorious journey from the ground reality of India to the presence of women in the top positions of the country in a very impressive manner.
Women power is resonating from Panchayat to Parliament, global echo of ‘Women’s Reservation Act 2023’
India shared with great pride on the global stage this unique data that due to constitutional reservation in local self-governance institutions (Panchayats and Municipal bodies) of the country, today more than 10 lakh elected women are holding the leadership of rural and urban development in their hands. This participation of women in local governance has increased to more than one-third. To further strengthen this historic and successful journey, the Government of India has now extended this revolutionary system to the Parliament and State Assemblies of India through the ‘Women’s Reservation Act 2023’.
Ambassador Parvataneni reminded the global community that India has always been led by strong women holding top positions, be it the post of Prime Minister of the country or Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Today, the pride of India increases further that a distinguished woman President Draupadi Murmu is occupying the highest constitutional post of the country i.e. as the Head of the Nation. Along with this, the number of daughters in the internal and external security front of the country i.e. in the Indian Armed Forces is also continuously increasing.
Indian heroines shine on the global front, Major Abhilasha Barak receives ‘UN Gender Advocate Award’
On the peacekeeping and global missions front, India described the deployment of women in uniform in UN Peacekeeping Missions as the liveliest and biggest example of the ‘Women, Peace and Security’ agenda. India was the proud first country in the world to send an all-female police unit to the United Nations Mission in Liberia in the year 2007. This bold move by India then inspired thousands of Liberian women to join its National Police Service.
Currently, more than 160 Indian women peacekeepers are deployed with full alertness in various remote UN missions across the world. These brave women are not only instilling a sense of security and confidence in the local communities, but are also playing a historic role in combating gender-based violence in war-torn areas. For this unwavering commitment of Indian women peacekeepers, the United Nations had honored them in the year 2019 and 2024, and now recently in the year 2026, Major Abhilasha Barak, a brave officer of the Indian Army, has been awarded the prestigious ‘UN Gender Advocate Award’.
India is preparing women military officers from ‘Global South’, Delhi becomes global center
India is not just limited to protecting its borders or its missions, but it is also preparing women military officers of other countries for the future challenges at the global level. The ‘Centre for United Nations Peacekeeping’ (CUNPK), established by the Indian Army in the country’s capital New Delhi, has been continuously providing high-level training to women military officers from around the world since 2016.
Taking this global diplomacy forward, India had hosted a very successful and large conference for women peacekeepers from the ‘Global South’ (developing countries) in February 2025, in which women military officers from more than 35 countries participated. Immediately after this, ‘UN Women Military Officers Course’ was also successfully organized in New Delhi in August 2025, which proves that India is emerging as the biggest center of global peace and women leadership in the coming times.