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UN Award 2025 - Major Abhilasha Barak
May 27 , 2026
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- Major Abhilasha Barak received the 2025 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award.
- She is serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon as the Commander of the Female Engagement Team (FET).
- She will be honoured during the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, observed every year on 29 May.
- She was recognised for community outreach with women and girls and for gender sensitisation training among peacekeepers.
- Major Abhilasha Barak is also the first woman combat helicopter pilot of the Indian Army.
- She is the third Indian recipient of the award after Major Suman Gawani in 2019 and Major Radhika Sen in 2023.
- The award was created in 2016 by the Office of Military Affairs under the Department for Peace Operations.
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