Dag Hammarskjold medal

Current Context : Naik Dhananjay Kumar Singh was honored posthumously with the Dag Hammarskjold medal.

• He was served with the UN Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO).

INDIA AND UN

• India is the second largest contributor of uniformed personnel to UN Peacekeeping.
• It currently deploys more than 6,000 military and police personnel to the UN operations in Abyei, the Central African Republic, Cyprus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, the Middle East, Somalia, South Sudan, and Western Sahara.

ABOUT AWARD

• It was established in 1997 and it is the highest honour awarded to UN peacekeepers.
• It is a posthumous award given to members of peacekeeping operations who lost their lives during service with a peacekeeping operation
• It is named after the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold.