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<p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is currently examining the number, training and requirement
of military gender advisors.</p><p>Over the past 12 months, the MOD has deployed gender
advisors to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq (in order to train the Kurdish
Security Forces (KSF); approximately 700 KSF have been trained so far). The MOD will
also be deploying one gender advisor to the United Nations Headquarters to support
the United Nations' military advisor to the Secretary-General on gender issues.</p><p>The
MOD's cultural advisors have undertaken over 60 deployments over the past 12 months,
to locations such as Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Nigeria,
Ghana, Angola, Mozambique and Bosnia.</p>
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