Patrick Cammaert

[7] From 2003 to 2005 General Cammaert was the Military Adviser for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the UN (DPKO) in New York as well as the UN Development Programme, the UN Women on Integrated Training Development, the protection of civilians from the threat of physical violence and sexual gender-based violence in armed conflict.

[1][8] In early 2005 Cammaert's Eastern Division killed 50 fighters in Ituri after losing nine of its own soldiers in an ambush.

Later that year, he was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to lead an independent special investigation into the violence in Juba, South Sudan, in July 2016, and the response of the UNMISS.

[9] On 22 December 2018 Cammaert started leading the UN monitoring mission to oversee the UN-brokered ceasefire and redeployment of forces in the city of Al Hudaydah in Yemen.

In 2015, he was a member of the High Level Advisory Group for the global study on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325.