Albanian activists and elected representatives on women’s rights

On the 5th of December Operation 1325 launched its annual Women Count report, which evaluates Sweden’s implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325. The event was arranged in cooperation with the Canadian Embassy to Sweden, where the purpose of...

How well has Sweden managed to implement resolution 1325 on women, peace and security? Sweden was amongst the first to adopt a national action plan for the implementation, and even if progress has been made a lot of the work still remains. Each year Operation 1325...

Today, on the 14th anniversary of UNSCR 1325 we take the opportunity to launch a joint statement by 16 of our partner organizations in the Middle East and North Africa. The joint statement calls for urgent efforts to end violence, and for systematic efforts to support...

Women’s rights- and peace activists from Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon gathered October 15-18 in Istanbul to discuss the role of women in the current conflicts and how civil society organizations can enhance women’s impact on peace...

During the NATO summit in Wales on the 4th and 5th of September this year, a new declaration was adopted. One of the 113 paragraphs dealt with the UN Security Council resolution 1325, which is a prioritized field for NATO. The new declaration states that when NATO is...

04/09/2014 War is raging in our surrounding areas, in Ukraine and the Middle East, and every day we receive reports of new conflict zones, civilian casualties and assaults. In only a few reports the vulnerability of women is mentioned; how the human rights of women...