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This year the International Women's Day will be celebrated on 5th of March and different schools and their students...

On the 5th of December Operation 1325 launched its annual Women Count report, which evaluates Sweden’s implementation...

How well has Sweden managed to implement resolution 1325 on women, peace and security? Sweden was amongst the first to...

Today, on the 14th anniversary of UNSCR 1325 we take the opportunity to launch a joint statement by 16 of our partner...

Women’s rights- and peace activists from Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon gathered...

During the NATO summit in Wales on the 4th and 5th of September this year, a new declaration was adopted. One of the...

04/09/2014 War is raging in our surrounding areas, in Ukraine and the Middle East, and every day we receive reports of...

A hectic, but also very inspiring, weekend at the gigantic women’s rights conference Nordiskt Forum Malmö 2014 is over...

Operation 1325, 1325 Network Finland, Forum Norway 1325 and WILPF Denmark are pleased to invite you to a seminar and...

Today, NIKK, Nordic Information on Gender, starts the publishing of a series of articles on Nordic...

Less than four months now remains to the opening of the historic women's rights conference Nordic Forum Malmö 2014 -...

Yesterday, Iraq joined 43 UN Member States who have endorsed a National Action Plan on UN Security Council Resolution...

The scheduled Geneva II peace meeting on the crisis in Syria is approaching. The 22nd of January the UN backed...

Sweden’s National Action Plan for the implementation of Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security does not live up...

30/10/2013 During the annual open debate on Resolution 1325 earlier this month the Security Council announced the...

04/09/2013 Is it possible, in the midst of war, to mobilize for peace and demand women’s participation? Asking...

27/06/2013 Late this Monday Swedish time a new resolution was adopted on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) by the UN...

What does a good NAP on UNSCR 1325 look like and how does the process of developing a NAP become inclusive and...

The UN Security Council is in the process of preparing a new resolution on women, peace, and security (WPS), with a...

How can women influence the security situation in the Middle East and North Africa? Representatives from women and...

Between the 11th and 13th of April, 22 representatives from civil society in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh gathered in...

Today Operation 1325 celebrates Valentine’s Day by sending a big bouquet of flowers to Urban Ahlin, Foreign Policy...

A low number of women participating in peacekeeping missions, a lack of knowledge on gender issues on behalf of the...

UNSCR 1325, which was adopted by the UN Security Council in 2000, was in many ways groundbreaking. Much has been...

27/11/2012 Earlier this month Operation 1325 organised a workshop in Juba, South Sudan, on implementing UN Security...

On Wednesday, 24th of October, Operation 1325 attended the launch of a report titled “Mapping Women, Peace, and...

18/09/2012 I came to Sudan two and a half months ago as part of my Masters Program in Migration and Intercultural...

This week the British Embassy in Stockholm hosted a roundtable discussion on violence against women with Mark Lowcock,...

10/09/2012 In a heat of almost 40° Celsius and in a room without air condition we gathered, women from a number of...

05/09/2012 In five days, on September 10, the Somali Parliament will elect the next President of Somalia. Dr. Shukria...

At Operation 1325's lecture at the Nordic Centre for Gender in Military Operations, 23 participants from 20 different...

In January 2012, the Swedish Armed Forces opened the Nordic Centre for Gender in Military Operations, with the purpose...

In 2008, the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) adopted a Gender and Development protocol, where detailed...

Since Somalia reached independence in 1960, the country has steadily evolved into a patriarchy, where women's power...

In Operation 1325's international cooperation, women's organisations from several countries and regions have met and...

Since 2010, Swedish politician Margot Wallström has worked for the UN as the special representative in issues...

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the murder of then Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh, who was stabbed to...

During Colombianätverket's seminar about women as peace actors in Colombia, Yenly Angéllon Méndez told several stories...

Even if women often are caught in the line of fire during the ongoing Colombian conflict, women possess great...

Strengthening the capacity of women and empowering them to take a greater place in positions of power within...

At the end of May, Operation 1325 arranged in cooperation with the NGO Kvinna till Kvinna, the consultant agnecy...

Yesterday, the UN took a stand against the gross violation of children's rights to education made by anti-government...

Last week, the Swedish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee discussed human rights in Swedish foreign politics. In...

On the 13th of April, an action plan for gender equality and women's empowerment was adopted at a UN Board of...

Last week, Operation 1325 released the report "Security on the Ground" - a manual directed towards international...

Yesterday, Operation 1325 had its annual meeting, where all the member organisations gathered to discuss the future...

The 24th of January, the Swedish Armed Forces launched the Nordic Centre for Gender in Military Operations, a center...

South Sudan is currently in a  position where the women's civil society is strongly protesting against the exclusion...

Government agencies should educate men and women in resolution 1325. It should not be a job for just women. This was...

Women's organisations should deepen their cooperation with government agencies and the media. The gap between...

Governments must take increased responsibility to ensure that women become more involved in the reconstruction of...

Resolution 1325 is the responsibility of all Swedish ministries not only a few. Evaluation of results of realising...

Raising women’s participation in peace work on different levels was the theme of the seminars that Operation 1325...

Maj Britt Theorin, the president of Operation 1325 met with Finnish Secretary of State and saw a chance to put UNSCR...

Elisabet Thorp is working with Operation 1325:s conference “Security on the Ground” on security sector reform. She is...

This fall Operation 1325 will be visiting four cities as a part of a seminar tour. These cities include Lund, Örebro,...

A conflict over election results in the Sudanes South Kordofan state has led to a spree of killings. Operation 1325:s...

UNSCR 1325 was groundbreaking when it was adopted in 2000, but the shortcomings in the implementation of the...

A group from Operation 1325 recently returned from Iraqi Kurdistan with our bags full of knowledge, and ideas of...

In conjunction with the 10-year anniversary of the resolution in October 2010 two important documents were released to...