Hard and soft security for Rohingyas with Annette Lyth

During Colombianätverket's seminar about women as peace actors in Colombia, Yenly Angéllon Méndez told several stories about how women engage themselves to stop the conflict that has been wreaking havoc in Colombia for decades. But when Operation 1325 asked her how...

Even if women often are caught in the line of fire during the ongoing Colombian conflict, women possess great potential in raising wareness for peace at the grassroots level. This states Yenly Angéllon Méndez, a Colombian author and human rights activist, which last...

Strengthening the capacity of women and empowering them to take a greater place in positions of power within developmental and agricultural issues is a central, necessary and effective measure to realise human rights, decrease poverty and obtain sustainable...

At the end of May, Operation 1325 arranged in cooperation with the NGO Kvinna till Kvinna, the consultant agnecy InDevelop and the Canadian Embassy a seminar called "Implementing United Nat At the end of May, Operation 1325 arranged in cooperation with the NGO Kvinna...

Yesterday, the UN took a stand against the gross violation of children's rights to education made by anti-government groups recently. At the same time, several UN bodies, among them UN Women and UNFPA, condemns the exclusion of women in security related areas, and...

Last week, the Swedish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee discussed human rights in Swedish foreign politics. In the debate, numerous countries were brought up, including China, Burma, Nicaragua and South Sudan, where some members of the Foreign Affairs Committee...