Sweden
Sweden
"It is time to fully realise UN Security Council Resolution 1325, granting women their crucial role in peace and state building.”
Sweden
“To solve this crisis, we also need to stop the horrors in Syria. Extrajudicial executions, sexual and gender-based violence, atrocities that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity cannot be tolerated by our international community.”
“It is time to see sexual violence as one of the most destructive weapons of all and to fight it with the full force of the international community.”
Sweden
“This is a foundation for peace that is too precious to neglect. This is closely connected to the potential of gender equality. The barring of women from power and public debate, from work and education, from their human right to decide over themselves, including their bodies, reproduction and sexuality, is a global disgrace. It is time to once and for all get rid of structures that discriminate against and belittle people, on whatever grounds.”