Women´s Rights Archives - International Legal Assistance Consortium

Remembering a Windhoek Seminar and UN Security Council resolution 1325: ILAC’s Board member Nina Lahoud takes stock 20 years after promises were made to the world’s women in conflict-affected countries

October 5, 2020

”The Beijing Platform for Action and UNSC Resolution 1325 are both examples of how international law can be used to move gender equality forward. Countries like my own, Sweden, where equality between the sexes has reached further than in other countries – have…

Beyond Legal Reforms: How to Ensure Gender Equality?

May 15, 2019

Oftentimes when I lecture on human rights, which includes women’s rights, I explain to my students that the achievement of human rights and gender equality is a process rather than a fixed result. The struggle to achieve the fulfilment of…

ILAC Executive Director Moderates Swedish MFA Panel on Women’s Rights

October 5, 2016

Stockholm, October 5, 2016: Sweden´s Ministry for Foreign Affairs hosted a women’s rights workshop in Stockholm this week that ILAC’s Executive Director, Agneta Johansson, and Ambassador to the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations in Geneva, Veronika Bard, co-moderated.