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In October 2014, Sweden became the first country in the world to launch a feminist foreign policy.

Now, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs has launched a handbook for Sweden’s feminist foreign policy. The handbook is a resource for international work relating to gender equality and all women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of human rights.

Feminist foreign policy is an agenda for change. By achieving a more gender-equal world, we also contribute to peace, security and sustainable development. In recent years, Sweden has developed partnerships and dialogues for gender equality with a wide range of countries. This includes Tunisia, which is dedicated to the agenda and has committed to host a follow-up conference to the Stockholm Forum on Gender Equality.

The global #WikiGap initiative has spread like wildfire across the Swedish foreign service. So far, more than 1 600 participants in more than 50 countries have written and edited around 4 000 Wikipedia articles in more than 30 different languages.

Sweden has the first feminist government in the world. This means that gender equality is central to the Government’s priorities – in decision-making and resource allocation.

The family-friendly policies introduced by Nordic countries over the past 50 years and associated increases in female employment have boosted growth in GDP per capita by between 10% and 20%, according to a new OECD report.

#WikiGap is a campaign that gathers people around the world to add more content to Wikipedia about women figures, experts and role models in various fields. Together, we want to bring about a more gender-equal internet – and a more gender-equal world.