Ungdomsorganisationen Push Sverige var på plats på COP24 i förra veckan. Men de kände sig inte särskilt välkomna.
Av: Madeleine Norman och Saga Jonsson
Civilsamhällets medverkan på klimattoppmötet i Polen, COP24, har mötts av ovilja och ointresse. Det har varit svårt att få boende, tillträde till förhandlingarna och till och med att komma in i landet för vissa. Politikernas ovilja att lyssna är tydlig, trots att det är vår framtid de äventyrar, skriver ungdomsorganisationen PUSH Sverige.
13 december, 2018, Debatt
Det händer mycket på den europeiska kontinenten. De stora demonstrationerna i Frankrike är ett exempel. Foto: Olivier Ortelpa (CC-BY-2.0)
Av: Karl Follin
När franska demonstranter skanderar på Paris gator, skålar världens intellektuella elit i champagne på nobelmiddagen i Stockholm. Men nobelmiddagen förde även upp EU:s relation till DR Kongo på agendan.
12 december, 2018, Aktuell debatt
Av: Kansliet
50 000 kvinnor i världen dör varje år av våld i nära relationer och 104 länder i världen har lagar som hindrar kvinnor från att ta vissa jobb. Samtidigt finns initiativ av kvinnliga jordbrukare och sexarbetare som kräver sina rättigheter och av män som utbildar i antivåld. FUF:s lokalgrupp i Lund har gjort ett helt magasin om genus och utveckling – helt på engelska.
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10 december, 2018, Nyhet
Schoolboys attend sensitization classes on sexual education at a school in Bangui, Central African Republic. The classes are meant to prevent gender-based violence. Photo: UN/Flickr.
Av: Siobhán Coskeran och Yvonne Jila
The fight against gender-based violence has often been cast as a women’s issue. However, successful programmes in Africa show the importance of engaging men and boys in the discussion.
10 december, 2018, English, Long read, Magazine
Gender inequalities affect all branches of all societies and must be taken into account for development to work. Photo: UN Women/Flickr.
Av: Fredrik Björksten
It was not very surprising when the video of Janusz Korwin-Mikke, a Polish member of the European Parliament, went viral in early 2017. On the floor of the EU parliament, the Polish right-wing extremist stood up and proclaimed that; “women must earn less than men because they are weaker, smaller and less intelligent!”. Responding to […]
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10 december, 2018, Editorial, English, Magazine
On November 30th, the government building in Pristina, Kosovo, was lit in orange to commemorate the “16 Days of Activism” against Gender Based Violence. Photo: United Nations Kosovo Team/Arben Llapashtica.
Av: Visare Gorani Gashi
– An outlook from Kosovo ”Freedom from fear is a summary of the whole philosophy and human rights.” Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat and former UN Secretary General Gender-based violence is a shameful reality in many societies around the world and is unfortunately also present in Kosovo. This phenomenon is deeply rooted in gender inequalities that […]
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10 december, 2018, Chronicle, English, Magazine
50 000 women were killed last year in the global war on women. Photo: JWT/UN Women.
Av: Fredrika Sweno
Women killed by intimate partners or family members account for 58 per cent of all female homicide victims reported globally last year. We need to recognize that a lot of homicides should be regarded as casualties in the war against women.
10 december, 2018, English, Magazine, Opinion
A hijra (term for individuals in South Asia who feel neither male or female) at the annual Transgender Festival in Koovagam, India, in 2017. Photo: Lingeswaran Marimuthukumar, Flickr.
Av: Hanna Geschewski och Lauren Tropeano
What happens if you don’t behave like your gender ‘should’? Examples from Native American, Indian and Iranian cultures highlight that gender is diverse, but that the acknowledgement of gender variance doesn’t necessarily make us inclusive.
10 december, 2018, Article, English, Magazine
The White House in Moscow that serves as the seat of the Russian parliament. Photo: Kirill Vinokurov, Flickr.
Av: Lisa Elamson och Maria Ricksten
The Istanbul Convention is a legal framework that seeks to prevent and combat violence against women. In Russia, where it is estimated that 14,000 women die every year as a result of domestic violence, the signing and ratification of the Convention is an urgent matter. But instead, last year Russia chose to decriminalise some forms of domestic violence.
10 december, 2018, Article, English, Magazine
Demonstrations for the full decriminalization of sex work. Photo: WeArePlanC, 2018.
Av: Kathrin Hegger och Tessa Stockburger
Laws that prohibit the sex industry perpetuate gender-based violence. That is the opinion of Chantell Martin and Cameron Cox from the Sex Workers Outreach Project, SWOP, Australia.
10 december, 2018, Article, English, Magazine
