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Agenda 2030, the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, has been in place for one year. Birgitte Feiring (Danish MR Institute), Åsa Persson (Stockholm Environment Institute), Malin Elisson (Sida) and Frida Trollmyr (municipal councilor in Malmö, S) discuss hopes and fears and whether Sweden is ready for work on the agenda. The seminar took place on November 17, 2016 at the MR days.
November 17, 2016, FUF pods
Sweden works both nationally and internationally to achieve the Global Goals. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs is responsible for the international work on the goals. But how is the Foreign Ministry's Agenda 2030 work coordinated with the thematic priorities in development aid and feminist foreign policy? And how can Swedish authorities, civil society, companies and the general public be involved in the work on Agenda 2030? Listen to Magnus Lennartsson who is head of the Global Agenda unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
November 7, 2016, FUF pods
It has been six months since Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy took power in Burma or Myanmar as the country's official name is. Since Burma has been ruled by the military junta for decades, expectations of the new democratically elected government have been high. And despite the fact that many democratic reforms have been implemented, the UN recently criticized the government in Burma for systematic discrimination against minority groups in the country, and above all by the Muslim minority group Rohingya. Johanna Kvist, information manager at the Burma Committee, and Abul Kalam, chairman of the Swedish Rohingya Associaton, talk about the situation for Rohingya in today's Burma.
November 1, 2016, FUF pods
Of: Samir Dualeh
The Somaliland Development Fund (SDF) is the most effective aid agency to have operated in Somaliland for the past 25 years. For the first time, Somaliland is experiencing ownership and significant progress in development projects, and the business is welcomed by the public. It is extremely important that SDF receives continued support from the outside world, and therefore Sweden should immediately join the development fund, writes Samir Dualeh at Somaliland Committee in Sweden.
November 1, 2016, Debate