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Of: Emma Rönngren
Every year, 800 people in the world commit suicide and many times more try to take their own lives. Kazakhstan, a country in Central Asia that few Swedes know anything about and that occupies an area as large as the whole of Western Europe, is according to the World Health Organization WHO one of the countries where most suicides are committed among children and young people in […]
May 24, 2018, FUF-correspondents
Photo: SuSanA Secretariat, Wikimedia Commons
Governments and aid organizations are facing difficult considerations about how resources should be distributed, not least in light of the 169 sub-goals in Agenda 2030. But by analyzing how the goals affect each other, they can prioritize smarter - to the benefit of the whole, write Annie Sturesson and Nina Weitz, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute.
May 22, 2018, Debate
Photo: Stefan Krasowski, Wikimedia Commons
Date and time: 22 May, 18:00 - 19:30
Today, there are over 15 nuclear weapons in the world and several nuclear weapon countries are currently renewing their arsenals. Developments have changed the security policy situation globally. It shows tendencies towards arms race, that is, competing military armaments between different nations around the world. The development is worrying and goes against previous agreements where the nuclear-weapon countries have agreed to […]
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Of: Sofia Arkelsten
Tomorrow, the Riksdag will hold a seminar on the global goals for sustainable development and Agenda 2030. But the government's action plan has still not been presented. If it does not receive parliamentary treatment, the government will deliberately undermine its value, writes the moderate Member of Parliament Sofia Arkelsten.
May 22, 2018, Debate
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Of: Lynn Jansson
In the eyes of the state, they do not exist - the 230 million children who today have no legal existence worldwide. This is despite the fact that the right to citizenship and personal identity is included in the UN Declaration of Human Rights and is pursued through sub-goals in Agenda 2030. The startup company iCivil has developed a technical solution that can help remedy the problem.
May 21, 2018, Report
Date and time: 16 May, 08:30 - 09:30
In September, three years have passed since Agenda 2030 was adopted unanimously by UN member states. We are no longer in the starting blocks, but how far have we come? What's going on in the future? And how does Sweden contribute on a global level? In recent years, FUF has closely followed Sweden's work to implement Agenda 2030, nationally […]
Photo: Bőr Benedek, Wikimedia Commons
Of: Malin Björk
We cannot allow EU asylum policy to be dictated by anti-refugee and racist governments such as those in Hungary and Poland. Instead, those countries that want to take joint responsibility for the global refugee situation must take the lead in forming a coalition of willing countries. It writes the Left Party's EU parliamentarian Malin Björk.
May 15, 2018, Debate
Photo: Varga Attila, Wikimedia Commons
Of: Agnes Hellström
Foreign Minister Margot Wallström says in an interview in Svenska Dagbladet that she does not understand how arms exports to countries such as the Philippines concern feminist foreign policy. There are many examples that explain how Swedish arms exports affect women's rights, resources and influence, writes Agnes Hellström at Svenska Freds.
May 9, 2018, Debate
Date and time: 7 May, 18:00 - 19:30
Development optimist after all? Assistance is needed and can be useful, but it is not always easy to decide what is most important to invest in and then show results. The environment in which development assistance operates has always been complex. Today we know that aid-funded efforts to improve the world easily outweigh the power of it […]
Integration must take place on the terms of migrants, says Suleiman Abdulahi. Pictured is the Beacon of Hope peace statue in Belfast. Photo: William Murphy, Flickr.
Of: Jacob Kosharis
In today's Europe, it is difficult to avoid issues of migration and integration. This is perhaps even more true in the UK, given the country's imminent exit from the EU. It is against this background that the conversation with Suleiman Abdulahi from the organization Horn of Africa People's Aid Northern Ireland takes place.
May 3, 2018, FUF-correspondents