Climate - a security issue

Date and time: 26 Mar, 18:00 - 19:30

What security risks can be linked to climate change? What are context-based vulnerabilities, and what basic concepts can help us understand them? And what can the international community really do? We have invited Karolina Eklöw, who works on SIPRI's program for climate change and risks, to an armchair talk about climate and security.

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March 8, 2019, Events, Calendar, Webcast

Land, power and rights - on the situation of rural women in Latin America

Guillermina Kuno Huanca, indigenous leader from Bolivia, and Luz Dary Molina, smallholder leader from Colombia. Photo: The Latin American groups.

Date and time: 21 Mar, 18:00 - 19:30

Despite headwinds, Latin American women are fighting hard to be heard, to demand and to defend their rights. Two of these women are the indigenous leader Guillermina Kuno Huanca from Bolivia and the smallholder leader Luz Dary Molina from Colombia. They come to Sweden to talk about the situation for rural women in each country and about their organizations' work to strengthen women's participation in society and politics. FUF and the Latin American groups welcome you to a conversation about land, power and rights. The conversation is led by Marlene Sosa Mercado, program manager at the Latin American groups, and is interpreted from Spanish to Swedish.

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March 8, 2019, Events, Calendar, Podcast, Webcast