Creativity improves Zambia's reproductive health care

Contraceptives that work for several years and can be hidden, such as IUDs, can give women greater freedom. Photo: Donna G, Flickr

Of: Molly Jerlstrom

In Zambia, a quarter of women in need of family planning do not have access to it. Despite challenges with stigma and a lack of information, great progress is being made that gives women new opportunities and conditions in life. The development magazine has met Linnéa Wallén, who has visited Zambia to study gynecology in the country.

December 11, 2019, Interview

Meet the Swede who designed the global goals

Jakob Trollbäck and the global goals

Jakob Trollbäck is the one who has designed and created the communication around the global goals. Photo: Ainali and Wikimedia Commons

Of: Benjamin Hellström Blom

Communicating major UN documents to the world is no easy task. The Swedish designer Jakob Trollbäck took on the task of communicating the global goals to a broad global public. He created a grid of colors, symbols and simple words. In the podcast, Jakob Trollbäck talks about how it went when he scored the global goals […]

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October 24, 2019, FUF pods, Interview

Climate anxiety can be a driving force for change

Greta Thunberg and her commitment to the climate have caused waves around the world. Maybe we're close to a social global tipping point. Photo: Olivia Colacicco, Unsplash.

Of: Linn Above

Every second Swede experiences climate anxiety, DN states after a new opinion poll. At the organization Existential Vis, the therapist and researcher Maria Niemi works with inner sustainability. This addresses the increased need for emotional support that follows the climate crisis.

May 28, 2019, Interview

Nature's rights - a path to better climate awareness

Toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie, USA, due to pesticide residues leaking into the lake. Photo: Flickr

Of: Molly Jerlstrom

The climate issue is more relevant than ever. Concepts such as flight shame and climate anxiety dominate today's debates, which shows that the focus is primarily on the individual and on the emotional relationship to the threatened climate. Biologist and activist Pella Thiel instead wants to move our eyes and work for Sweden to give nature its own rights.

May 28, 2019, Interview

Menstruation and menstrual protection - constantly in need of development

Of: Molly Jerlström and Amanda Zuñiga Svensson

Menstruation has long been a taboo subject. The FUF magazine met Madeleine Fogde, program manager at SIANI. The bailiff has followed the development on the subject during his work to adapt toilets to girls' needs and to inform about menstruation and menstrual protection. We are met by Madeleine Fogde's energy when we step into an unassuming office in the Garrison on Östermalm. […]

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May 31, 2018, Interview