Migration & Sweden's role in humanitarian crises
Date and time: 22 Oct, 12:00 - 13:00
October 18, 2018, Events, Internal link, Calendar
Previous events
Here you will find all previous seminars and events organized by the Association for Development Issues and our local groups around Sweden.International Girls' Day: Teenage girls on the run - time to act
Photo: Plan International
Date and time: 11 Oct, 15:00 - 16:30
Teenage girls are often one of the most vulnerable groups in crisis situations. The risk of being exposed to violence, sexual abuse and child marriage increases when everyday life collapses. At the same time, we see how these girls' needs fall between the cracks - they are neither children nor adults and relief efforts based on what the girls want and need are rarely prioritized. Plan International and FUF pay attention to International Girls' Day with a seminar on teenage girls in crisis and conflict.
Development Talks: Capacity and Ownership - New Ways of Working
Date and time: 27 Sep, 09:00 - 12:00
Developing capacity is a key element in most development cooperation. As a method, external support for capacity development has evolved considerably, and recent evaluations give us a pretty good idea of what works and what does not. Sweden has a brand-new strategy for 'Capacity building, partnership and methods for supporting Agenda 2030 for sustainable development'. An […]
Does aid benefit Afghanistan?
New Khalid Ebni Walid Girls' School. Photo: Anders Rosén
Date and time: 26 Sep, 18:00 - 19:30
Welcome to a seminar on the effects of aid in Afghanistan. Many countries and organizations have been conducting aid in Afghanistan, both humanitarian aid and more long-term development cooperation, since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. This seminar will shed light on and try to answer questions such as: • What good is aid when parts of the country are at war? Does it work […]
Acknowledge your world anxiety: Migration
Date and time: 4 July, 18:00 - 18:45
Every day, 28,300 people are forced to flee their homes from conflict and persecution. The situation is crisis-like, but in Sweden there is no longer any talk of a "refugee crisis". We got our respite. Unfortunately, the migrants have not received theirs. How do we rekindle the debate? And what does it take to create change? After confessing our world anxiety in […]
June 12, 2018, Almedalen - event, Almedalen - video, Events, Calendar, Podcast, Webcast
Acknowledge your world anxiety: #metoo
Date and time: 3 July, 18:00 - 18:45
1 in 3 women on the planet is beaten or raped during their lifetime. Sexual harassment affects many more. The problem knows no bounds - #metoo proved that. Online activism is a step forward, but will everyone join? Can the accumulated frustration lead to global change? After confessing our world anxiety in Almedalen 2016 […]
June 12, 2018, Almedalen - event, Almedalen - video, Events, Calendar, Podcast, Webcast
Acknowledge your world anxiety: The climate
Date and time: 2 July, 18:00 - 18:45
The earth is on its knees, and if everyone in the world lived and consumed like the Swedes, it would look even worse. At the same time, the sustainability movement is growing. More and more people are transforming climate anxiety into climate action. How does it happen? And what does it take to trigger real change? After confessing our world anxiety in Almedalen 2016 and doing a […]
June 12, 2018, Almedalen - event, Almedalen - video, Events, Calendar, Podcast, Webcast
Prospects for a world free of nuclear weapons
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 […]
Agenda 2030 - that is where we stand today
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 […]
Gun-Britt Andersson - development optimist after all?
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 […]