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This year's FUF award winner David Isaksson on reviewing aid: "The difficult thing is often knowing what to ask for"
Of: Karin Klerby
It is now clear that David Isaksson, editor-in-chief and founder of Global Bar Magazine, will receive the FUF Award 2025. The development magazine managed to exchange a few words with the winner, who is currently in the city of Ahmedabad in India.
December 23
FUF news, FUF pods, News
The FUF podcast is back!
Of: Karin Klerby
Now you can listen to the FUF podcast again. You can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
December 23
Interview
Reduced aid hits global SRHR and LGBTQI work hard
Of: Meklit Teklu
The share of Swedish aid going to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) has decreased by 35 percent since 2018, according to a new report from RFSU. Utvecklingsmagasinet has spoken to the Liberian Amplifying Rights Network (ARN) and the Swedish RFSL about the consequences of the cuts.
December 17
Think piece
With privilege as a tailwind and aiming for Gaza
Of: Nora Sargin
When more than 500 activists from 44 countries defied an occupying force earlier this year, bodies served as shields, privileges as tools, and humanitarian aid as the only cargo.
December 17
News
Israel attacks Beirut days after visit to occupied Syrian territories
Israel carried out an airstrike on southern Beirut on Sunday, breaking a fragile ceasefire with Lebanon. The attacks come days after Israeli President Netanyahu made a criticized visit to occupied areas in southern Syria.
November 25
News
Women's rights not on the agenda as India moves closer to Taliban rule
On October 10, India's Ministry of External Affairs welcomed a delegation from the Taliban regime to Delhi. The country will reopen an embassy in Kabul and express its deep interest in Afghanistan's development and progress. The visit has drawn widespread criticism of India's prioritization of women's rights.
28 October 2025
Analysis, FUF-correspondents
Syria went to elections but democracy is delayed
After decades of war and dictatorship, Syrians went to the polls in October for the first time since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The new transitional government, led by the former rebel movement Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), describes the election as the beginning of a new political era. But for many Syrians it is more about survival than democracy, and many wonder whether anything has really changed.
23 October 2025
News
Reform demands were met in earnest as a UN in crisis met in New York
Of: Nora Sargin
When world leaders gathered in New York for the UN's 80th high-level week, UNGA80, UN reform and the Palestinian issue were in focus, while President Trump took the opportunity to show his distrust of the organization. In retrospect, experts say that both gender equality and reality-based reform of the humanitarian systems have been sidelined.
22 October 2025
Analysis, FUF-correspondents
Trump's peace plan for Gaza leaves refugees out
President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza is being praised by the outside world, but the perspective and rights of refugees are conspicuous by their absence. That the same president who talks about peace for Gaza describes people on the run as "an attack on Western countries and their borders" rings hollow for Palestinians hoping to return home, writes FUF's Brussels correspondent Signe M. Andersson.
21 October 2025
News
UNHCR: “$300 million needed before the end of the year”
Of: Fredrik Govenius
Cuts in aid money in national budgets have led to the need for at least $300 million in flexible funds before the end of the year, according to Filippo Grandi, head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, who believes that the economic crisis that the UNHCR is experiencing leaves “no country, no sector, and no partner” untouched.
20 October 2025
Debate
Young people must be given tools to build the future of global cooperation
Of: Lennart Wohlgemuth & Jonas Ewald
By reducing young people's opportunities to build knowledge, commitment and global experience, Sweden risks sawing off the branch on which future international cooperation rests, argue Jonas Ewald, senior lecturer in peace and development research, and Lennart Wohlgemuth, who has researched and worked with international development cooperation for decades.
8 October 2025
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