Current debate is back with a fresh FUF editorial team and new analyses of the conversations on the Swedish debate and editorial pages! During the previous week, many columns have been devoted to discussions about President Trump's decision to impose trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada. But beyond this, attention has also been paid to the global development of women's reproductive health. When President Trump is expected to pull the rug out from under aid organizations in these sectors, Sweden and the EU are urged to increase their efforts.
I Expressen pay attention Ann-Charlotte Marteus to Trump reinstated “the global gag rule”. Rthe rule that means that recipients of American federal aid are in principle not allowed to inform about Abortion as an option in case of unwanted pregnancies.
Mthe uncavle rule harms all kinds of reproductive health efforts, but also the work against infectious diseases such as TB, Zika and Ebola, angryMarteus comments and men the Swedewish government into action.
- Whatever the Tidö parties thought about the red-greens' feminist foreign policy, Sweden must now become a feminist force in aid., urges she.
I Today's ETC urges the centrist MEP Abir Al-Sahlani also EU to strengthen its role Inom women's reproductive health.
– Women should not die because they are women and we cannot just stand by and watch. The EU must now strengthen its role as a global champion for women's rights and increase its assistance to work on sexual and reproductive health. The EU should at least match the commitment that the US had on the issue until Trump, she urges.
Women's and girls' reproductive health also became a topic of debate when the world marked the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation on February 9th.
–We need to talk about how the climate crisis is not just about temperatures and precipitation, but also has enormously serious consequences for girls' rights, writes Louise Frisk, Secretary General of aid organization Amref Health Africa The Nordics in a debate stylehug in Global Bar Magazine.
Despite the fact that UN member states have decided to abolish gender stereotypesmopening so rstill ice cream approximately 4,4 one million girls and women to be exposed bara and is 2025. Framparts in the area despite that FGM is now increasing in some areas, argumentseNice and healthy.
In East Africa, climate changeeffects of strikes against agriculture and animal husbandryand and thus against families provision. A coneekvens is that fgirls are forced to interrupt their studies, are married off with a dowry and forced to undergo gender stereotypempeng. Now when the international aid is facing major changes and several countries are experiencing an economic downturn, must not kgender issues and girls' rights to fade into the background, she argues.
It is a simplification to only consider gender stereotypes.mopening as a culturally conditioned phenomenon. We do should be linked to poverty and desperation. Addressing the underlying problems is theis because is a prerequisite for reversing the trend says Frisk.
“Climate justice is a gender equality issue—and a fight for girls’ right to grow up whole, strong, and free. Girls’ futures depend on it,” she concludes.
The EU must triple when Trump betrays women
Abir Al-Sahlani, (C) Member of the European Parliament, ETC
Sweden should take the lead when Trump threatens women's lives
Ann-Charrlotte Marteus, Expressen
The climate crisis increases the risk of female genital mutilation
Louise Frisk, Amref Health Africa Nordic, Global Bar Magazine
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