Venezuela's flag, which is at the heart of this week's debate.
Of: Celina Lindgren
This week's debaters have focused on the whole world when the Davos summit ends and Venezuela enters political turmoil. At the same time, the political situation in Turkey is being discussed. Although the debaters are based on different continents, they agree that the outside world must react and take responsibility for human rights and democracy.
January 30, 2019, Current debate
The world's economic and political leaders meet at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Photo: US Embassy Bern / Eric Bridiers
Of: Christina Arvidsson
This week, the World Economic Forum is being held in Davos, Switzerland. There, some of the world's most influential business leaders and politicians meet to try to solve global problems. Based on the meeting in Davos, several debate articles have discussed both climate policy and the importance of transparency among the power elite.
January 23, 2019, Current debate
Anna-Karin Gauding, FUF laureate 2018.
Of: The Chancellery
It is now clear that the 2018 FUF Prize will be awarded to Anna-Karin Gauding. She has worked for several decades in Latin America to promote democracy, human rights and international exchanges. In addition, she has created many bonds between people in Sweden and Latin America.
January 21, 2019, News
The youth organization Push Sweden was present at COP24 last week. But they did not feel very welcome.
Of: Madeleine Norman and Saga Jonsson
Civil society's participation in the climate summit in Poland, COP24, has been met with reluctance and disinterest. It has been difficult to get housing, access to the negotiations and even to enter the country for some. The politicians' reluctance to listen is clear, even though it is our future they are endangering, writes the youth organization PUSH Sweden.
December 13, 2018, Debate
Of: Louise Christianson
Before the Cambodia - Human Rights Exception seminar, I did not know much about the country, except that Cambodia had a history of colonialism and civil war, and that human rights are not respected. One of the speakers at the seminar is Thomas Hammarberg, who has been the UN Special Representative for Human Rights in Cambodia. He reproduces a short […]
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December 6, 2018, Chronicle
We need to remember history to stop today's threat to democracy, writes Anders Lindberg in Aftonbladet. Here is a memorial site after the massacre in Srebrenica in Bosnia in 1995. Photo: Jolle Visset (CC BY 2.0)
Of: Maja Sundstrand
Last week's debate spreads uneasily between several areas related to global developments - from environmental issues in international trade to antibiotic resistance. But what dominates the debate are issues that connect scars from the past and contemporary threats to democracy and human rights.
November 14, 2018, Current debate
Ager volunteers in Uppsala. Photo: Josefin Casteryd / icon
Of: The action volunteers
The new social climate in Sweden threatens not only vulnerable groups but also activists. We now notice a threat against people who are committed to global justice. This is a serious democracy problem. It is time for the government to take its responsibility, write young activists within the Church of Sweden's international work and the Church of Sweden's Youth.
September 27, 2018, Debate
Of: Fredrik Malm
The Liberals want Swedish aid to go to countries that invest in development and democracy. Democratic reforms reduce corruption and at the same time benefit countries' economies. This is what the Liberals' foreign policy spokesman Fredrik Malm writes.
July 30, 2018, Debate
Photo: Hamid Ershad Sarabi, WikiMediaCommons
Of: Kerstin Lundgren
Individuals' freedom to decide over their own lives forms the basis of the world the Center Party wants to see. That is why we stand up for the XNUMX% target in development aid, prioritize the poorest countries and want more money to go to local actors who know their communities. Local and equal participation is crucial for development, writes the Center Party's foreign policy spokesperson Kerstin Lundgren.
June 11, 2018, Debate
Samiland. Photo: Alexander Cahlenstein, Flickr
Of: Britta Bamert
Sámieatnan duoddariid, dáid sámi mánáid ruovttu galbma geađge guorba guovlu sámi mánáid ruoktu Sámiland's wide expanses home to Sámi children cold barren rocky realm home of Sámi children These are the first lines of the Sámi Artist Sofia Jannok's song, in the English translation named Wide Open Tundra of the Sámiland. The Sámi people represent the indigenous population […]
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June 4, 2018, Paper, English, FUF Lund, Magazine
