Sverige kommer att fokusera mycket på jämställdhetsfrågor under året som ordförande för OSSE. Foto: Kaihsu Tai
Av: Sofia Kliukina
Under 2021 kommer Sverige att vara ordförande för Organisationen för säkerhet och samarbete i Europa (OSSE). Utvecklingsmagasinet har intervjuat Tove Wennergren, kommunikationsansvarig för Sveriges OSSE-sekretariat för ordförandeskapet 2021 om vilka perspektiv Sverige kan bidra med.
11 januari, 2021, Intervju
Trots pandemin måste EU ta ansvar för flyktingar som kommer till Europa och bemöta dem med respekt, skriver Frida Lamberth Wallensteen. Foto: Mstyslav Chernov, Unframe
Av: Frida Lamberth Wallensteen
Pandemin har bidragit till att världens landsgränser har förstärkts när länder kämpar mot covid-19. Som ett resultat ökar strömmen av flyktingar som drömmer om ett säkrare liv. Under 2020 har fler migranter än någonsin tagit sig till den spanska ö-världen. FN:s organisation för migrationsfrågor, IOM, har tagit fram statistik som visar att nära 80 000 […]
8 januari, 2021, Krönika
Photo: Borana Women,Ethiopia,Rod Waddington.Flickr.
Av: Ghadeer Hussein
Five years ago the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations and since then they have become a roadmap for global development. But are they relevant on the local level? Are they as universal as they claim to be?
30 december, 2020, English, Magazine, News article, Nyhet
Reducing our consumption and waste is the first step towards better waste management. Photo: Alan Stanton/ Flickr
Av: Maria Malmsten
Sustainable waste management is key for reaching many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Well planned waste management aims to reduce, reuse and recycle waste. I interviewed Tony Clark, CEO of Avfall Sverige, to discuss how to make waste management more sustainable.
29 december, 2020, Article, English, Intervju, Magazine
The water billboard set up in Lima, Peru, by the University of Technology in Lima enables locals to have access to free clean water. (“Photo: Plantamer blog post.”)
Doing more with less. This is how the economist Navi Radjou defines frugal innovations. Although it is an old practice, it is only now resurfacing as a smart and sustainable approach to international development. As this economic approach rethinks consumerism and resource management, can we look at it as the future of development?
27 december, 2020, Article, English, Magazine, Reportage
Monitoring global development requires agreed-upon data-collection methods for the coming years. Photo: Dan Gordon/Flickr.
Av: Alexandru Mocanu
Monitoring development is a complex area and not without unsettled issues. Those include insufficient data and limited consensus on how to measure progress. This also reflects upon monitoring progress towards achieving SDGs.
26 december, 2020, Article, English, Magazine, Reportage
Illustrating a school girl in Nepal. Photo: Wellington College (A trip to Nepal)/Flickr.
Av: Irina Martin
Along with my classmates from Lund University, together we wrote a project proposal which, fictionally, has been approved by the European Commission as part of the course assignment. After hours of discussion and reflections, the decision was to deal with the lack of menstrual health education and accessible menstrual products in the district of Chitwan […]
25 december, 2020, Chronicle, English, Krönika, Magazine
Photo: Gerry Machen/Flickr
Climate change threatens the world as we know it and the need for climate action is getting more pressing every day. The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on oil prices opens the door to a green recovery without fossil fuel subsidies.
22 december, 2020, Article, English, Magazine, Reportage
Morten Kjaerum, Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights (“Photo: FUF Lund/RWI Lund”)
Av: Chiara D’Agni och Yi-Chia Chen
Human rights cities, as Lund, is a new phenomenon and according to a recent report by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) they can better contribute to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). FUF Magazine has interviewed the Director of the RWI, Morten Kjaerum, to talk about SDGs and human rights cities.
21 december, 2020, Article, English, Intervju, Magazine
I skuggan av coronapandemin forsätter polarisarna att smälta. Foto: Melissa Bradley, Unsplash
Av: Mimmi Thor
Vi befinner oss i en kris, en pandemi och en vardag med många livsomställningar. Covid-19 kräver åtgärder för att samhällen ska kunna hålla huvudet över ytan, men behovet av krishantering stannar dessvärre inte där. En kris tar inte paus, trots att vi är upptagna med en annan.
21 december, 2020, Krönika
