av Erik Carlqvist ALMEDALSVECKAN I VISBY är en tillställning utöver det vanliga. Ledande svenska aktörer inom politik, näringsliv, forskning och civilsamhälle samlas i den medeltida staden på Gotland för att diskutera, debattera, och övertyga lyssnare om sina hjärtefrågor. Visby förvandlas under en vecka till en debatt- och kunskapscentral, och gatorna…
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By Quentin Machado Uttryck Magazine, in collaboration with Radio UF, interviewed two weeks ago Dr. Namira Negm on the state of affairs between Israel and Palestine. Former Legal Counsel of the African Union, notably defending Palestine before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), she delivered, thanks to her extensive experience,…
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By Tekle Makashvili and Salome Berdzenishvili “PEOPLE’S RIVER will never stop flowing, flowing from the country’s heart,” reads the long fabric banner on the streets, protesting the Russian regime in Tbilisi, Georgia. The country, situated in the Caucasus, has been independent for more than thirty turbulent years since the collapse…
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On the 24th of April of 2024, the Uppsala Association of Foreign Affairs welcomed Karl Yves Vallin, Managing Director at RFSL Utbildning, a Swedish NGO, to discuss about the setback faced by the LGBTQ+ community in Indonesia. Indonesia, the worlds largest Muslim-majority country, demonstrated a high level of openness towards…
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By Emma Hansson “ART IS NOT SUPPOSED to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world”. This is how the french artist JR gave grounds for his illegal street art exhibitions, such as his 2007 Face2Face project on…
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Av Elias El Manira Den 7 oktober vaknar jag med känslan av att jag inte vet tillräckligt. Det första jag gör varje morgon direkt efter det att jag vaknar är att kolla i mobilen, så jag har nog den känslan varje dag. Jag blir inte alltid klokare av detta, men…
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By Anton Golovko Hjälm WHEN THE BOLSHEVIKS dissolved the Constituent Assembly of Russia, they did so reasoning that the “will of the people” expressed itself through revolutionary action, rather than debates in parliament. Under the slogan “All power to the Soviets!” Vladimir Lenin proclaimed that to share power with an…
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Radio UF interviewed four of Uttryck’s writers on their article and research published in the Fall 2023 printed issue “One World Under The Sun”. The Many Failures of European Foreign Policy Anton Golovko, journalist at Uttryck Magazine, and Oscar Hemborg, broadcaster at Radio UF, dive into a critical analysis of…
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By Kate Gilbertson GLOBALISATION HAS INCREASED awareness of the greater world as communication and trade across borders have eased. In other words, we are more connected than ever before. Yet conversations on the impacts of globalisation have insofar neglected the critical discussion on how the most fundamental, local forms of…
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The first program of the semester explores the “glocal” landscape of gender equality and the role of local democracy, delving into the impactful work of civil societies, the trends of gender equality in Asia and Latin America, and the theory of change in local democracy. From Guatemala to India and…
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