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1. Tackling the COVID-19 Crisis the Wrong Swedish and Effective Indian Way

(OPINION)

... until 19th century, and according to the IMF estimates for 2020, Indian economy is over USD 11.3 Trillion whereas Swedish economy is over USD 529.7 Billion. For centuries, India has been a victim of ...

Created on 30 May 2020

2. The Nuclear Weapon States Urged to Advance Disarmament

(Nuclear Weapons)

... that nuclear order is on the right track forward". Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde said that the meeting, which was co-hosted by Sweden, is also "a way to involve women and the youth in the talk over ...

Created on 06 January 2021

3. Most Africans Will Not Receive Corona Vaccine This Year

(Africa)

... $92 million, Kenya can buy more doses, enough to vaccinate 30 per cent of its citizens. AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical company and part of COVAX, said it will provide vaccines ...

Created on 04 January 2021

4. How Nigerians Remember Maradona

(OPINION)

... in the 1958 World Cup final hosted by that country, which Sweden lost 5-2 to Brazil, has been described in a CNN article as “one of the greatest in World Cup history.”  A Swedish opponent said after ...

Created on 10 December 2020

5. Black Holes Pervade the Spirit of 2020

(OPINION)

... evidence to confirm a theory. Or at least theory alone is not enough for the Nobel Prize and the Swedish Academy that privilege experimental physics over theory. This was the argument against giving Einstein ...

Created on 22 November 2020

6. African Teens on World Stage Demand Action on Climate Change

(Africa)

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has at least two African partners stepping up on the global stage and telling world leaders to “wake ...

Created on 14 October 2020

7. Peaceful Resistance Has Proved to Be More Effective Than Violent Protests

(OPINION)

... are still marching every weekend. In the United Kingdom, the anti-Brexit marches last year were mammoth. Also, that year and this, Extinction Rebellion, sparked in part by the protests of the Swedish ...

Created on 13 October 2020

8. Beijing +25: Overcoming 21st Century Challenges to Deliver for Africa's Wome

(OPINION)

... from September 2020 edition of Africa Renewal. Photo: In Chad and other countries where it is working, SWEDD-The Swedish Development Aid Organization has already provided professional training to almost ...

Created on 28 September 2020

9. The Navalny Case: Why Hasn't Germany Sent Samples of the Tests to WHO

(OPINION)

... sent samples of the poison to allies, France and Sweden, but not to Russia. The Germans, French and Swedish may be reasoning that because Novichok was invented by Russia the media and public opinion will ...

Created on 22 September 2020

10. The Mystery of The Poisoning of Alexei Navalny

(OPINION)

... Swedish prime minister, Olof Palme, in 1986, when an unknown individual, acting on his own impulses, shot Palme dead in the street as he emerged from a cinema. There were many people in Sweden, including ...

Created on 15 September 2020

11. EU Subsidies Benefit Big Farms While Underfunding Greener and Poorer Plots

(OPINION)

... Sustainability Science at Lund University; Mark Brady is Associate Professor in Agricultural and Environmental Economics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. . This article was ...

Created on 24 August 2020

12. We Need A One-World Monitoring System to Watch and Destroy Viruses

(OPINION)

... plan”. In Europe and America, the Swedish “light touch” model was often misunderstood and ridiculed. Now we can see it was the right one. Its economy is the best performing of large economies in Western ...

Created on 04 August 2020

13. Could Coronavirus Be Burning Out After 20 Percent of a Population Is Infected?

(OPINION)

... to the virus with as little as 20 percent infected – a proportion well below the widely accepted herd immunity threshold (60-70 percent). The Swedish public health authority announced in late April that ...

Created on 08 July 2020

14. We Won't Have a Truly Global Economy Until People Start Taxing It That Wa

(OPINION)

... spending that occurs within a country, but they are problematic in the sense that they are regressive (as Roberts notes). On the other hand, this is the Swedish model. In the 1970s, Sweden’s high income ...

Created on 01 July 2020

15. Conference Raises $130m for UN Palestinian Refugee Agency

(Poverty)

... special pledging conference was "A Strong UNRWA in a Challenging World" – Mobilizing Collective Action". Jordan's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi and Swedish Minister for International ...

Created on 24 June 2020

16. Postponement of NPT Review Conference Offers an Opportunity

(OPINION)

... Distinguished Associate Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPIRI); Fellow, Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences; former Ambassador of Sweden to the United States, former Executive ...

Created on 15 May 2020

17. COVID-19: Why the Nordics are Our Best Bet for Comparing Strategies

(OPINION)

... to have definite answers about what works best, interesting insights can already be gleaned. The Swedish approach to COVID-19 could not be more different from its neighbours, placing much of the responsibility ...

Created on 09 April 2020

18. Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels Can Kill Us

(OPINION)

... to "study economics" At the 2020 Davos Forum, teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg urged business leaders to divest from the catastrophic activities of the fossil fuel industries. She was rebuked ...

Created on 14 March 2020

19. Youth Call for Human Rights to Be at The Core of Climate Talks

(Climate Action)

... in the centre of climate action. Spearheaded by the social movement ‘Fridays for Future’ initiated by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the youth been calling for social participation in the decision-making ...

Created on 12 December 2019

20. Climate Change – What is in Store for Sri Lanka?

(OPINION)

... Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist and the initiator of the school strikes for climate in September 2019, which were attended by over four million people, will be there too. Speaking ...

Created on 05 December 2019

21. UN Women Is Criticized for Appearing to Take Sides on Decriminalizing ‘Sex Work’

(Gender Equality)

... lives. "Advocates for this approach, sometimes called the Swedish or Nordic model, claim that it helps sex workers because it targets the market for sex work, not the sex workers themselves," he wrote. ...

Created on 20 October 2019

22. The World Is on a Breakneck Course Towards Barbarisation

(OPINION)

... mobilisation. A young Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, has done more with her stubbornness to raise awareness about impending climate change than the entire political system. Even Trump (albeit for electoral ...

Created on 01 August 2019

23. Generation 2030 in the Nordic Countries Tackles SDGs

(EU & Europe)

... “Are you going to be the first generation who makes a change – or the last who doesn’t?” Swedish schoolgirl activist Greta Thunberg, who started the climate strikes that have now grown into a global ...

Created on 26 May 2019

24. The Campaign Against Greta is an Index of the Loss of Values

(Climate Action)

... and demonisation has started against Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who started the movement. After searching the media, social media and websites, this campaign can be divided into four different ...

Created on 28 March 2019

25. The System, Youth and Democracy

(Climate Action)

... with a lot of mileage, even kissed the hand of Greta Thunberg. She is the 16-year-old Swedish girl who, frustrated with the pace of government action to deal with climate change, launched a "school strike ...

Created on 24 March 2019

26. UN Chief Emboldens the 'Fridays for Future' Climate Movemen

(Climate Action)

... and Uganda and the Philippines and Nepal – countries acutely impacted by climate change. They were inspired by the tireless campaigning of 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who has been ...

Created on 15 March 2019

27. Powerful Grassroots Movements Boost Hope for Human Rights, Says UN Chief

(UN INSIDER)

... while holding your breath.’” Bachelet also hailed the young climate activists inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg. The 16-year-old who had grabbed the attention of the world’s media, recently ...

Created on 25 February 2019

28. Folke Bernadotte, A Forgotten Humanitarian With Legendary Will Power

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Many know about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat in Budapest, who led his embassy in a successful attempt to issue “protective passports” to ...

Created on 15 January 2019

29. 'Right Livelihood' Awards to Visionary Global Citizen

(GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP)

... system in Saudi Arabia." Among others receiving the Swedish prize is smallholder farmer Yacouba Sawadogo of Burkina Faso, recognized for his efforts to turn barren land into forest and demonstrate how ...

Created on 28 November 2018

30. Africa's High-Tech Path to Energy Inclusio

(Africa)

... Department of International Development has agreed to co-fund money raised through Energise Africa, the wider crowdfunding platform, used by BBOXX in the example cited above.  Meanwhile, the Swedish ...

Created on 31 October 2018

31. The Forgotten Saga of Mass Murders in Guatemala

(OPINION)

... wrote a long article for Prospect magazine in 2009, "In Search of the Swedish Soul". He forwarded this and his previous Viewpoints for publication in IDN-INPS Copyright: Jonathan Power. Website www.jonathanpowerjournalist.com. ...

Created on 11 September 2018

32. Sweden's Political Balance Threatened by Immigration Debat

(OPINION)

... where drug gangs shoot each other but almost never ordinary people, the murder rate has gone up by two the last year. According to the official Swedish Crime Survey the number of "confirmed cases of lethal ...

Created on 04 September 2018

33. The Indigenous Peoples, TRIPS & Biodiversity Convention

(UN INSIDER)

... case of ilosone, the conus toxin, and the collection of blood samples of indigenous peoples by a Swedish University, all of which have not complied with the requirement of FPIC and benefit-sharing. While ...

Created on 17 August 2018

34. A Nobel Laureate who was 'the Most Homeless, Rootless Person

(ARTS & CULTURE)

...  A pioneer of postcolonial literature, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. In awarding the Prize, the Swedish Academy praised his work "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible ...

Created on 15 August 2018

35. A Call To 'Action Now' On United Nations Disarmament Agend

(OPINION)

... (or “Knotted Gun”) sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd on display at the UN Visitors' Plaza. Credit: UN IDN is flagship agency of the International Press Syndicate. facebook.com/IDN.GoingDeeper ...

Created on 18 June 2018

36. Security Council Backs Dutch Sanctions Against Eritrean and Libyan Traffickers

(Africa)

... to The Guardian and a Swedish documentary, the real Medhanie was recently confirmed to be operating with a Ugandan passport from Kampala. Another Eritrean trafficker said to have a central role is Angosom ...

Created on 10 June 2018

37. UN Peacekeeping Needs Thorough Reform

(OPINION)

... peacekeepers following the Swedish example. It’s not enough. UN soldiers should be rotated home more often so that sexual frustration can be more easily contained. The UN should set up its own court ...

Created on 27 February 2018

38. 134-Nation Group Garners Support for SDG 9 at UNIDO Meeting

(UN INSIDER)

... were key themes of the meeting, according to the Deputy to the Director General of UNIDO, Hiroshi Kuniyoshi. Per-Einar Tröften from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) stated ...

Created on 02 December 2017