Global Aktions podcast

Global Aktions podcast

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Global Aktions podcast episodes

  • THURSDAY TALK: Muhammad Shehada on the aid industry in Gaza: Pacification, Power and Resistance

    The Gaza Strip has over 1200 NGOs and civil society organizations and receives hundreds of millions in humanitarian and development aid annually. Yet, life in the besieged enclave has been only regressing from bad to worse to unlivable. This talk will discuss the peculiarities and contradictions of counterinsurgency in Gaza, where aid works as a "pacifying pill," "a painkiller" or "anesthetic," in the words of its recipients. Two examples will be discussed in-depth take: 1- The aid and NGO industry, and how buzzwords like youth teams, women empowerment and leadership skills, and the scramble for funding are undermining organized civil society. 2- The 2019 "cash for calm" understandings, whereby Israel allowed Qatari cash to enter Gaza in suitcases, in return for local authorities providing Israel with calm at the borders. The core point will be to highlight how humanitarianism could lead to de-development, could become an integral part to an economy of violence that serves to contain rather than improve; in other words, to sustain the status quo. The discussion will be concluded with policy-oriented remarks on avenues for change and improvement. This talk does not intend to discredit development and relief aid per se. To the contrary, aid is indispensable to Gaza’s survival given its worsening living conditions. The aim is rather to critically highlight what kind of implications the aid industry in Gaza produces on the receiving end, in order to call for more constructive engagements that genuinely alleviate suffering rather than contain it. Muhamad Shehada is a Palestinian writer and political analyst, columnist in the Forward and contributor to Newsweek and Haaretz. His work appeared in Al-Jazeera, VICE, and the Nation among others. This event is part of the Thursday Talks events series at Global Aktion where every Thursday at 7pm we invite you to our office at Wesselsgade 2, Copenhagen: At the Thursday Talks, we gather for talks and panel discussions on topics that range from political analyses of Turkey to the interlinkages between class and climate crisis

    1 hr 11 min
  • EU, Marokko og Vestsahara

    Vidste du, at et af Afrikas lande har været besat siden kolonitiden - og at Marokko er besættelsesmagten?

    Vestsahara er landet som ikke mange danskere kender til - og da slet ikke historien om da Spanien opgav sin kolonimagtstatus og Marokko tog over. Saharawierne kæmpede imod besættelsen indtil våbenhvilen i 1991, med lovning om en folkeafstemning.
    Men der kom aldrig, til dags dato, nogen afstemning. Den har Vestsaharas folk, saharawierne, ventet på lige siden.
    Ca. 180.000 mennesker bor som følge af dette i flygtningelejre i Algeriets ørken.
    Lyt med på denne podcast, og hør om EUs forhandlinger om handelsaftaler med Marokko om landbrugsvarer og fisk - skammeligt nok fra Vestsaharas territorium. På trods af saharawiernes protester.

    22 min
  • Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights & EU

    I denne podcast vil du blive gjort klogere på hvordan det internationale samfund, gennem FN, er i færd med at aftale en bindende traktat der skal holde transnationale virksomheder ansvarlige for brud på menneskerettigheder.

    Første afsnit tager dig igennem traktatens indhold og hvad den helt præcist vil have af afgørende betydning for menneskerettigheder fremadrettet.

    18 min

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Global Aktion podcast er din vej til kritisk lyd i ørerne. Vi undersøger handelsaftaler, Due Dilligence og EU's ansvar på klimaområdet.