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In this episode of Forum for Change, Tamar Kikacheshvili from Civil Rights Defenders speaks to Olesya Bida and Yevheniia Lutsenko about the challenges of being young women journalists in the middle of a full-scale war, or in a “territory of men” as Olesya put it.

This episode is produced together with the Eastern Partnership Network, coordinated by ForumCiv. Find out more about our work at forumciv.org.

Climate justice must be a priority for all.  But what are we doing to mitigate the disproportionate impacts of climate change around the world?  
The Stockholm +50 conference, held in the first half of 2022, was a participatory space for civil society, companies and governments to come together to take concrete action on this issue. 
Interviewees:
Oscar Barajas - Latinamerikagrupperna 
Karin Gregow - ForumCiv
Ulrika Sandberg - Amnesty International Sweden
Flavia Cieplinski - Jordens Vänner
Yayoi Fujita Lagerqvist - Swedwatch
To know more about Forumciv visit our website Forumciv.org  and follow us on social media @ForumCiv.

Additional resources used in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wyddWrT90s
https://www.forumciv.org/sv/aktuellt/forumciv-pa-stockholm50 

In this episode of Forum for Change we dig into what role communication and advocacy play for development. Swedish based organizations Emmaus Stockholm, Fair Action and Östgruppen share experiences and some of the tools they use to create change.

Guests:
Caroline Nord, Emmaus Stockholm
Martin Uggla, Östgruppen
Charlie Aronsson, Fair Action

Host: Agnes Nygren, ForumCiv

Additional resources used in this episode:
 Belarus protests continue despite crackdown - BBC News - YouTube
Why Does Morocco Want To Boycott Sweden? - YouTube 
Business Matters - Six Months After Rana Plaza in Bangladesh - BBC Sounds 

Clowns without borders build their development interventions on humour. To create laughter that can help people in crisis and trauma to start living again, to build hope and a different society. In this episode we follow the stories of the Swedish and Brazilian chapters of the development clowns.

External resources used in this episode: 
Clowner utan Gränser i Rakhine 
Indien - Glädje till barnen i Mumbais red light district 
Två möten, Indien 2015, av Alex Hinchcliffe 
Absurdas Convivências  Episódio 2 – ConCertados 
Filippinerna - Glädje i sviterna av tyfonen Haiyan 
Absurdas Convivências  Episódio 5 - De volta à realidade 

In this first episode of our second season, we meet Alice, a Swedish teenager involved in a movement that is preparing a lawsuit against the Swedish government, and Sohanur, a young and prolific activist from Bangladesh who leads a youth network with an intersectional approach.
Continents apart, but joined in the same struggle for climate justice and part of a global citizenship to a degree no other generation has experienced.

Additional resources used in this episode:

Students around the world go on climate strike - YouTube (The Guardian)
Global Climate strike: Millions take to the streets to save the world
'Fridays for future' marches for climate change going global | DW News - YouTube
Emotional Greta Thunberg attacks world leaders: "How dare you?" - YouTube
It's Always the Economy, Stupid - Opinion - YouTube (Wall Street Journal) 

Belarus: people on the streets gathering, social media bursting with evidence of human rights violations, communities gathering together to talk, think and dream about change.
Why now, and what next? On this last episode of the first season, we talk with Ognjen Radjonic, manager of ForumCiv´s Eastern Europe regional office, about the different forces that combined to build up the perfect storm.  
On this second part, we learn more about the particularities of this "perfect storm", the extraordinary role of women in it, and the forecast of what might be happening in 2021, as an aftermath to the social and political crisis.

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As we are already brainstorming on the topics for the second season of the podcast, we would really appreciate to get your ideas on topics, guests, additional sections, in other words, any good idea you might have to make the second season of Forum for Change a much better initiative and showcase of the work of civil society around the world. You can share your ideas with us writing to forumforchange@forumciv.org.
Here you can find all the links o external resources used on this episode:
“Further protests in Belarus keep up pressure on Lukashenko” - BBC News - “Belarus  Week 21 of protests (28 Dec – 3 Jan)  Lukashenko became an honorary OMON officer” - Voice of Belarus “Belarus’ ongoing protests Examined” - ABC NewsWorld of Tanks War Stories Cinematic Trailer“Meet the pro-democracy Belarusian students forced to flee to Ukraine” - Kyiv Post“Women of Belarus A fearless cry for change  Talk to Al Jazeera In the Field” - Al Jazeera “In Belarus, protesters show pride, worry, empathy“ - Associated Press“Warning__These_graphic_videos_appear_to_show_a_member__of_a__special_police_or_military_unit_firing_his_weapon_in_the_direction_of_Alexander__Taraikovsky,_considered_the_first_victim_of_the_Belarusian_protests” - VOA News “Belarus police fire stun grenades as 100 000 protest” - Al Jazeera