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Sveriges jämställdhetsmål i Afghanistan

Hansson Lundblad, Linnea LU (2013) MRSG20 20122
Human Rights Studies
Abstract
Afghanistan is the one country in the world with the most oppression against women. Meanwhile, Sweden, which is one of Afghanistan's many aid-givers, is one of the countrys in the world with most equality between men and women. Equality and women's rights are thereby a priority in Sweden international development strategies, as well is the Swedish strategy for their developing-aid in Afghanistan. Spivak and other postcolonial theorists argue that democracy, human rights and gender equality is a Western concept that you have to stay critical to. My question is if Sweden's development cooperation with Afghanistan of post colonialist nature or is consistent with Afghanistan's vision for gender equality and women's rights? To answer this I... (More)
Afghanistan is the one country in the world with the most oppression against women. Meanwhile, Sweden, which is one of Afghanistan's many aid-givers, is one of the countrys in the world with most equality between men and women. Equality and women's rights are thereby a priority in Sweden international development strategies, as well is the Swedish strategy for their developing-aid in Afghanistan. Spivak and other postcolonial theorists argue that democracy, human rights and gender equality is a Western concept that you have to stay critical to. My question is if Sweden's development cooperation with Afghanistan of post colonialist nature or is consistent with Afghanistan's vision for gender equality and women's rights? To answer this I conduct a comparative analysis between relevant documents of different sort. (Less)
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author
Hansson Lundblad, Linnea LU
supervisor
organization
course
MRSG20 20122
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
sverige, afghanistan, postkolonialism, jämställdhet, utvecklingsstrategier, Human rights, mänskliga rättigheter
language
Swedish
id
3359025
date added to LUP
2013-02-26 11:51:37
date last changed
2014-09-04 08:27:35
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  abstract     = {{Afghanistan is the one country in the world with the most oppression against women. Meanwhile, Sweden, which is one of Afghanistan's many aid-givers, is one of the countrys in the world with most equality between men and women. Equality and women's rights are thereby a priority in Sweden international development strategies, as well is the Swedish strategy for their developing-aid in Afghanistan. Spivak and other postcolonial theorists argue that democracy, human rights and gender equality is a Western concept that you have to stay critical to. My question is if Sweden's development cooperation with Afghanistan of post colonialist nature or is consistent with Afghanistan's vision for gender equality and women's rights? To answer this I conduct a comparative analysis between relevant documents of different sort.}},
  author       = {{Hansson Lundblad, Linnea}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Sveriges jämställdhetsmål i Afghanistan}},
  year         = {{2013}},
}