And now? The images incoming from Afghanistan are dramatic: masses of people flocking to the airport trying to escape. The fear is great. Women are among the first objectives of the dramatic talibans’ extremist regime: they have already been removed from their workplaces, some schools and universities have been closed to them and in some…
Category: Peace & Conflicts
Environmental costs of the Syrian Civil War
The devastating civil war in Syria entered its tenth year. A decade of war has caused one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world of an estimated death toll of 384,000-593,100 people as of December 2020. Besides, the displacement of approximately 12.7 million people, with nearly 6.1 million displaced internally struggling to survive. The ongoing long war has…
Destination: a place at which to preserve one’s future
This could be the story of one of the hundred thousand of young people who felt tired, hopeless and without future and who one day decided to abandon their place of residence for a better way of living and developing their future. In the era of economic exile, it wouldn’t be anything strange to hear…
Peace Winds After The Kurdish Spring
By Pinar Temocin / Image via AK Rockefeller The Kurdish question has been considered as an important issue in struggling to build an independent nation. They are the second largest ethnic group living partly in the eastern part of Turkey with their own language, traditions and customs. The Kurds are considered as a stateless nation…
Holocaust Remembrance Day
As we know “History is the best teacher with worst pupils”. On 27th of January we should remind the planet, how we as a human beings can be mistaken if we are following issues based on hate and fears. We all remember what happened with Jewish minority in Europe during second world war, but as…
The Corrupted Value of Political Truth
By Pinar Temocin / Image via Acción Poética Francia It is a perplexing relationship between political truth and its innate value in the current political arena. There is also a contradiction between the structure of morality within the populists and the actions of politicians. Perhaps this relationship has never been clear and/or concrete. There exists a…
Refugees’ crisis: Berkasovo / Bapska border crossing
Human Rights monitoring 28. – 30. 10. 2015 I have spent 3 days on Serbian-Croatian border in Berkasovo (SR) as a volunteer involved in the grass root, self-organized and self-named “Czech Team”. During that time there were more than 100 volunteers working and an absolute majority were from the Czech Rep. The main task of…
Living in a state of war
We hear updates about the war in Eastern Ukraine every day. There are so many, that it is easy to become immune to another dramatic news that reach us. ‘Us’ living far away from the conflict zone. Do we ever wonder how is it like to live in a country which is under attack or…
Responsibility to Protect: The problem with neglecting its political dimension
This post was originally published in April of 2013 Seeing children dying at the horn of Africa makes us feel guilty, seeing the piles of dead bodies in the streets of Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda as well makes us feel that we just bluntly have to do something against it. That we have…
Eliminating Racial Discrimination – Abolishing the Borders within Ourselves
By Joshua Miguel Makalintal (FYEG, Junge Grüne) Today, the world will observe the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. This year’s theme is “learning from historical tragedies to combat racial discrimination today”. Indeed, as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said, this day serves as an “opportunity to renew our commitment to building a world…