Human trafficking, a term used to define a situation where people including children are tricked, forced or threatened in order to be transported to other parts of that country or another country all together where they are coerced to work in factories or enter the sex trade. Those destined for factories become imprisoned with no…
Elections in Finland
In the elections for the Finnish parliament on 16 March, the Greens League increased its seats from 11 to 14 (8,0% of votes, 28 000 new votes). This is a victory for the party: we were able to grow from the category of around 10 seats (the result in the three previous elections 1991, 1995…
Tear down the walls in your head!
As it was mentioned in the last issue of “Ecosprinter“, the Migration Campaign is going to be the main topic in the agenda of FYEG this year. The idea evolved from the summer camp 2002 in Topola, Serbia. Some people continued working on the issue and now we can declare that the Migration Campaign is…
Editorial
I had to change this editorial several times as the Iraqi situation has changed and deteriorated rapidly. Early this morning the pre-battle stage ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ has started and Baghdad military targets have been hit…all in the best of international interest. In the press conference, George Bush said that the coalition is made up of…
Speak up for Cyprus petition
The Mediterranean island of Cyprus has been split into a Greek Cypriot south and Turkish Cypriot north since Turkey’s invasion in 1974 following an abortive coup by Greek and Greek Cypriot supporters of union with Greece. Only Turkey recognizes the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state, keeping 40,000 troops on the island. Around 100,000 Turkish settlers moved…
Cyprus overview
Cyprus, an island kept captive of its history, learns to look ahead of past grievances towards a common future between Greek and Turkish Cypriots After 28 years of separation Greek and Turkish Cypriots are hopeful that a “solution” will be found now for the divided island. Significant, historic changes are prompted by the fact that…
Are there alternatives to a eurocentric world?
When Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were busy arguing their thoughts with their disciples little could they have imagined how their principles would have been imposed on the whole world over millennia dominated by European expansion. Greek philosophy was adopted by the Romans as their own, as they recognised the superiority of Greek thought over their…
Meet the Bosnian Green Youth
Bosnian Green Youth is a non-profit and a non-political oriented green organisation. We are in process of registering on national level. We have about 100 members and in future we hope that we would have more members. We will keep working on it. We have already participated in two FYEG‘s summer camps in Serbia. The…
Gender issues in Palestine
Since the early years of the previous century, the Palestinian people have been living under successive occupations resulting in fragmentation of the Palestinian society and a high level of suffering represented in the expulsion of hundreds of thousand of Palestinian refugees, lands confiscation and human rights violations. As all Arab-Palestinian people, Palestinian women were subjected…
Female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation is practiced in African countries such as, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Kenya and Chad. It is also practiced in minor forms in the Middle East and South Asia. Genital alteration in the female reproductive organs includes infibulations, clitoridectomy, clitoral circumcision and piercing. Degrees of mutilation exist ranging from excision of the hood…