Vienna activism
Tomorrow I will be leaving for Vienna where I will take part in a round table meeting about intolerance and discrimination against Muslims. The meeting, which takes place on Wednesday, is arranged by OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and I was invited as a delegate of UNITED for Intercultural Action and SOS [...]
Diversity in action
The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue is coming to an end, and in Copenhagen this will be marked with a closing ceremony (Danish) at Politikens Hus from 12-18h. This will be an occasion to see some of the national projects which have taken place in the course of the year, meet the ambassadors of the [...]
Grandparents for asylum recieve Children’s Rights Award
Every year on November 20th the Danish branch of Save the Children, Red Barnet, gives a Children’s Rights Award to someone who has done exceptional work toward fulfilling the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This year the award goes to Grandparents for asylum (Danish), a group of citizens who have been protesting [...]
Refugees United
My first thought when I heard about this organization was “Why couldn’t we have had something like this in the 1990’s?”. A fast way of finding lost family and friends who had ended up on the other side of the world, as it often happens during wars. We had the Red Cross who would try [...]
RESF: Activism at its finest
Yesterday we met with several local activists that were able to give us an idea of their work here. One of them was a lady from Réseau Education Sans Frontières (French), or RESF, as everything in France has an abbreviation. The network consists of ordinary citizens whose aim it is to stop deportations of families [...]
