This year, Belgrade’s cultural spring will be ushered it with a powerful show one day after International Women’s Day. One of Serbia’s more prolific and certainly most courageous artists invites the public to explore her articstic record so far – and to participate in a struggle for dignity.
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Die Geschichte von Isolde Cars‘ Flucht aus der DDR ist endlich auch auf Deutsch erschienen. Balkan Stories hatte über die Liebesgeschichte zwischen dem Schweden Hans Christian und der DDR-Bürgerin Isolde berichtet, die Isolde 1966 zu einer abenteuerlichen Flucht mit Hilfe ihres damaligen Freundes und heutigen Ehemanns gezwungen hatte.
Diese Geschichte hat nicht direkt mit dem Balkan zu tun. Aber mit Umständen, die denen ähneln, denen am Balkan zehntausende Menschen unterworfen sind. Es ist die Geschichte, wie Freunde von mir unter Lebensgefahr geflohen sind.
At the behest of Austria’s ambitious, right wing populist Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia have closed their borders to refugees. This has just made the flight to safety even more dangerous for refugees than it was … There Will Be More of This weiterlesen
A few days ago, police evicted and razed a Roma settlement in Tirana. According to activists the inhabitants were left with nothing but what they could carry.
It’s International Human Rights Day. A day not only to celebrate one of the most important documents of humanity. It’s also a day to remind us what we all can do to protect each other’s human rights and to remember those that have done so even when risking their lives.
This photograph is perhaps one of the most iconic images documenting resistance against the Holocaust.
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