News and updates
Completing the B Ring
01 Sep 2010 | Mircea Dan Opris
I finally managed to close the B Ring, after almost five months of travel and research. And what do you think the “B Ring” is? A network of cities and places I traveled across this summer. Surprisingly, when I started my research into child-trafficking networks, international adoptions and political lobbies, I thought I knew almost everything about these things. I would find out so many new things and so much information never revealed before about the fate of lost children, abandoned children and children born outside their parents’ native countries.Read more
Featured Fellow
Georgiana Ilie
Georgiana Ilie, from Romania, writes in-depth stories for numerous magazines, in the areas of culture, human rights, environment or inspirational people. Her previous work experience includes the UN Population Fund and the Center for Independent Journalism. Georgiana was awarded a Marshall Memorial Fellowship in 2008/2009, by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Read more
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21 Jul 2010
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More News and Updates
Ten Intros later...
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My last stop
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The hardest thing in my research
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Multimedia
Photos
09 Jun 2010 First Alumni meeting in Becici, photos by Jovana Trifunovic
13 May 2010 Introductory seminar in Berlin 2010 I Photos by Dirk Enters
23 Apr 2010 Institutions Remain Dumping Grounds for Forgotten People
08 Dec 2009 Berlin seminar 2009
Videos
23 Apr 2010 Institutions Remain Dumping Grounds for Forgotten People
15 Oct 2009 Mogos votes in the 2009 European elections with his fake ID | Video by Adrian Mogos
27 Jul 2009 Zagreb Pride | Video by Nela Lazarevic
Fellowship
2010 Balkan Fellowship Topic: Taboo
Taboos change – rapidly. Homosexuality was once a taboo in Western Europe, as was “living in sin”, [i.e. outside marriage], abortion, childlessness, physical disabilities, atheism and suicide.
No longer. But new taboos have arisen. The Europe of our ancestors was in some ways more accepting of depression, virginity, celibacy, getting old, illness and death than we are in our more youth-centred and health-orientated society. Read more
No longer. But new taboos have arisen. The Europe of our ancestors was in some ways more accepting of depression, virginity, celibacy, getting old, illness and death than we are in our more youth-centred and health-orientated society. Read more
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