Over the past decade, the world has witnessed a deterioration in press freedom. But 2021 and 2022 acted as accelerators for press restrictions. This pandemic and it associated restrictions have allowed some of the world’s political and economic actors to speed up the decline of the journalist’s profession. This journalistic and therefore democratic backslide affects […]
Category: Human Rights
International women’s day 2023
For the international women’s day we ask the women around us to share unwanted comments they received and their experiences with sexism in their daily life. TW: The following stories contain descriptions of rape and harassment.
Celebrated for their wins but segregated in their normal lives
“History is written by the winners.” But is it really? Not in all sports, apparently. You may remember the last time your local sports team won a competition or when your favourite athlete broke a record. But do you know who was the First African American Female Olympic Gold Medallist? Or the first Female Woman […]
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and have the potential to contribute constructively to the development and well-being of their societies, and that any doctrine of racial superiority is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous and must be rejected, together with theories that attempt to determine the […]
Identity Crisis: A Story of Migration
“You can lose everything you have in life, your home, your job, even your loved ones, but the last thing a person can lose in life is their identity.” Naim Süleymanoğlu What makes you who you are? Is it your identity? Is it your name? What would be left if someone took it away from […]
lgbtq+and migration: an event by sympraxi
The migration crisis concerns all of us at different scales. Sympraxi, who works on gender issues, organized an event on the 25 January here in Thessaloniki to gather people affected by this topic and talk about it.A documentary was screened to illustrate this theme and also involve an unknown topic in the migration crisis: The […]
Another battle lost for young students in Hungary
I was in my third year, studying audiovisual communication and motivated by previously unknown arts, such as art, photography and cinema when I discovered a film that aroused all my curiosity for Hungary, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, it had it all, a strange mix between an extravagantly perfect photography and a great sense of humor. […]
The Mother of Israel forgotten in a parking lot
January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Every year we pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in order not to forget and to reaffirm, today and every day, our determination to oppose anti – Semitism and any other form of intolerance. However, sometimes […]
October 17, 1961, a colonial massacre
The night of October 17, 1961, was one of the last representations of hatred of French colonial hegemony. It represents this authoritarian trade of the French Government of those who were once called the French Muslims of Algeria.In 1961, Algeria was a French territory colonized in 1830 and divided into departments. Algeria’s war of independence […]
World AIDS Day: All big Things Start with Small Changes
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus transmitted by some bodily fluids such as blood, breast milk, and genital fluids. HIV attacks the cells that protect our body, making us more vulnerable to other infections. This is why some symptoms of HIV include fever, sore throat, or fatigue. If not treated correctly, HIV can lead […]