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The third issue of the Newsletter of the Peace Institute – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia! |
The aim of this article is to explore the complexity of the online sex trade and work by analysing sexuality-related commercial websites, with reference to three European states, France, Greece and Slovenia. The article compares websites in each specific sociocultural context, in order to provide insights into the various types of networks and services that emerge, and to explore how they operate, how they communicate and how sex is being merchandised. |
This is a book chapter arguing that despite the formal preference of EU migration policies to attract highly skilled migrants who could fill deficit professions in national labour markets, migrant education remains devalued, unrecognized and frequently denied. The majority of migrants – particularly “third country nationals” – are often perceived as an uneducated, low-skilled, replaceable workforce that is to create economic profits or be easily discarded. |
The White Paper contains an overview of all relevant fields of the EU law important for free movement of rainbow families – recognition of relationship and divorce, immigration, adoption, reproductive rights, children’s rights and parental responsibilities, employment benefits and pensions, property rights, recognition of transgender and intersex status. It also contains recommendations for the institutions of the European Union. |
A brand new publication co-written by Neža Kogovšek Šalamon and 4 other authors reveals that at least 70 national laws in Slovenia are discriminatory on the grounds of sexual orientation. The publication (in Slovenian) covers family, civil, criminal, administrative, labour, social, corporate and other legal areas. |
The Peace Institute strongly condemns the growing trend of repressive prosecution of journalists in Slovenia. The Peace Institute recently released a public statement protesting against criminal prosecution and investigation of journalists in Slovenia which explored the topics of great public interest. It emphasized that such measures are in stark contrast to the right of expression and freedom of the media. |
The regional scheme of EU awards for investigative journalism in Western Balkans and Turkey has been launched in March 2015 aiming at celebrating and promoting outstanding achievements of investigative journalists and improving the visibility of quality investigative journalism in the region. |
“Anti-Hate Speech Council” began its work at the end of January 2015. Though it was established within the Peace Institute-led project “Responding to Hate Speech in Slovenia”, the Council operates as an independent body of engaged individuals, who share the goal of opening up public debate about hate speech in Slovenia. |
The project "Fathers and Employers in Action" is addressing the situation of working fathers and the issue of work–life balance with an aim to raise awareness about gender equality, to foster active fatherhood in family life and to foster cooperation between employers, trade unions and working fathers in developing and testing new strategies of work–life balance. |
The Peace Institute started supporting and cooperating with a group of women in Kigali, Rwanda in 2007 and soon Nyamirambo Women’s Center was established. Since then, 6 projects have been implemented, and the Center is becoming more and more successful and popular among tourists, volunteers and others. The Center's mission is to contribute to capacity-building of the most disadvantaged women, through coaching, learning, and income-generating activities. |
The Peace Institute prepared the public statement just before the International Women’s Day. In Slovenia this year many events happened lately and thus the main purpose was to put focus to the fact that “what is really at stake is gender equality in political, social and economic terms”. |
As a conclusion of project RAGE, Hate Speech and Populist Othering in Europe through the Racism, Age, Gender Looking Glass the Peace Institute, together with project coordinator The College of Social Science of University of Leicester and six European universities organized an International Conference in Brussels, March 2, 2015. |
Articles written by researchers from the Digital citizenship project recently appeared in the jubilee issue of the journal Teorija in praksa, marking the 50th anniversary of the journal. Articles present results from the thematic research of the project “Strong” Politics on the Internet and the Young. |
The site joins contemporary design with a number of functionalities, such as comprehensive content management system, full bilinguality support, wide spectrum of content blocks, integrated tools for e-newsletters and subscriptions, search engines adapted to the type of content, and others. While the site is even more user-friendly than before and much more emphasis is on the visual elements (photos, banners, colors), our knowledge and our mission remain our strongest tools. The Peace Institute Team |
Do you think The Peace Institute’s work is important for societies we live in? If yes, you might be interested in our Membership Program. It was established with an aim to strengthen the Institute’s mission. The program is aimed at individuals and organizations, who believe in the Peace Institute mission, support its public work and consider the institute’s activities as important for the community in Slovenia as well as on the international level. |
Coming up:ProsPol conference: Roman Kuhar and Mojca Pajnik will present a paper on male sex work in Slovenia at the conference Troubling Prostitution: Exploring Intersections of Sex, Intimacy and Labour, 17-18 April in Vienna. The conference is organized as part of a COST Action ProsPol, Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance in which M. Pajnik participates as a member of management committee. More on the action is available here. |
About the Peace InstituteThe Peace Institute is a private independent non-profit research institution founded in 1991 by individuals who believed in peaceful conflict resolution, equality and respect for human rights standards. The institute develops interdisciplinary research, educational and advocacy activities aimed at creating and preserving open society capable of critical thought and based on the principles of equality, responsibility, solidarity, human rights and the rule of law. The Institute operates in areas of social sciences, humanities and law, in five thematic fields: human rights and minorities, politics, media, gender and cultural policies. It acts as an ally of vulnerable groups and acts against discrimination in partnership with them. |
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