Attorneys Andrea Saccucci and Anton Giulio Lana (Italy) and the Peace Institute (Slovenia) received PILnet’s 2012 European Pro Bono Award for exemplary partnership in the public interest
The award was bestowed at the closing ceremony of the 6th European Pro Bono Forum hosted by PILnet.
New book "Paradoxes of integration" (2012.12.10)
The book Paradoxes of Integration: Female Migrants in Europe, eds. Floya Anthias, Maria Kontos, Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller (Springer, 2013), has just been released and it includes a chapter by Mojca Pajnik and Veronika Bajt "Civic Participation of Migrant Women: Employing Strategies of Active Citizenship". The book is the result of project FEMIPOL: Integration of Female Immigrants in Labour Market and Society (EC, 6. FP) that included Peace Institute as partner organization.
A workshop on culture and development (AWARD) (2012.11.26)
As a project partner in the AWARD project, the Peace Institute was invited to take part in the first edition of the 'European Campus of local and regional authorities for Culture' which took place in Paris from the 22nd to the 24th of November 2012. The event was organized by the Association of European Cities and Regions for Culture 'Les Rencontres'.
Invitation to the conference (2012.11.22)
Peace Institute organizes a two-day trans-regional conference "Comparing Media Reforms". The meeting, which is attended by 20 experts from around the world, will be held from 29th to 30th November 2012 in the rector's hall at the University of Ljubljana, Kongresni trg 12.
Peace Institute wins PASOS Think-Tank Achievement Award 2012 (2012.11.12)
The Peace Institute was awarded the PASOS Think-Tank Achievement Award 2012. “The project of the Peace Institute is for me a shining example of the way how any civil society organization should function within a society and for the benefit of the society,” said award juror Gabriela Svárovská, a member of the board of the European Partnership for Democracy and former director of the Human Rights & Transition Policy Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.
Invitation to Partnership Fair (2012.10.02)
In the frame of Slovenian Development Days, organized by SLOGA - Platform for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Peace institute is organizing Partnership Fair i.e. consultations with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on migration and development - two fields that are interrelated and largely affect by each other.
The Erased: Information and documents (2012.07.17)
At the 20th anniversary of the 'erasure' from the register of permanent residence, an act of authorities who in 1992 unlawfully deprived 25.000 people of their legal status, the Peace Institute set up a new website with key information about the erasure, internal instructions used to order the erasure, and its consequences. A special part of the website is dedicated to legal assistance for the erased people as it contains forms and guidelines for regularization of their legal status in Slovenia. This website with content in three languages (Slovenian, English and BHS) was set up to serve the erased people as well as domestic and international public.