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Anti-Hate Speech Council's 2nd Public Reaction

Anti-Hate Speech Council's 2nd Public Reaction

In June 2015, the Anti-Hate Speech Council released its 2nd public reaction to cases of hate speech in Slovenia, dealing with five specific cases.

 
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‘Populist communicative strategies: Fostering the “web of exclusion” in European societies’, by Mojca Pajnik and Iztok Šori

Anti-elitism, anti-leftism, anti-intellectualism, ethnocentrism, or the ideology of social enmity, are central to populism, as is the dichotomous division between “us” and “them”.
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The special issue of the Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination, and New Anthropology, no. 260, presents: “Racism: Cut up World”

The special issue of the Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination, and New Anthropology, no. 260, presents: “Racism: Cut up World”

In this issue of ČKZ, edited by Mojca Pajnik and Erik Valenčič, we disclose masks of racism, and draw attention to its vitality and ubiquity.
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New project "Social & Solidarity Economy as Development Approach for Sustainability in EYD 2015 and Beyond"

Overall objective of the project is to contribute to a coherent and comprehensive response to the universal challenges of poverty eradication and sustainable development.
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EU Investigative Journalism Awards presented at seven award ceremonies to honour 19 investigative stories published in 2014 in EU-Enlargement countries

EU Investigative Journalism Awards presented at seven award ceremonies to honour 19 investigative stories published in 2014 in EU-Enlargement countries

In many cases, more than one journalist contributed to the awarded story.
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“Nano-media and Connected Homeliness” by Mojca Pajnik

This article explores how digital communication platforms influence the everyday life of migrants in transnational milieus and how they shape the migrants’ sense of home.
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Humanitarian initiative: We collected toys and education materials for refugee children transiting through Albania

Humanitarian initiative: We collected toys and education materials for refugee children transiting through Albania

The Peace Institute staff collected toys and education materials for migrant and refugee children transiting through Albania. On 27 July 2015 six boxes of toys were handed over to the Albanian Ministry of Interior Affairs.
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Global history of domestic workers

Majda Hrženjak published the paper entiteled 'Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time' in the book about domestic and caregiving work through history.
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Critical reflections on voluntourism and the role of volunteerism in development

Critical reflections on voluntourism and the role of volunteerism in development

Voluntourism is a great way to educate oneself about the world, but the beneficial nature of voluntourism and positive impacts of volunteerism on development should not be taken for granted.
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Participation at the ILO conference on the future of work

Majda Hrženjak presented her paper ''Care as a public good or market commodity'' at the ILO conference in Geneva intended to investigate precarization of work and impelementation of Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention.
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Upcoming

• As a member of management committee Mojca Pajnik will participate at a meeting of COST Action ProsPol, Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance in Porto, Portugal, September 21-23. The next ProsPol meeting gathering researchers and activists from across Europe will be organized in Ljubljana, March 21-23, 2016. More on the action is available here http://prospol.eu/is1209/

 

• In October the Peace Insitute will organize an awarness rising campaign and public discussion about the gender based pension gap which in Slovenia amounts to as much as 29% despite one of the lowest pay gap in the European Union, good quality child care policies and consequent mass uninterrupted full-time employment of women. The events will be organized within the framework of the international project Promote Equal Pay to Diminish Pension Gap, Poverty and Social Exclusion funded by Progress Program.
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About the Peace Institute

The 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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