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Why Legal Aid Matters for an Effective Defence: New FULL-PROOF Animation
Video animation presents the importance of legal aid in a clear and accessible way. It explains how legal aid contributes to effective access to a lawyer and to the...
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New book on citizenship and solidarity in European cities
Drawing on ethnographic research in eleven European cities, the book explores how local initiatives and activist organising create new forms of solidarity and enact citizenship through everyday practices.
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Who Cares for Older People? The Transnationalization of Care Work in Central and Eastern Europe
The new thematic issue of Social Inclusion brings together research on migrant care workers, changing care systems, and the inequalities that emerge at the intersection of mobility, labour, and...
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Summary of the panel »Disputes over media regulation«
The Peace Institute in Ljubljana, the International Media Center IMC and the Slovenian Association of Journalists compiled a summary of the panel discussion "Disputes over media regulation and claims of political control of the media - cases in Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia, differences and...
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The Scars of the Erasure – Peace Institute Book Launch Event
The Peace Institute – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies cordially invites you to “The Scars of the Erasure – Peace Institute Book Launch Event, which will take place on Thursday, 24 February 2011 at 2 p.m. at Cankarjev dom, Lili Novy Literary...
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Call for papers II.
International conference: Migrant Labour: Contested Integration, Prospects for Citizenship
15–16 September 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Submission guidelines: Submissions for presentations should include paper abstracts of max. 250 words, half a page CV, affiliation and contact details.
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Call for papers
The Peace Institute (Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana) and GLBT non-governmental organization Legebitra (Ljubljana) in cooperation with the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest) will hold an international seminar Homophobia in schools in Eastern Europe. The seminar...Rwandan ambassador to Netherlands, Her Excellency Immaculee Uwanyiligira, visiting Peace Institute in Slovenia
Rwandan ambassador to Netherlands, Her Exc. Immaculee Uwanyiligira, is visiting Slovenia for the first time. Among others she visited also the Peace Institute...
Book ‘Do Good Fences Make Friendly Neighbor? Inclusion and Exclusion in and on the Borders of Europe’
Texts by authors from different parts of the world, having a common topic of border regimes, migrations, asylum, trafficking, friendly neighborhood policies, cultural differences and Islam, excell in connection between research and activism, and represent a result of cooperation between World Learning/SIT Abroad and...
An English Edition of the Postfordism Book Presented in Berlin
Public discussion »New School of Capitalism« took place in Berlin on December 15, 2010. It was organized by Workers-Punks Art School and B_books as well as Gal Kirn, the editor of the book Postfordism and Its Discontents. The event was third in series of...Comments on the RTV Slovenia Act by international experts
Approaching the referendum on the RTV Slovenia Act (scheduled for 12 December 2010), the Peace Institute requested from the renown international experts and organisations to evaluate the law. The activity is aimed at providing...Public statement
The European Court of Human Rights today issued a judgment against the RS in favor of a group of applicants who filed an application complaining about their unlawful “erasure” from the registry of permanent residence in 1992 soon after the Slovenia’s...