#BorderTales 🇩🇪
The European Green Belt is a destination for tourists and nature lovers. In the region of #Thuringia, #Germany, it has also been a border: the old Iron Curtain, which separated Germany in two. 👇
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🇸🇪 🇫🇮 🇦🇫 "Sweden is stopping all deportations to Afghanistan, citing the deteriorating security situation in the country. It comes after Finland last week became the first European country to announce a freeze on forced returns"
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#QuotesFromTheBorders
André Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.
#NewsFromTheBorders
On July 9th 2021 in Lampedusa an important event has been held in “hybrid” mode, starting from an initiative of the University of Teramo and with the collaboration with 30 African universities.
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#QuotesFromTheBorders#JaneElliott became known as a schoolteacher for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
#racism#education#power#privilege
An estimated 250 million jobs have been lost around the world, and the number of people affected by acute food insecurity was estimated to have doubled to 272 million by the end of last year.
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An online round table regarding the problems of migrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina was organized by Iscomet and the Agencija lokalne demokratije Mostar.
If you missed the live event, you can catch up watching the event registration
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#Quotesfromtheborders
Henry Miller was an American writer and artist. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new type of semi-autobiographical novel.
#literature#change#vision
#DataFromTheBorders
The number of illegal border crossings at Europe’s external borders dropped by 40% in the first two months of 2021 compared to a year ago.Only the Central Mediterranean route recorded a 26 % increase in irregular entries.
#Frontex#borders#fortressEurope
Sunday 20th June is #WorldRefugeeDay.
From concerts to cooking workshops, slam poetry to synchronized swimming... Check out what are the events near you and get involved!
#Newsfromtheborders 🇪🇺
“Palm scanners record the unique pattern of the vein in a person’s hand to be used as a biometric identifier, and the makers of the live camera reconstruction technology promise to virtually erase foliage, exposing people hiding near border areas."
#BorderTale 🇸🇮🇭🇷
“At the beginning of the refugee crisis, in 2015, I used to meet people and families every day crossing the river, along their journey.”
Read what Boris has to tell about #Kolpa river, at the border between #Slovenia and #Croatia 👇
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#DataFromTheBorders
Italy allocated EUR 310 million to third countries between the end of 2016 and November 2020: Libya is the country that received the largest amount.
#Libya#TheBigWall