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Aug 11
7 min

A European without a Country - Minorities in the Baltics

By Aleksejs Ivashuk I am European, but not a citizen of the country of where I was born or of any other. I was born in Riga, Latvia, USSR...

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Apr 22
3 min

Paradoxical Safety Nets: Looking at the lives of Rohingya Women

By Gurmeet Kaur Back in 2015, millions of Rohingyas fled Myanmar for the fear of persecution due to their religious identity. Nearly all ...

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Apr 2, 2019
4 min

Through Hell for Heaven: Religious Persecution in China

By Zahra El Bouhali In August 2018, a UN human rights panel cited credible reports stating that more than 1 million people are being deta...

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Sep 22, 2018
4 min

Refugee paralegals

By Christian Musenga Refugees in Kenya face multiple challenges. In addition to the long process of recognition or rejection of refugee s...

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Jul 26, 2017
1 min

Borders

By Jelle Wassenaar A poem about the ability for European people with passports to cross a border with no trouble whatsoever, while people...

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Jul 25, 2017
2 min

a Number, a Name

By Jelle Wassenaar A poem from two different perspectives about refugees who are lost in the numbers, currently living in a camp where th...

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Jul 21, 2017
1 min

Complicated

By Jelle Wassenaar A poem about the complicated world of helping people (as a volunteer) and how one can struggle with emotions as you en...

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Jul 20, 2017
1 min

Darkness

By Jelle Wassenaar A poem I wrote while in Greece about the trip people make from Turkey via Farmakonisi – a military island – to Leros. ...

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Jul 19, 2017
2 min

Life in the jungle

By Jelle Wassenaar A poem about life in Calais and how it must’ve felt like before it got dismantled earlier this year and people were tr...

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Feb 13, 2017
5 min

My story as a volunteer in a Greek camp in Ritsona

By Jelle Wassenaar From the very first moment you – a stranger – enter the community of Ritsona, you feel accepted. People see an unknown...

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