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'The Boat', an interactive graphic novel about escape after the Vietnam War. Based on the story by Nam Le, adapted by Matt Huynh.​

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Online publishing tools for writing classes, student projects, portfolios, school magazines and publications.

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Simple but profound poem by Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç called "Twice a Stranger" - "İki Kere Yabancı", about the tragedy and truth behind the League of Nations-commissioned population exchange in 1923 between #‎Greece and #‎Turkey, that sought to leave more or less ethnically homogenous states on both sides of the Aegean by forcibly transferring hundreds of thousands in both directions.

Her family members were removed from their homes in Crete in modern-day Greece and taken to Turkey.

"Geç kaldık anıları kaybetmeye
o ilk malzeme yitti gitti
ilk mübadiller götürdüler anılarını
oysa onlar hemen kaydedilmeliydi
üzerinden seksen yıl geçtikten sonra
ani savaşları
her türlü manipulasyona açık
Mübadeleyle ilgili her metnin özü aynı:
“Yerinde doğup yabanda kocamak”
iki yerde de yabancı olmak."

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"It's too late for us to be preserving our recollections;
The essence of them, the first essence, has vanished already.
Those first migrants took away their memories;
The memories that ought to have been
recorded without delay.
Eighty years have passed,
The memories are warring with one another,
ripe for distortion.
But the core of every migrant's statement
remains the same.
Birth in one place,
growing old in another place.
And feeling a stranger in two places."

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Twice A Stranger / www.twiceastranger.net. 892 likes. A multi-media exhibition about forced migration and population exchange in the 20th century. hosted in ATHENS - NICOSIA - ISTANBUL - STOCKHOLM -...

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Film trailer:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/twiceastranger

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The number of people forced to flee their homes has now exceeded 50 million for the first time since the second world war.

The issue is firmly in the international spotlight at the moment. In Europe, thousands of refugees from countries including Eritrea and Somalia put themselves in danger every day by attempting to cross the Mediterranean in over-crowded boats, while in Asia the plight of the Rohingya people, for example, has been widely covered.

Refugee Week, which starts on Monday 15 June, celebrates the contribution refugees make to the UK. This week's how to teach includes lots of ideas and resources to help you explain the current refugee crisis to your class.

Primary ideas

Discover what primary children know and think about refugees with this resource from the British Red Cross. It focuses on the experiences of evacuees in the second world war, and can be used to explore the hopes and fears of refugees today.

As a follow-up activity, ask students to draw two pictures: one under the title "Leaving danger" and another entitled "Finding refuge". Discuss how the images compare.

Secondary ideas

Introduce secondary students to the topic with this British Red Cross lesson plan and presentation about seeking safety. Students are encouraged to think about what it would be like to feel unsafe in their homes and the belongings they would take if they were forced to flee. Working in groups, ask your class to list some of the reasons why people migrate. Can they identify some similarities and differences between being a refugee now and in the past? Use these ideas to create an extended piece of creative writing or a drama improvisation.

Investigate the difficulties faced by people who have been displaced in their own countries with the help of this resource by Oxfam. It focuses on South Sudan where fighting has forced around 1.5 million people to flee their homes with a further 474,000 becoming refugees in neighbouring countries.

Use this role-play activity to help key stage 3 students identify which people are most vulnerable in a complex emergency. Based on what they've learned, how do they feel the international community should respond when poverty and conflict combine to create a crisis? If you have some tech to hand, you could record these thoughts in a podcast or video.

Another fantastic resource is the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) photo library. It covers the past 60 years and contains more than 250,000 images, making it the world's largest collection of refugee-related photos. It includes recent photographs from the Bay of Bengal and Mediterranean Sea. What would students like to ask some of the people featured in the images? Working in pairs, get your class to act out one of these conversations then write a newspaper report to accompany the picture. Alternatively, choose some of the statistics included in the captions to create an infographic, or use them to inspire a piece of artwork.

Ideas for all ages

As the focus of Refugee Week is on celebrating the contribution that refugees make to the UK, Counterpoint Arts has handily created 14 learning activities for key stages 1 to 4. They explore issues of refugee-hood, displacement, home and identity. Ideas include a music lesson in which students create a soundscape about a journey and an art lesson that focuses on personal identity. The aim is to raise awareness of refugee architects, musicians, writers and artists who have sought sanctuary in the UK. Did pupils know, for example, that singer Rita Ora was a refugee? Or that the family of artist Lucien Freud moved to London in the 1930s to avoid persecution by the Nazis? As a homework task, challenge students to research a well-known refugee of their choice.

If you have students in your class who are refugees or asylum seekers, you might be interested in this guide to becoming a "School of Sanctuary". It contains information about refugees and asylum seekers, including what it's like to be an asylum-seeking child in school, and advice on how to foster a culture of inclusion. Choose a "language of the month" and give students the opportunity to share greetings and phrases from their home language, or set up conversation clubs for children who are learning English as an additional language.

Education charity Into Film has found that running a film club can be a fantastic way of aiding integration while providing a fun, safe and inclusive learning environment. It's Identity and Belonging resource (more suited for secondary) was created earlier this year to show how film can be used to support new arrivals to the UK. A second resource about Refugee Week, suitable for all ages, uses six films to explore the emotional turmoil of being forced to flee your country.

Having learned about refugees, students should be in a position to enter the Refugee Week 2015 competition for schools. From whole-school poetry collections to collages and newspapers, entries can be in any medium and should celebrate the contribution that refugees and migrants have made to the UK. One idea is to build and decorate a tent inspired by the work that Syrian children have been doing in UNHCR refugee camps. Entries are limited to one per school and must be received by Tuesday 30 June. Use the hashtag #RefugeesContribute to find out more.

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We are currently witnessing the worst refugee crisis in decades, but it is estimated that the numbers now fleeing Syria may be dwarfed by those forced to flee their homes because of environmental catastrophes in the coming century. In an investigation at , Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School explains: "The numbers of people involved in the current crisis are one or two orders of magnitude [lower] than what would eventually be faced in a climate crisis."

Particularly worrying for those at risk is the fact that there is still no international agreement on what will happen to environmental refugees. The term "environmental refugee" is actually currently a legal misnomer because the 1951 Refugee Convention allows "zero status under international law" to those fleeing environmental catastrophe, according to Jose Riera, a special advisor at the UN.

Ultimately, the answer to the question of how big the environmental refugee crisis could be over the coming years is impossible to accurately predict. If we assume that everyone currently living on land that is expected to be lost as sea levels rise will migrate, the number stands at 200 million people. Of course, not all of these people will leave their home country, but some may have no choice. It is already very likely that at the very least a number of Pacific islands home to hundreds of thousands of people will disappear forever.

In fact, according to some researchers, we may be asking entirely the wrong question. Perhaps the question is not "when will the environmental refugee crisis happen?" but "has the environmental refugee crisis already begun?" If we attempt the decidedly unscientific task of unwinding the series of events that led to the current crisis in the Middle East, it is clear that climate change was likely a major factor.

It is already very likely that at the very least a number of Pacific islands home to hundreds of thousands of people will disappear forever.

That's according to a paper published this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which points to the fact that between 2006 and 2010 Syria experienced the worst multi-year drought on record causing crop failures, mass migration to urban centres, and steep rises in food prices.

Of course the situation in Syria is far more complex than this, but it is more than possible that these events that the researchers attribute directly to climate change helped a bubbling pot to boil over. Syria certainly wouldn't be the first country that might have been pushed to a crisis point by climate change. Eight years ago, the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan was also blamed on drought caused by climate change, according to a UN report based on an 18-month study of Sudan by the UN Environmental Programme.

According to Colin Kelley the researcher behind the PNAS paper, Yemen is another Arab Spring country that is strongly reliant on rainfall and groundwater that has seen a steady decline in rainfall that cannot be explained by natural variability. If climate change continues unabated, Yemen could be next.

All of this is before we even begin to consider the potential effects of extreme heat in promoting social unrest in urban centres, a trend that has been widely observed. Now consider that already " Baghdad has eight extreme heat days a year. With 2C global warming they say there will be 90 extreme heat days. With 4C warming, over 115. It is a similar story for Amman, Damascus, Beirut, and Riyadh."

It is of course true that correlation does not imply causation, but these correlations are correlations that we ignore at our peril.

Related Post: Why Do Most American Conservatives Still Refuse To Believe In Climate Change?

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Will The Next Refugee Crisis Be An Environmental Refugee Crisis?

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FOR too long Europe has closed its eyes to Syria's foul and bloody civil war, and tried to keep the suffering multitudes out. Suddenly the continent's gates have been pushed open by two political forces. One is moral conscience, belatedly wakened by the image of a drowned Syrian child on a Turkish beach. The other is the political courage of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who told her people to set aside their fear of immigrants and show compassion to the needy.

Tens of thousands of asylum-seekers flowed towards Germany by rail, bus and on foot, chanting "Germany! Germany!", to be welcomed by cheering crowds. Germany is showing that old Europe, too, can take in the tired, the poor and the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It says it can absorb not thousands, but hundreds of thousands of refugees.
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Such numbers will inevitably raise many worries: that cultures will be swamped by aliens, economies will be overburdened, social benefits will have to be curbed and even that terrorists will creep in. Anti-immigrant parties have been on the rise across Europe. In America, too, some politicians want to build walls to keep foreigners out.

Yet the impulse to see migrants as chiefly a burden is profoundly mistaken. The answer to these familiar fears is not to put up more barriers, but to manage the pressures and the risks to ensure that migration improves the lives of both immigrants and their hosts. The starting point is a sense of perspective.

Willkommen, bienvenue, salaam alaikum

As a wealthy and peaceful continent surrounded by large areas of poverty and chaos, Europe is a strong draw for many seeking a better life. The 4m Syrian refugees compare with 1.2m from the Balkan wars of the 1990s and 15m after the second world war. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, counts 59.5m refugees and other forcibly displaced people worldwide. Europe cannot take everybody in. But in truth, most people prefer a decent life at home. In addition, the history of migration is a catalogue of overblown fears (see article), with countless examples of exiles forming vibrant communities that enrich their host countries: the Jews, the Armenians, the Vietnamese boat-people and the Ugandan Asians, to name but a few. Germany's Willkommenskultur is right morally, economically and politically. It sets an example to the world.

Policymakers need to think about three groups: refugees, economic migrants and voters at home. Start with refugees. Syrians make up the largest contingent of asylum-seekers in Europe. Oppressed by the barrel-bombs of Bashar al-Assad's regime and the jihadists of Islamic State, Syrians meet any standard for recognition as refugees with a "well-founded fear of persecution", under the terms of the UN convention on refugees of 1951. Helping Syrians is a clear moral duty.

That responsibility falls not on Europe alone, but the world as a whole. It needs a co-ordinated policy to manage the Syrian crisis along the entire chain of displacement. There must be a concerted effort to contain the war, starting with the creation of protected havens. UN agencies, buckling under the strain, must be properly funded. Syria's neighbours, which have taken in the largest share of refugees, need help to provide education and jobs, not just camps in the desert. America, Western countries and especially the rich monarchies of the Gulf should resettle many more Syrians-just as 1.8m Indochinese refugees were resettled in the 1970s and 1980s. Transit countries need help to manage human flows and absorb at least some people. Refugees should be able to apply for asylum in Europe without risking their lives at the hands of people-smugglers; that may mean establishing processing centres in transit countries. In Europe refugees should be shared across the EU fairly ; other migrants denied entry should be speedily repatriated. The countries of the western Balkans (Albania, Kosovo, Serbia) should be deemed safe.

Refugees are intertwined with economic migrants. They get on the same boats and resentment of migrants erodes support for refugees. How, then, to deal with those who want a better life rather than a safer one?

Whereas states may not be able to pick who comes in search of protection, they want to choose who comes to work. A willingness to accept legal migrants gives countries more scope to turn back the illegal sort; issuing more work visas gives neighbouring countries a stake in the system and hence a reason to co-operate in curbing illegal flows. But the fundamental point is that Europe needs economic migrants. It has too few workers to pay for its citizens' retirement and to provide the services they want. Migrants are net contributors to the public purse. They inject economic dynamism. They are, almost by definition, self-starters.

Voters may not be so sanguine, though. Newcomers need housing, schools and health care. There is evidence that they depress wages for the low-paid-though barely. Where labour markets are rigid, migrants can become an underclass. Yet this strengthens the case not for fortress Europe, but for good public policy-and especially for the sort of open, flexible labour markets that Europe needs whether or not it accepts migrants.

Voters fear that immigrants will not fit in. An old idea of Christendom still lurks within modern European identity. Since the 9/11 attacks on America, and terrorist murders in Europe, relations with Muslim minorities have become strained. Yet compassion towards needy Muslims is part of the antidote to a hateful jihadist ideology. By contrast, millions of brutalised Syrians left to fester on Europe's fringe would be a source of extremism that will not respect any border.

Love ye the stranger

There are surely limits to how many migrants any society will accept. But the numbers Europe proposes to receive do not begin to breach them. The boundaries of social tolerance are fuzzy. They change with time and circumstance and leadership. Willkommenskultur shows that the people of Europe are more welcoming than their nervous politicians assume. The politics of fear can be trumped by the politics of dignity. Mrs Merkel understood this; so should the rest of the world.

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FOR too long Europe has closed its eyes to Syria's foul and bloody civil war, and tried to keep the suffering multitudes out. Suddenly the continent's gates have been pushed open by two political forces. One is moral conscience, belatedly wakened by the image of a drowned Syrian child on a Turkish beach.

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I'm in Berlin reporting for Newsnight at the moment on the crisis engulfing Europe. Here are a few of the wider issues I think it's worth reflecting on.
People Are Seeking a Better Life
Arguments about names - "migrant" versus "refugee" for example - ignore the complexity of many peoples' motivation.

Speaking to Faris, a Syrian from Aleppo, at the Berlin refugee reception centre, it's clear that he is escaping a vicious war.

But when I asked him what he would think about a European Union quota system that might require him to move on to Poland or the UK he insisted, "I want to stay in Germany," adding this was because of the quality of education available. As soon as he's settled, Faris intends to send for his wife and children.

The current argument within the EU about the so-called "Dublin 2" rules takes us back though to the distinction between asylum seekers (or refugees in this context) and others.

The rules dictate that people fleeing persecution or war seek asylum in the first EU country they get to. In the current crisis, this would most often be Greece or Italy, but it's clear that many have no intention of settling there.

By the simple definitions of the Dublin 2 rules, there's not much debate - those who end up in places like the Berlin refugee centre are migrants since they have crossed through a number of other EU countries to get there. The search for a better life starts with physical security - but for a great many it is also tied to questions of opportunity.
Guilt Only Carries You So Far
Another recurrent argument concerns the degree to which European countries are responsible for creating this crisis. There is clearly a case to answer in the matter of Nato's overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi's Libyan government, which removed the obstacles to people crossing the Mediterranean from there.

That said, this culpability is largely irrelevant to the other (and bigger) migration route through Turkey and the Balkans to Germany, Austria and Sweden.

Some chose to blame the West for not intervening (producing the largest single flow of refugees, that from Syria), others for intervening (in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya).

In the case of some of the other large contingents in the current crisis (Eritreans, or Nigerians for example) the issue of Western intervention or non-intervention is largely irrelevant.

Politicians and experts talk about the "push" and "pull" factors in these movements of people. War or abject misery pushes, opportunity in western countries provides the pull. There are other pulls too. Mohammed, a Syrian I met in a Turkish camp several months ago told he would try to get to Britain - because he had a brother already in Scotland.
The Slick and the Sticky
Look at the hotspots in this crisis and you see some European countries, like Hungary, getting into serious difficulties, while others seem hardly to be involved at all.

Croatia, and Romania for example might have figured more prominently in this, but for a variety of reasons do not.

Geography, visa regimes, and the fact that they are not members of the Schengen group (with its absence of onward border controls) make Croatia or Romania less desirable to transit or seek asylum in, even though they are EU members.

In fact asylum applications from Syrians only amount to a few thousand in those two countries combined. Opposite factors apply with Hungary, particularly in its desirability as an entry point to Schengen.

In some countries (including Greece and Serbia) the governments appear to have decided that so long as they remain slick, and refugees simply slide through them, these flows need not be a huge problem. In fact they can present a modest earning opportunity for the local economy. Providers of food, lodging, and transport are all gaining - as well as the people smugglers.

Many countries would be reluctant to impose tougher controls because that might mean tens or even hundreds of thousands of displaced people quickly accumulating on their territory.

They don't want to be 'sticky' in that sense. Knowing that many are heading for Germany, the Hungarian prime minister this week stated that he reserves the right to keep migrants out of his country rather than have to stop there or use it as an unrestricted thoroughfare.

This has earned him much opprobrium abroad, but it's fair to say this thinking reflects the attitudes of many southern and east European governments that have been resisting EU quotas to take more people.
The Path of Least Resistance
Looking at the routes people are flowing along in this crisis, evidently the largest numbers will follow the path of least resistance. One German columnist remarked to me, "We do not have the luxury of the English Channel." Geography, risk, and official reluctance to help, have all limited Britain's appeal, keeping the numbers down - to Downing Street's liking. All of Germany's neighbours are in Schengen.

Jumping on a goods train through the Channel tunnel is also a young man's game - it's not a route for grandmas or babies. By contrast, my producer spotted better off Syrians a couple of weeks ago in Hungary hiring taxis to take families all the way to the German destinations of their choice.

To suggest that visa regimes and geography (including that modified by man-made obstacles) can do nothing to alter the situation defies simple observation of where people are or are not going.
Hard Choices Lie Ahead
A new EU quota to distribute 120,000 refugees (onwards from Italy and Greece) will provide a short term palliative. Sampling the debate in Germany though there is little doubt as to the gravity of this crisis.

People talk about 800,000 arriving this year and the same next. Chancellor Angela Merkel has already suggested that it is one of the greatest challenges to Europe since 1945.

Indeed it's possible that this situation is already developing into a more profound test for Europe and its core principles than either Greece's tribulations with the Euro or Britain's planned renegotiation.

The Schengen agreement is coming under increasing pressure, as is the Dublin 2 regulation on asylum seekers. Hungary's decision to break ranks may be an isolated breakout, or it could point the way to increasing division between old and new members of the EU.

As debates on the best way to deal with this continue, all manner of principles from free movement to majority voting will be tested as popular pressure pushes leaders towards a fortress Europe.

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Δωρεάν εκπαιδευτικό υλικό για το ρατσισμό και τη διαφορετικότητα. Πλούσιο οπτικοακουστικό υλικό για δράσεις και προγράμματα ευαισθητοποίησης απο το Κοινωνικό Καφενείο.

Πηγή: koinonikokafeneio.gr

Οικουμενική Διακήρυξη για τα Ανθρώπινα Δικαιώματα από τη Γενική Συνέλευση του ΟΗΕ, 10 Δεκεμβρίου 1948 (, , ιστοσελίδα ).

Σύμβαση της UNICEF για τα δικαιώματα του παιδιού.
Συνήγορος του Παιδιού.
Ύπατη Αρμοστεία ΟΗΕ για τους Πρόσφυγες - UNHCR GREECE.
Κίνηση Απελάστε το Ρατσισμό.
Διεθνής Αμνηστία.
Κέντρο Προάσπισης Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων.
ΑΡΣΙΣ. Κοινωνική Οργάνωση Υποστήριξης Νέων.
PRAKSIS.
Κέντρο Παιδαγωγικής και Καλλιτεχνικής Επιμόρφωσης "Σχεδία".
Δίκτυο για τα δικαιώματα του Παιδιού.
iRED (Institute Rights Equality & Diversity).
Ελληνικό Συμβούλιο για τους Πρόσφυγες.

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"Παίρνουμε Θέση" ενάντια στον ρατσισμό και την ξενοφοβία! Μία ταινία μικρού μήκους, σε σκηνοθεσία Θοδωρή Παπαδουλάκη, που προσκαλεί να σπάσουμε τη σιωπή και να εναντιωθούμε στον ρατσισμό και την ξενοφοβία που έχουν γιγαντωθεί στη χώρα μας.

"Επειδή δεν συμβαίνει εδώ δεν σημαίνει ότι δεν συμβαίνει" . Ένα βίντεο που μέσα σε 93 δευτερόλεπτα αποτυπώνει τη δυστυχία των παιδιών που βιώνουν τον πόλεμο. Σώστε τα παιδιά της Συρίας...

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"Και 1 θύμα ρατσιστικής βίας είναι πολύ". Ο Αφγανός πρόσφυγας Α.Η. δεν τολμάει πια να βγει από το σπίτι του. Πριν από λίγο καιρό, επτά άτομα είχαν επιτεθεί στον ίδιο και το γιο του την ώρα που πήγαιναν να αγοράσουν ένα κομμάτι ψωμί. Ύπατη Αρμοστεία του ΟΗΕ για τους Πρόσφυγες - UNHCR GREECE.

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"Κιαλό Αμαντού, ανήλικος μετανάστης στην Αθήνα". Ένα μικρού μήκους φιλμ που προσπαθεί να περιγράψει την ζωή ενός ξένου στην Eλλάδα, τον κοινωνικό κανιβαλισμό και την φασιστική απειλή. Η ιστορία του Κιαλό είναι κομμάτι του project "Portraits of Greece in Crisis".

"Ο λαθρεπιβάτης". Αντιρατσιστική ταινία μικρού μήκους του 1994, που καταγγέλλει όχι μόνο τον καθημερινό ρατσισμό πολλών ανθρώπων, αλλά και την αδιαφορία των περισσοτέρων).

"Χρωμοφοβία". Αλληγορική ταινία μικρού μήκους (Raoul Servais, 1966) για τον φασισμό και τον ρατσισμό.

"Δύο φορές ξένος". Ταινία ντοκιμαντέρ βασισμένη στο ομότιτλο βιβλίο του δημοσιογράφου Μπρους Κλαρκ και την ομώνυμη τηλεοπτική σειρά "Δυο φορές ξένος" παραγωγής ΠΡΙΣΜΑ+ της ΕΡΤ, που εξετάζει τις ανταλλαγές πληθυσμών στο χώρο των Βαλκανίων από τις αρχές του 20ου αιώνα, με αποκορύφωμα τις υποχρεωτικές ανταλλαγές των ετών 1923-1924.

"Βρωμοέλληνες". Ο Στέλιος Κούλογλου παρουσιάζει ένα ντοκιμαντέρ για τους Έλληνες όταν αυτοί ήταν οι "ξένοι" (μετανάστες στις Η.Π.Α. στις αρχές του αιώνα) στους κατοίκους ενός χωριού στην Πιερία για να τους φέρει αντιμέτωπους με την ρατσιστική τους συμπεριφορά.

"Θάνατος στους ξένους". Ο Στέλιος Κούλογλου παρουσιάζει την περιπέτεια ενός Έλληνα εστιάτορα ο οποίος τον Νοέμβριο του 1997 γίνεται στόχος Γερμανών νεοναζί.

"Όχι πια: Μία Ιστορία της Επανάστασης". Σύντομο ντοκιμαντέρ, που παρουσιάζει τον αγώνα της Συρίας για την ελευθερία, όπως τη βιώνουν ένας 32χρονος διοικητής ανταρτών, ο Mowya, και μία 24χρονη δημοσιογράφος, η Nour, στο Χαλέπι.

"Το αυγό του φιδιού". Ντοκιμαντέρ της εκπαιδευτικού Νίνας Γεωργιάδου για την άνοδο του φασισμού στην Ελλάδα.

"Η ελληνική νύχτα των κρυστάλλων". Ντοκιμαντέρ με θέμα το πογκρόμ κατά των Ελλήνων μεταναστών στο Τορόντο του Καναδά το 1918.

"Η αγέλη των λευκών λύκων". Ντοκιμαντέρ που καταγράφει την θανάσιμη δράση Ρώσων Σκίνχεντ, τις ιστορίες των αθώων θυμάτων τους και την τρομακτική απειλή που ξεπροβάλλει στο Βορρά της Ευρώπης.

Η Ελλάδα του Χίτλερ:
: Από την Αλβανία στη Κρήτη.
: Τρόμος και Αντίσταση στο Γ' Ράιχ.
: Η πικρή απελευθέρωση.

Κιαλό Αμαντού, ανήλικος μετανάστης στην Αθήνα. Ταινία μικρού μήκους που προσπαθεί να περιγράψει τη ζωή ενός ξένου στην Ελλάδα, τον κοινωνικό κανιβαλισμό και την φασιστική απειλή.

"The Zambia Project" . Ο οργανισμός World Vision μας παρουσιάζει ένα αφιέρωμα για το νερό, ένα πολύτιμο αγαθό.

Ακολουθώντας το σκληρό ταξίδι δύο οικογενειών Σύρων προσφύγων στην Ευρώπη.

. Ένα μικρό απόσπασμα από ντοκιμαντέρ για τις σκληρές συνθήκες εργασίας στη Μαυριτανία.

"Σταματήστε την παράνομη εμπορία ανθρώπων". Ταινία μικρού μήκους κινουμένων σχεδίων από τη Μαρία Δούνη, τελειόφοιτη του Τ.Ε.Ι. Γραφιστικής Αθηνών, στο πλαίσιο των σπουδών της.

"Εκπαίδευση για τον θάνατο: Η δημιουργία ενός Ναζί". Αντιφασιστικό δεκάλεπτο βίντεο της Walt Disney (1943) που δείχνει την εκπαίδευση του μικρού Γερμανού Χανς στις αρχές του ναζισμού και την μετατροπή του σε κτήνος που καταλήγει να πεθάνει για τον αρχηγό.

"Σταμάτα τη συζήτηση". Ταινία μικρού μήκους με θέμα τη διαφορετικότητα, τη μετανάστευση και την κοινωνική ένταξη.

"Ρατσισμός, ξενοφοβία - Στην ζυμαροχώρα".

"Θα έδινες τη ζακέτα σου στον Johannes;".

Βίντεο για την ιθαγένεια των παιδιώντης "Ελληνικής Ένωσης για τα Δικαιώματα του Ανθρώπου", , , και

"Κι ένα θύμα ρατσιστικής βίας είναι πολύ!". Ύπατη Αρμοστεία του ΟΗΕ για τους πρόσφυγες.

"Πόσο Μακριά Ακόμα;" Γυρισμένο στην Αθήνα μεταξύ Οκτωβρίου 2011 και Φεβρουαρίου 2012, εν μέσω της κοινωνικής, πολιτικής και οικονομικής αναταραχής, το ντοκιμαντέρ δίνει βήμα στις φωνές εκείνων που έχουν εγκαταλείψει το Αφγανιστάν, τη Σομαλία ή το Σουδάν ελπίζοντας να βρουν καταφύγιο στην Ευρώπη.

Συνέντευξη της Ύπατης Αρμοστείας για τους πρόσφυγες.

"Δεν είμαι ρατσιστής αλλά..." Ο Χριστόφορος Ζαραλίκος, ηθοποιός, stand up comedian και ραδιοφωνικός παραγωγός, στέλνει το δικό του μήνυμα ενάντια στον ρατσισμό.

"Το ποδόσφαιρο και οι ναζί δεν πάνε μαζί" . Καμπάνια κατά του ναζισμού από την ομάδα της Μπορούσια Ντόρτμουντ, που αντιμετωπίζει το φαινόμενο με χιούμορ, περνώντας παράλληλα ένα μήνυμα κατά των διακρίσεων.

"Πώς δημιουργείται ένας Ναζί". Δεκάλεπτο φιλμάκι κινουμένων σχεδίων του Walt Disney του 1943, που βασίζεται στο ομώνυμο βιβλίο του Gregor Ziemer.

"Η φτώχεια λέει πολλά παραμύθια".

"Τρεις Γερμανοί φοιτητές εκπλήσσουν έναν άστεγο".

"Η σημασία της εξωτερικής εμφάνισης".

"Η πρώτη διαδραστική αφίσα ενάντια στην φτώχεια".

. Η ιστορία ενός παιδιού πρόσφυγα ( και από εγχειρίδιο με σημειώσεις).

Λίστα με ταινίες για τη διαφορετικότητα, αντιρατσιστικές και αντιφασιστικές. Συμβουλευτικός Σταθμός Νέων Ν. Ηρακλείου.

Λίστα με ταινίες που αφορούν άμεσα ή έμμεσα τη σχολική βία. Συμβουλευτικός Σταθμός Νέων Ν. Ηρακλείου.

Ιστορίες - Μαρτυρίες Τραγούδια
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κοινωνικό καφενείο

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Δωρεάν όλο το εκπαιδευτικό υλικό για το ρατσισμό και τη διαφορετικότητα ΕΔΩ!

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Πηγή: koinonikokafeneio.gr Οικουμενική Διακήρυξη για τα Ανθρώπινα Δικαιώματα από τη Γενική Συνέλευση του ΟΗΕ, 10 Δεκεμβρίου 1948 (, , ιστοσελίδα ). Σύμβαση της UNICEF για τα δικαιώματα του παιδιού. Συνήγορος του Παιδιού. Ύπατη Αρμοστεία ΟΗΕ για τους Πρόσφυγες - UNHCR GREECE. Κίνηση Απελάστε το Ρατσισμό. Διεθνής Αμνηστία. Κέντρο Προάσπισης Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων.

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Η EUNIC, European Union National Institutes for Culture, σας προσκαλεί στην παράσταση Dance Banoptikon της ομάδας σύγχρονου χορού DanceVacuum. Θα προηγηθεί παρουσίαση του Banoptikon Videogame Project από την ομάδα Personal Cinema.

Τρίτη 16 Σεπτεμβρίου 2014, στις 8:00 μ.μ.
στο Σπίτι της Κύπρου
Ξενοφώντος 2Α, Αθήνα
Πληροφορίες: τηλ. 210-3734934, www.spititiskyprou.gr
Είσοδος ελεύθερη

Η εκδήλωση πραγματοποιείται στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος Arts for Social Development που οργανώνεται από την EUNIC με στόχο να φέρει κοντά καλλιτέχνες, καλλιτεχνικούς οργανισμούς και επαγγελματίες του χώρου μαζί με μη κυβερνητικές οργανώσεις και κοινωνικούς επιχειρηματίες με σκοπό να ανταλλάξουν δεξιότητες και απόψεις, καθώς και να ενημερωθούν για τις εξελίξεις στους παραπάνω τομείς έτσι ώστε να δημιουργήσουν κοινές δράσεις για την τοπική ανάπτυξη.
Μεταξύ άλλων το πρόγραμμα φιλοδοξεί να αναδείξει την σημασία και την συμβολή των Τεχνών και του Πολιτισμού στην ανάπτυξη και την ευημερία μιας χώρας. Οι τέχνες αποτελούν ισχυρό μέσο για την διαδικασία κοινωνικής επιμόρφωσης διότι έχουν ευρύτερη απήχηση στην ίδια την κοινωνία και επιτρέπουν την συμμετοχή ατόμων με διαφορετικό υπόβαθρο και καταβολές. Οι κοινές εμπειρίες μπορούν να αλλάξουν την εικόνα του καθενός για τον εαυτό του και τους γύρω του και να δημιουργήσουν επιπλέον συνδέσεις ανάμεσα στα μέλη της κοινωνίας.
Η παράσταση Dance Banoptikon είναι μια υβριδική μορφή περφόρμανς που προέκυψε μέσω της συνεργασίας της ομάδας χορού DanceVacuum και της ομάδας media arts Personal Cinema.
Οι χορευτές είναι κυρίως μετανάστες που ζουν στην Αθήνα, έχουν βιώσει σε καθημερινή βάση τον αποκλεισμό, τις διακρίσεις και τη βία. Αυτά τα βιώματα εκφράζουν στην σκηνή μαζί με Έλληνες χορευτές. Στην περφόρμανς συνδυάζεται το παιχνίδι με την απτή καθημερινή πραγματικότητα. Τα σώματα των χορευτών κινούνται διαρκώς από την "θέση του άβαταρ" στις καταστάσεις που ζουν οι άνθρωποι ενώ παλεύουν για την επιβίωση και αντίθετα. Η διάρκεια της περφόρμανς είναι μια ώρα.
Το videogame Banoptikon, που διαμορφώνει το πλαίσιο της περφόρμανς, ξεκίνησε τον Ιανουάριο του 2010, και ολοκληρώθηκε την Άνοιξη του 2013, στο πλαίσιο του Ευρωπαϊκού ερευνητικού προγράμματος MIG@NET, το οποίο διερευνά την συμβολή των μεταναστών στην παραγωγή και τον μετασχηματισμό των διεθνών ψηφιακών δικτύων, αλλά και το πώς οι νέες ψηφιακές τεχνολογίες των δικτύων χρησιμοποιούνται για τον έλεγχο της μετανάστευσης. Το πρόγραμμα, συντόνισε το Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο Κοινωνικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών, Κέντρο Σπουδών Φύλου και συμπεριλαμβάνει συνεργάτες από επτά Ευρωπαϊκές χώρες.

Εργασιακή ομάδα videogame Banoptikon
Personal Cinema collective: Γιάννης Σκουλιδάς (artist-programmer), Ηλίας Μαρμαράς (media artist), Ξένια Κολιοφώτη (scriptco-writer and editor), Δάφνη Δραγώνα (new media curator).
Collaborators: Δημήτρης Φωτίου (sculptor-3D designer), Αλέξανδρος Σαλαπάτας (programmer)
http://banoptikon.mignetproject.eu
www.personalcinema.org

Συντελεστές Dance Banoptikon
Ιδέα-Χορογραφία: Βίκυ Βασιλοπούλου
Κείμενα: Μίλτος Σαχτούρης, Wislawa Szymborska, T.S. Eliot
Χορεύουν: Άρτζη Μπαρουξή, Ελίνα Τζαβάρα, Abduol Nazari, Omar Rose, Tapha Diaw
Φωτογραφίες παράστασης: Νότα Καλαντζή

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Παράσταση Dance Banoptikon στο Σπίτι της Κύπρου

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Η EUNIC, European Union National Institutes for Culture, σας προσκαλεί στην παράσταση Dance Banoptikon της ομάδας σύγχρονου χορού DanceVacuum. Θα προηγηθεί παρουσίαση του Banoptikon Videogame Project από την ομάδα Personal Cinema. Τρίτη 16 Σεπτεμβρίου 2014, στις 8:00 μ.μ. στο Σπίτι της Κύπρου Ξενοφώντος 2Α, Αθήνα Πληροφορίες: τηλ.

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Mια σειρά χιουμοριστικών βίντεο ενάντια στο ρατσισμό:

Χριστόφορος Ζαραλίκος: «Δεν είμαι ρατσιστής αλλά…» [Οπαδός]
Χριστόφορος Ζαραλίκος: «Δεν είμαι ρατσιστής αλλά…» [Λεωφορείο]
Σίλας Σεραφείμ: «Οι άνθρωποι αγαπούν τα χρώματα!»
Σίλας Σεραφείμ: «Όλοι εν δυνάμει πρόσφυγες»
Σίλας Σεραφείμ: «Αν ήταν ρατσιστές...»

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www.unhcr.gr
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The 2014 Winner: Butterflies

In a violence-ridden corner of Colombia a group of courageous women are putting their lives at risk helping survivors of displacement and sexual abuse.

In a country with 5 million people uprooted by conflict, Buenaventura stands as a graphic testimonial. The city has one of the highest rates of violence and displacement due to escalating conflict between illegal armed groups. Sadly women are often their targets. The groups violate women and children to demonstrate their power and strength. Women are tortured, raped or killed to exact revenge on armed rivals.

Butterflies provides one-on-one support for victims of abuse and reaches out into communities to educate women and put pressure on the authorities to uphold women's rights.

Many of Butterflies members have been forcibly displaced as a result of Colombia's armed conflict, or have had relatives killed or gone missing. Many are also survivors of domestic and sexual violence. It is this experience that pushes them to continue their work in spite of the risks.

On foot or by bus, Gloria Amparo, Maritza Asprilla Cruz and Mery Medina - three of the Butterflies' coordinators- cautiously move through the most dangerous neighbourhoods to help women access medical and psychological care and accompany them to report crimes. Through regular workshops they also teach women practical skills allowing them to make a living and know their rights. So far, Butterflies volunteers have turned around the lives of more than 1000 women and their families.

Butterflies has become a driving force in raising awareness about the high levels of violence against women. Despite attracting the attention of armed groups, they organize protests, marching the streets of Buenaventura clamoring "No more abuse of women" - determined to break down walls of fear and silence.
Gloria Amparo, Maritza Asprilla Cruz and Mery Medina represented Butterflies at UNHCR's Nansen Refugee Award Ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland on 29 September.
Gloria is a long-time rights activist, who helped establish the Butterflies in 2010. Her own childhood was one of extreme poverty with an abusive father who regularly beat her mother. Witnessing this violence fuelled her ambition to dedicate her life to helping women victimised by violence.

Gloria is convinced the way to empower women who suffer displacement and abuse is to ensure they know their rights.Every corner of Buenaventura is tainted by violence, with rival armed groups setting up invisible boundaries to control neighbourhoods. In 1993 she was forced to flee to Bogota to escape threats on her life. Gloria must navigate these realities each and every day as she carries out her work.

Maritza is passionate about defending women's rights. Like many others in Buenaventura she grew up in a home marked by extreme poverty and abuse. Her mother was regularly beaten up by her stepfather. Two years ago she joined Butterflies after an encounter with Gloria which convinced her that she too could make a difference in women's lives.

Martiza leads many of the Butterflies' human rights workshops and is source of inspiration for the women traumatised by violence and displacement in Buenaventura's Vista Hermosa neighborhood where she lives, an impoverished area plagued by gang violence. She also encourages other women to volunteer and become part of Butterflies and focuses on raising self-esteem among women.

Mery spends her days painstakingly guiding women to access services, report crimes, and seek the justice they deserve.

She accompanies women through the painful, traumatic and sometimes threatening process of seeking help. By reporting crimes and seeking medical help Mery believes that sexual violence in conflict will no longer be an invisible scourge in Buenaventura. She feels that exposing it will help the women, their families and the entire community heal and become stronger.

As part of this process, Mery -together with other Butterflies volunteers/members helps organise protest marches, vigils, and stand-ins.

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The 2014 Winner: Butterflies - Refugee Stories

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In a violence-ridden corner of Colombia a group of courageous women are putting their lives at risk helping survivors of displacement and sexual abuse. In a country with 5 million people uprooted by conflict, Buenaventura stands as a graphic testimonial. The city has one of the highest rates of violence and displacement due to escalating conflict between illegal armed groups.

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2013 Nansen Refugee Award Ceremony Highlights 

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The Award Ceremony
Gloria Amparo, Maritza Asprilla Cruz and Mery Medina represented Butterflies at UNHCR's Nansen Refugee Award Ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland on 29 September.
Speaking on behalf of Butterflies, Gloria talked about the violent situation in Buenaventura and their commitment to continue their work:

"This violence is heightened and inflicted against us, women and girls in the midst of the armed conflict of Buenaventura, a conflict which we have been living through for many years. This violence not only intimidates us, but also affects us physically and psychologically. Often, fleeing is the only escape."

"We are but one example of efforts by many Afro-Colombian communities, organizations and towns which struggle for the recognition of our rights to diversity, identity, cultural richness and other ways of living. We ask for your solidarity so that you can keep supporting us today and tomorrow in the construction of our future."

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, presented the award and Nansen Medal to the three representatives of the women's rights group. Praising their dedication, he said, "Every day they put their own lives at risk - in order to rescue abused and displaced women and children. Butterflies are truly a grass root organisation and they help the most vulnerable people in the most vulnerable region."

Referring to the heroic work of Butterflies, António Guterres said, "Protection is what they do. They not only assist and support victims, but organise them to fight for their rights, report the crimes and seek justice."
The Award ceremony featured a keynote speech on video by UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie and musical performances by Maher Zain, Rokia Traore and Rodrigo y Gabriela.
Angelina Jolie, UNHCR Special Envoy, world-renowned actress and film director.

As a staunch advocate for ending sexual violence in conflict Angelina Jolie praises the work of the women of Butterflies in a special recorded message:

"The Mariposas [Butterflies] draw on their strengths as women to help thousands of vulnerable people who would otherwise have no rights and no protection. By winning this award, I hope it helps more people everywhere to understand that we have to change attitudes to sexual violence, and to help end impunity for these crimes."

Maher Zain, Multi-platinum award winning Swedish singer-songwriter

Maher Zain said that his visit with UNHCR to meet Syrian refugees in Lebanon had made him appreciate even more the impact of the butterflies 'lifesaving work'.

Maher has been actively supporting UNHCR since World Refugee Day 2013 and has recently visited UNHCR frontline work for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. At the Nansen Refugee Awards 2014 Maher debuted a new song that he has written specifically for the ceremony. 'One Day' was inspired by Syrian refugees he met in Lebanon and the millions of other forcibly displaced around the world.

Rokia Traoré, Internationally acclaimed Malian singer-songwriter

Rokia Traoré recognised the great 'courage and strength' shown by the Butterflies and the importance of their stance against gender and sexual based violence.

Rokia began a new role with UNHCR when she supported World Refugee Day travelling to Burkina Faso to visit Malian refugees in the camp of Goudobou.

Rodrigo y Gabriela, Internationally acclaimed Mexican guitar duo

Rodrigo y Gabriela said it was a great honour to be able to recognise the unique achievement of the Butterflies.

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Gloria Amparo, Maritza Asprilla Cruz and Mery Medina represented Butterflies at UNHCR's Nansen Refugee Award Ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland on 29 September. Speaking on behalf of Butterflies, Gloria talked about the violent situation in Buenaventura and their commitment to continue their work: "This violence is heightened and inflicted against us, women and girls in the midst of the armed conflict of Buenaventura, a conflict which we have been living through for many years.

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