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Human rights and civic liberties

Migrants pay the price for Poland’s nationalistic posture with their lives

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Belarus
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The hosts of "On the Barricades," Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski, discuss the situation on the Polish-Belarussian border in this episode, focusing on the Polish authorities' cynical, violent, and downright stupid response to what they...

Humanitarian crisis on the EU’s eastern border and the Polexit humbug

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Human rights and civic liberties
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The Polish-Belarussian border became a place of utter terror for thousands of Middle Eastern migrants who were enticed by Belarussian dictatorial leader Lukashenko with the prospect of easy access to the European Union. The Polish...

Polish fundamentalist barbarism bears fruit: a young woman died as a result of the abortion ban en..

Boyan Stanislavski
Gender issues
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A 30-year-old woman who was 22 weeks pregnant died on September 22, 2021, at the Pszczyna County Hospital. On admission, PROM was diagnosed, and fetal malformations were confirmed. The fetus died while in the hospital....

EU’s externalization of borders enables geopolitical power plays using migrants as political pawns

Vladimir Mitev
European Union
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Ahlam Chemlali, is a PhD Fellow at DIIS – Danish Institute for International Studies and Aalborg University, Global Refugee Studies in Copenhagen Denmark. Chemlali explores how the militarisation and externalisation of European border control to...

There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth

Right to City (Timişoara, România)
Human rights and civic liberties
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With the increasing militarization of the Croatian-Bosnian border and in an overall hostile environment towards migrants, the Balkan route has been shifting in recent months towards Romania. Since October 2020, there has been a sharp...

What Is the Hungarian “Pedophilia Act” and What Is behind It?

Rita Béres-Deák
Analysis
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On June 10, 2021, the Hungarian parliament made public the contents of a proposed “Pedophilia Act,” to be voted on less than a week later, on June 15. The bill has caused general outrage among national and...

Security and the Left in Europe – Perspectives from the European Parliament

The Barricade
Gender issues
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Security is a basic need and an urgent necessity for everyone, particularly for those affected by war, violent conflict, police brutality, hate crimes, or domestic violence. Yet, current debates on security are mostly co-opted by...

We condemn the Israeli settler-colonial violence against Palestinians

We unequivocally condemn the recent escalation of the Israeli state’s persisting settler-colonial violence against Palestinians, which has most recently manifested itself in the forced expulsions of families from the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh...

Poland: A student is expelled from school for opposing Catholic fundamentalism

Boyan Stanislavski
Citizens Movements
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Teachers with a favorable attitude toward the government, it turns out, could also be used for the same purpose. According to Polish media, a Catholic school in Białystok, north-eastern Poland, expelled a 17-year-old female student...

Polish right-wingers are getting carried away. They now want to outlaw abortion in the Czech Repub..

Boyan Stanislavski
Czechia
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There does not appear to be a more appropriate way to describe the Polish embassy's March letter to the Czech Ministry of Health. It was signed by Antoni Wręga, the Polish chargé d'affaires in Prague....