Yesterday morning at 7 a.m. in the morning six german policemen entered the house of an aquaintance of mine. They spent one hour searching his room and his belongings and confiscated his computer and other things. The official reason? On his website he had a link to a group who advocates non-violent resistance to the atom lobby. It is not hard to imagine what all his neighbours will think. If you thought this kind of thing was only possible in CIS-countries, think otherwise. Since the new laws to limit civil liberties it seems no law-abiding citizen is safe in their own homes, also not in the EU. Details...

@ Artemovsk/Ukraine, 04.-05.08.2007 by Sven Rasch The Training Session focussed on enabling participants to prepare educational activities on the topic of Human Rights which shall be implemented between the 8th and 20th of August in international workcamps on environmental and social inclusion topics in the framework of the long-term project „Youth Transcending New Frontiers“ took place on saturday 4th and sunday 5th of August in the city of Artemovsk, Donetsk-region/Ukraine and brought together five international volunteers from Irland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Ukraine, and the United States of America plus two memebers of the local Projectmanagement Team (PMT) that organized the event at Artemovsk. Details...

Buchenwald – Post description Period: 01.09.2007 – 31.08.2008 The Buchenwald Memorial (former Nazi-concentration camp) has visitors from all over the world. They come in groups or as individuals and stay for some hours or for seminars. The volunteer will contribute with their own cultural background and individual personality to deeper knowledge and understanding of the past and of the present. The memorial is interested to host a further volunteer to promote the internationality of the place and specifically deal with documentation in Russian language, enquiries from CIS former prisoners or their relatives and CIS visitors to the centre. In this field, the intercultural exchange is very important. Details...

10.11.06 – “Dance for Life” – A program focusing on raising awareness about rights of people living with HIV, prepared by Volunteers of the Regional AIDS Center. 11.11.06 – Lecture “Fight for Nations’ Rights in the World” by Young Scholars 12.11.06 – Lecture “Federalism, Regional Rights, and Rights of Aboriginals” by Young Scholars From the 13-18th of November, there will be an Essay and Comics Contest on the theme of Tolerance and Crystal Night at Buryat University – Department of French Language and Literature. The best submissions from these contests will be presented at our exhibition. Details...

On August 11th, on the Nistru riverside, at Vadul lui Voda beach, is going to be held Vadul lui Woodstock Festival, where through the international language of music, rock groups from the two sides of Nistru are going to give Live performances promoting peace and friendliness, persuading people of culture, art and media to enliven public dialogue in order to straighten relations between plain folks of both sides of the transnistrian conflict. The festival is not a commercial action; the participation of groups is voluntary. This event is expected to be joined by a great number of youngsters, both from left side of Nistru and from the right side - Transnistria (Pridnestrovie). Details...

In the period of 26th – 29th July 2007, the Association of International Volunteering from Moldova, in the frame of Youth Transcending New Frontiers, is organizing the “Human Rights on bicycles” activity. During 3 days, a group of 13 volunteers are going to ride to Sarata Galbena , Mereseni and Caracui. They are going to organize there Human Rights Seminars. Via a bicycle “convoy” they will distribute announcements about the seminars and lot of leaflets about the meaning of human rights. The target group of the seminars will be children aged between 16-18th years old. Details...

This is the time for SVIT to pack backpacks - August is the month to pick fruits of almost a year of preparation work for our volunteer projects. This year we worked hard to organize diverse projects on different topics: environment and work with disabled children, anti-racism, gender and human rights education. We worked with our local partners to plan and set-up the projects, evaluated past experiences, organized trainings for our members, discussed programs and activities, wrote hundreds of emails and made as many phone calls. Details...

YTNF has reached its half-way stage - phew! An appropriate time to pause for breath, evaluate what has happened (which is what the Steering Group will do at its upcoming meeting in Ukraine) and hopefully execute a good strategy and decisions for the remaining period. Looking at the world around us, I have been struck in recent months by how little we come across the word "solidarity" in our media anymore. Instead, the focus is almost entirely on individual gain, making private profit & maximising the expolitation of human and natural resources in order to achieve that aim. What is more, governments and multis seem to be working hand-in-hand on this, disguised under the name "globalisation". Details...

AVI-Moldova had the privilege to receive a high-level delegation from the EU during the period 20-23 June 2007. The delegation, composed of the Head of the Youth Division of the EU, Mr Philippe Cova, as well as the responsible person for EVS exchanges, Ms Cecilia Lo Piparo Liljegren, made the field visit in order to evaluate on-going EVS projects via talks with organisers, project hosts and current long-term volunteers. They were also interested to see and investigate the results of YTNF. Details...

In the meantime our site is being accessed by an average of ten thousand visitors per month. I am wondering how much more our  PMTs (Project Management Teams) could achieve if each visitor could kindly donate 1 Euro each to our project... Details...

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