Europe
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What we can still learn from the fall of the Berlin Wall
08-11-2019Did we learn anything from the fall of the Berlin Wall? Thirty years later, we seem to have forgotten what can happen when ordinary people unite for human rights and democracy. They must be supported, especially those people standing up for their rights in Lebanon, Iraq and Sudan.
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UN truck donated to Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Center
05-11-2019The Dutch government has donated a military truck, a so-called “four-tonner”, to the Memorial Center Srebrenica-Potocari.
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Recognition for peacebuilding and reconciliation in the Balkans
03-10-2019A new generation of young people committed to peace and human rights has received the prestigious Václav Havel Prize. The prize is named after one of the founders of Charta '77 which advocated a peaceful overthrow of the communists in Czechoslovakia. The Youth Initiative for Human Rights receives the award for its outstanding work on peacebuilding and reconciliation in former Yugoslavia.
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Dialogue police in Ukraine getting help from PAX partner
23-07-2019PAX's main partner in Ukraine is going to help train a special dialogue police recently established there.
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Court recognizes Dutch mistakes in Srebenica
22-07-2019The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that Dutch soldiers serving as UN peacekeepers in Srebrenica should not have sent away the more than 300 men who were at their compound in July 1995. They ruled this an unlawful act.
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Challenges ahead for EU as peace project
03-06-2019The results of the elections for the European parliament mark the beginning of a new challenging time for the European Union.
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Karadzic sentenced again
21-03-2019Radovan Karadzic, former president and commander-in-chief of the Republika Srpska in Bosnia-Herzegovina, has now been sentenced to life in prison.
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Srebrenica genocide remembered
10-07-2018More victims of the genocide which took place on 11 July 1995 in Srebrenica are identified every year, even after 23 years.
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PAX advice on non-government controlled areas in Ukraine
11-04-2018At the beginning of this year, the Ukrainian government adopted a legislative act, which in the public discourse came to be known as the Donbas reintegration bill. This new law addresses the non-government controlled areas (NGCAs) in Donbas region of Ukraine, which is a territory, where Russia-backed rebels are in military confrontation with the government of Ukraine.
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Ratko Mladic convicted of genocide and war crimes
22-11-2017Today Ratko Mladic has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Yugoslavia Tribunal. 'The butcher of the Balkans' has been found guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Peace organisation PAX is pleased with this verdict and sees it as recognition of the grief of survivors and relatives.
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