Dublin conference: Making diversity work for cities

“Intercultural integration policy does not mean spending more on integration but spending better by targeting resources where they yield best results,” says Irena Guidikova, manager of the Intercultural cities project and a driving force behind the conference.

Video: Memories of the Holocaust – ‘La Shoah par balles’

In this video, historian Pierre-Philippe Preux, casts light on a little-known aspect of the Holocaust – the gruesome murder by gunshot of almost one and a half million Jews from Ukraine.

Violence against women: Teliwel Diallo on female genital mutilation

After suffering genital mutilation twice, Teliwel Diallo became an outspoken critic of the practice. Her defiance made her enemies. Her life was endangered and she was forced to flee her home in Guinea.

Violence against women: Alexis Bowater on stalking

“In all cases, a victim’s life is stolen,” says Alexis Bowater, the United Kingdom Chief Executive of the Network for Surviving Stalking. “There is a reason stalking is called psychological rape. There is a reason it is called psychological terrorism.”

Jagland: After Breivik terrorist outrage, fighting hate speech is “personal”

Jagland said he would never forget the 22 July 2011 events in Oslo and Utøya and honoured the victims in his speech to a 27 November Budapest conference on the fight against hate speech.