Imagine there are elections in your country today and you will vote for your favourite candidate to represent you on a global level. This person, whom you can directly talk to about your concerns, takes your ideas to the global parliament. For European readers this might sound familiar, as they have the world’s most developed [...]
December 16, 2011
You are just a number
Visa bureaucracy This might sound like fiction – but it is a true story. Diego studies in Canada. He is a Colombian citizen. His sister Ana is studying in Germany. She wants him to spend Christmas with her, as she can’t miss classes and won’t be able to travel. So she invites her brother to [...]
December 8, 2011
I wish for a World Passport
December 10th is Human Rights Day and the United Nations are celebrating the 63rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was through the transforming power of social media that people were able to show their strength and fight for their rights. This is why Navanethem Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human [...]
December 5, 2011
Not welcome!
A Colombian national living in London and working there in a high position was supposed to attend an important conference in Spain two weeks ago. She applied for a Schengen-visa to enter Spain. It was denied to her twice. Spain, now facing high numbers of unemployment, is afraid of letting migrants in – well, al [...]
December 2, 2011
Your right to move
We live in a globalized world where borders of nations are being exchanged by a broader vision of the world, at least this is how our global civil society perceives it. We are all connected to each other, either through the coffee I drink, the clothes you produce or the internet we use. Protesters in [...]
November 30, 2011
Cineccità – Where dreams come true
These Italian film studios hide Europe’s biggest indoor studio – teatro 5 – also known as Federico Fellini’s second home. Filmmakers from all over the world come to shoot their films at Cinecittà. The studios were created by dictator Benito Mussolini during the Fascist period. For the first time ever since Cinecittà was built in 1937, [...]
December 21, 2011
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