On Wednesday, 07 March 2012, 19:00, AIAU organized a movie night regarding the Amnesty Fall 2011 campaign on the segregation of Roma kids in Eastern Europe. The event had already been planned to take place in September 2011 together with AI campaign coordinator Helle Jacobsen. As the movie had been accepted to take part in a Danish documentary festival a few days prior to the event, the group was not able to show it before the festival took place. As a result, the movie evening had to be postponed.
Before the movie there was an introduction to the evening by Christoph Zimdahl and talks about the segregation issue by Alice Jean Blanc, Friederike Stoehr and Alexandra Miruna Ionescu. Further than that, we were happy to have Sofie Marseen and Jakob Hansen of Silba joining us for the event. Silba is a Danish organization that works to promote freedom and democracy in the new EU member states and other Eastern European countries. Sofie and Jakob told us about the work of Silba and their experiences in relation to the segregation of Roma during the organization’s election observations in Eastern Europe.
The evening turned out to be a big success, with about 40 interested people showing up for the event.
For more info about the movie, check out: http://www.ourschoolfilm.blogspot.com/
AIAU were invited to a talk about youth activism organized by ‘Humanity in Action’. Three activists from Sudan, Venezuela and Belarus spoke about the youth groups they are involved in, why they are active and the challenges they face.
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