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Wahlurne in HK
Elections Hong Kong
Charles Mok

Elections in Hong Kong: What choice do the people have?

On 19 December, HK is electing a new legislative council. This is the election that should have taken place in 2020, and that was postponed amid claims of pandemic concerns. Since then, a new election law has been passed – and people in HK have less of a choice than ever. Freiheit.org interviewed MR Charles Mok, a former LegCo Councillor, about this upcoming election, what it means for HK and where the city is going from here.

Đorđo Žujović
SERBIA
Dušan Dinić

"Evil is evil and we should say that it is evil"

As a long-time prominent member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the NGO Regional, Đorđo Žujović has worked countless times on joint projects with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. He became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia this year, and we had this short conversation with him because of an act of the civic courage which he has demonstrate numerous times before.

Womenpreneur Initiative
Female Forward
Odilia Abreu

Advancing women’s place in the entrepreneurial scene

For the past six years, Sana advised the United Nations, European Commission, corporate institutions and organisations on gender issues. She was heavily involved in SDGs discussions, she helped draft several resolutions and recommendations on gender in New York, Bali, Geneva, and Paris and presented them to UN representatives. Today we had the chance to interview Sana Afouiaz, find out here what we have learned.
Prof. Florian Bieber
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Michael Roick

''The escalation goes even further this time …''

The headline published by SPIEGEL several days ago read ''Bosnian Serbs threaten to secede''. The focus is once again on Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of the three-member Presidency. According to SPIEGEL, he is pushing for ''gradual dissolution'' of the Balkan state. How do you assess the latest escalation?

Péter Márki-Zay
HUNGARY
Toni Skorić

Lessons From the Hungarian Opposition Primaries

Six Hungarian opposition parties from across the political spectrum held the country’s first national primary contest in order to choose the joint candidates who will take on the country’s long-serving and increasingly autocratic prime minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party in the next parliamentary elections in 2022. Andrea Virág, Director of strategy at Republikon Institute, presents key takeaways from the Hungarian opposition primaries.

Maryna Rusia Shukiurava from Belarus
Female Forward International
Zornitsa Stoilova

Meet Maryna Rusia Shukiurava from Belarus

The female activist and singer on her quest for freedom and discovery of the new female identity. Meet Maryna Rusia Shukiurava, our Female Forward ambassador from Belarus

Crudu 3
#FEMALEFORWARDINTERNATIONAL
Svetoslav Todorov

Meet Rodica Crudu from Moldova

Moldovan university professor and entrepreneurship expert Rodica Crudu on the challenges of staying in your home country and making your way in a male-dominated environment. She is an associate professor, a European economic policies expert at a NGO, and editor-in-chief of the Eastern European Journal of Regional Studies.

Women leading protests documentary film: Maryna Rusia Shukiurava
#FEMALEFORWARDINTERNATIONAL
Zornitsa Stoilova

Women Leading Protests: Maryna Rusia Shukiurava

The documentary film “Women Leading Protests” tells the story of a Belarusian activist and music artist and all the other brave women fighting Lukashenko’s regime

Milos Nikolic Libek
Serbia
Michael Roick

"Hope will emerge from vision of the future"

How can we give citizens back their faith in representative democracy? The president of Libek, Milos Nikolic, describes in an interview how democratic visions were gradually destroyed. Corruption, clientelism and the "strong hand" of the president characterize today's society and political climate. No way out? Nowhere?

Belgrade Pride Parade 2021
Human Rights
Edita Barać-Savić

Vuk Raičević about this year's Belgrade Pride Parade

We asked Vuk Raičević, Legal Officer at the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, three questions regarding this year's Belgrade Pride Parade, after last year's event had to be held completely online due to the COVID pandemic.

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