It is the fifth time that Transcultural Campaigning director Melita H. Sunjic conducted a children’s workshop on refugees in collaboration with UNHCR Austria. It was held in the context of Vienna University’s popular summer programme Kinderuni (Children’s University). A total of 44 girls and boys, aged seven and 12, enthusiastically discussed the issue and shared […]
Die Komplexität des Migrationsthemas und des EU-Migrationspaktes in wenigen Minuten zu erklären, ist keine einfache Aufgabe. Zusammen mit der Leiterin des EU-Büros der Stadt Wien in Brüssel, Michaela Kauer, hat das Transcultural-Direktorin Melita Sunjic in diesem Kurzvideo versucht.
It is always a pleasure to participate in the Course on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict at the Austrian Center for Peace in Stadtschlaining. It is a UN certified training for mid and senior level civilian, military or police experts. The participants are preparing for deployment in peace support operations and complex emergencies. Transcultural […]
Auch wenn es in den Zeitungen anders kolportiert wird, funktioniert in Favoriten, einem Wiener Gemeindebezirk mit hohem Zuwanderungsanteil, der interreligiöse Dialog seit 2010 hervorragend. Soziale Problem, die es in dem Bezirk gibt, muss man als solche lösen und nicht als interreligiöse Konflikte verschleiern. Ich hatte das Privileg, eine Diskussionsreihe zu dem Thema als Moderatorin zu […]
Years of fortifying Europe’s external borders have brought about many negative side effects such as high costs, more organised crime and considerable police corruption. As an instrument of migration management, however, this has proved inefficient. Why many European politicians still regard stricter border control as the single best strategy to curb irregular migration is a […]
During a fact finding mission at the Bosnian-Croatian border I was asked by the national TV news to share my impressions about the situation in general and the situation of pushed back migrants.
Europe’s migration policy is not combatting irregular migration but migrants. EU borders are places of violence and human rights violations. Moreover, the EU is exporting this policy to neighboring states. In an opinion piece for the Viennese daily Der Standard, Transcultural Campaigning’s Director analyses the situation. Read more (German)
Video Interview with Pragmaticus magazine about the ugly face of the EU at its external southern borders, and other refugee issues:
CARE Austria recently talked to its new board member, Transcultural Director Melita Sunjic, three times in three languages. The interviews covered her personal experiences as a refugee, where in the world most people have to flee, why migration is necessary, and integration is difficult. Sunjic underlined the need for a solidarity-based, fact-based and at the […]
Opening a conference on migration in the world’s oldest press club – Presseclub Concordia in Vienna – on 14 February, I tried to summarise the inefficiency of EU migration policies in four chapters: The Stop Migration Deception The Storming Europe Myth The Closed Border Illusion The Not Our Problem Paradox View the full video here.
