Orange is reporting from Athens, Greece.
Dobryiana Tropankeva, the Orange Magazine Project Coordinator and Soraia Ramos, Content Editor
are covering the Conference ‘Your Vote can UNITE’ – Campaigning Against Populism and Racism.
95 people from 34 countries of Council of Europe will attend to the event. Participants represent (inter)national human rights, antiracist, antifascist, refugee, minority rights organizations and active grass-roots groups from all over Europe.
From 7 to 12 April Orange Magazine will be covering debates, workshops, trainings, presentations, political cafés, information market, cultural activities, excursions, open forum and good practices sharing moments, using formal and non-formal working methods.
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More than discussions about Campaigning against populism and racism, this conference main event was the lauching of the UNITED Campaign, Your Vote Can Unite!, on Thursday, 10th of April, in Athens.
Social Community Representatives were together with this international participants to talk about this European Campaign Around EU Elections. A public debate about racist and populist parties and minority rights followed by multiple visits to different local NGO’s working in Athens were part of the participants Programme.
The Non-Government Organizations that the participants could know deeply and visit were
– Generation 2.0
– LGBT Colour Youth
– Migrant Department of Athens Labour Unions Organization EKA
– Syn-Eirmos – Babel – Day Center for Mental Health of Immigrants
– Greek Council for Refugees
After 5 days of Conference Programme, the last Plenary Session was dedicated to future actions.
Campaign Planning was the topic and to develop and share new ideas and build future cooperation were the goals.
You can find them out on the articles of this Orange Magazine Special Edition.
New Campaingns, new ideas and a new UNITED Conference are on the spotlight now. Georgia is the next venue.
