Women and children
Since 2011, Turkey has given asylum to over 3.5 million Syrians. Half of them are women: according to a recent UN report, their situation is plagued by sexual violence and patriarchal norms. The majority of them do not know where to turn for assistance. The challenges for women refugees in Turkey, reported by our Fazila Mat.
Most of the 46 children who left the Bjelave orphanage in Sarajevo in 1992, when the city was under siege, never returned to Bosnia: they were given up for adoption and most of them are still looking for their biological parents. Nicole Corritore tells the story of one of them and sets the context in an interview with human rights activist Jagoda Savić.
More news: Just a few months after its foundation, the civic movement Zagreb je naš (Zagreb is ours) entered the city council of Zagreb and now leads the opposition to Milan Bandić's decade-long rule. An interview with Tomislav Tomašević
