BalkanThemes Volume 1: Issue 4 – Human Trafficking
The fourth issue of BalkanThemes focuses on the challenges organizations and individuals face in dealing with human trafficking cases in the former Yugoslavia and beyond.
Human Trafficking in the Balkans
Human trafficking is endemic in the Balkans. The region offers ideal conditions: political instability; social and economic malaise; a prevalence of organized criminal networks; and a culture of corruption.
Maydan: A Revolution in a Hundred Portraits
A new exhibition in Sarajevo uses protesters’ faces to show another face of the protests at Maidan square during the revolution in Ukraine.
In Search of Truth: Perspectives on Fact-Checking
David Schafer reports on WARM Festival’s ”Fact Checking Challenges” program, which discussed the role and technical challenges of fact checking in conflict reporting.
Kosovo: Exodus and Independence
“Anywhere from 25,000 all the way to 100,000 have been reported to have emigrated since last fall. Why are all these people desperate to flee the country that only years ago they ached to see free?”