A quarterly scholarly journal and news magazine. From the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) Södertörn University, Stockholm
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Educated as a journalist, active since 1991. Internship at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs (Swedish: Utrikespolitiska Institutet), spring 1990 – right when the Wall fell. Freelance writer reporting on the revolutions in Eastern Europe and Russia for the Swedish press.
Over the years has been an editor of specialist literature and author of articles and reports. Has also lectured and taught journalism. Editor of the magazine Tidningen Brottsoffer [Crime victims magazine] and its Web site, 2003–2009.
Master’s thesis in economic history, focusing on human trafficking from the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe, spring 2009. Published article: Victim, object, loser, breadwinner and actor. A more complexed understanding of trafficked women. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap [Journal of Gender Studies], nr 3, 2010.
National coordinator in 2009 for a research project Feasibility and Assessment Study on a European Hotline for Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings, which the European Commission initiated. 2010, country researcher for the EU project E-Notes, European NGOs Observatory on Trafficking, Exploitation and Slavery (http://www.e-notes-observatory.org/).
2011 taking part in the European project Safer Path, conducting research on asylum-seekers and trafficked people’s rights and access to support services in EU Member States.
Since 2011 Swedish representant in ENPATES (European NGO:s Platform Against Trafficking, Exploitation and Slavery) working with information exchange, data collection, co-operation around victim support issues and monitoring measures taken in the combat trafficking in human beings.
Representing CBEES in a project (2012-2014) about trafficking and exploitation of bodies and dreams ”Dream business”, which involves three steps; workshops with young people and practitioners; staging a theater play and arranging seminars with researchers and experts to create a wider context around the play and the questions it arises. More information www.dreambusiness.se. Eventually the play will also be performed in cities around the Baltic Sea.
Dehumanization of groups of people is a prerequisite for human trafficking. The very same factor that make vulnerable groups target of discrimination also make people vulnerable to human trafficking. The link between discrimination and human trafficking was the theme on OSCE:s 12th "Alliance against Trafficking in Persons" Conference.
Baltic Worlds will be monitoring the European Football Championship in June here on Baltic Worlds’ website. A number of articles will [...]
“Why is there no happiness in the East?” was the, according to many, provocative title of a conference put on by CBEES and Södertörn University September 8–10 of this year. The organizers of the conference, Teresa Kulawik, Renata Ingbrant and Youlia Gradskova, wanted to bring together feminist scholars for a discussion about conditions facing feminism in the East and in the West after the Berlin Wall, as well as the role of the EU and politics in the development of feminism.
Natalia Zubarevich, Department of Geography, Moscow State University, is keynote speaker at Baltic Worlds Annual Roundtable: Market Reform and Socio-Economic Change in Russia, October 6. She notes a growing polarization between people and regions. Modernization is necessary.
Baltic Worlds Roundtable illuminates the tremendous changes that Russian social and economic life has undergone due to the introduction of market economy after the fall of state socialism. The Rondtable takes place October 6, 2011.
A number of representatives of the opposition in Belarus participated in a seminar “The Way Forward for Belarus”. The seminar addressed such issues as the difficulties experienced by the opposition in working for democracy and human rights in Belarus and what the outside world can do to support their work.
Balkan experts attending the symposium “Memory and Manipulation: Religion as Politics in the Balkans", agree that the war was directed from the top, and that “top-down” is the key to understanding how the war began in the region.
The Russian energy strategy for the next few years includes lofty goals. While other countries are investing 1.5 percent of their GDP in the energy sector, Russia is spending 5 percent. This was noted at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) Annual Conference on Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Professor Shelley was the keynote speaker at the “Human Trafficking: The Nexus Between Research and Operative Work” conference in Uppsala, Sweden on November 25, 2010. She noted that human trafficking always grows where there are large social gaps and little opportunity for poor people to improve their situation. However the organization, manifestation and methods used in the combat are culturally distinctive.
Baltic Worlds will be commenting on the parliamentary and presidential elections taking place in countries around the Baltic Sea region and in Eastern Europe. The comments and analyses, written by researchers and in a few cases by expert journalists, present the parties, the candidates and the main issues of the election, as well as analyze the implications of the results. First out: a report from the election in Poland this summer.