by Špela Krajnc They say Trump has split America. I say Melania has split the world of ethics. By majority judged for who she married, by minority loved for her origin in Sevnica. Let’s talk about HER for Women’s day. Let’s talk about ethics for Women’s day. We need this. Coincidence or not, I come…
By Spela Krajnc, Migle Vaisnoraite, Catalin Radu and Anna Severinenko Click Here for Full Story
Can the Government Define a Religion as Fake? By Spela Krajnc, Tommaso Lecca, Petra Ondrisakova, Anna Severinenko The Dutch secularism has been challenged since the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster engaged a legal battle to be recognized as a religion. What might seem to be a complete nonsense for outsiders is actually a…
by Antonella Serrecchia According to the report submitted by NJCM and Kompass, two Dutch advocacy foundations for human rights, the level of safeguard of the fundamental rights is not as high as one may think in the land of treadmills and freedoms. We can read in the report: “the Netherlands is performing well in terms…
By Anna Portella The world’s elite league of fashion weeks are getting their catwalks ready to host the new FW17 collections over the following month – starting at New York and followed by London, Milan and Paris. However to witness rather uncommon, risky and less market-driven (and probably less budget) fashion concepts we should step back to second-raw platforms. For example, the 080…
by Marijn Thijs and Emily Howard Karine Bonneau is the Director of International Justice for the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). The Federation works to defend all liberties set out by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, representing 184 human rights organisations from 112 countries. The Spoke caught up with Bonneau at the end…
By Marijn Thijs, Ines Mette, Matthew Richards and Emily Howard A sausage roll. Clog making. Indonesian rice tables. Student societies. Mid-winter horn blowing. Four of these are recognised as fundamental aspects of Dutch culture, according to the Centre for Dutch Intangible Cultural Heritage, whilst one had to withdraw its application following reports of violence during…
