The political education working group regularly conducts workshops and educational days at schools on the subject of flight and asylum. We obtain our materials from educational offers and institutions of political education, but also from state institutions such as the German Read more…
We have not had a project in Serbia or anywhere else in the Western Balkans for about 10 months now. After handing over the shower system and the distribution of non-food items (NFIs) to Escuela con Alma in July 2018, Read more…
Rigardu e.V. was active for almost 1.5 years in Subotica and at times Šid on the Serbian-Hungarian or Serbian-Croatian border. In July 2018, we handed over the shower system that we set up there and the distribution of so-called non-food Read more…
After spending the summer in Thessaloniki to distribute previously collected donations for food and hygiene packages, I wanted to provide humanitarian aid for refugees back in Germany during the semester. From there on the idea developed to organize a donation Read more…
What we have hardly reported on so far is our political training work. Since the foundation of our association, and before, when we were still called “Voluntiere”, it has always been our concern not only to support fleeing people, but Read more…
We’re looking back at our approaches to bring Border Violence Monitoring to the European Parliament: In June 2018, a request was submitted by Dietmar Köster (MoP, S&D) in a meeting of the Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the Read more…
We met Bashir in Bihać and he asked us to publish this video on our blog together with the report. The unconscious young man is recovering by now. The violence by the Croatian police is not an isolated case, but Read more…
On www.borderviolence.eu Rigardu documents illegal deportations and police violence against refugees at the EU’s external borders in more than 200 cases. I am firmly convinced that the perpetrators in Croatia are not unprofessional, violent policemen. Instead, it is obviously an Read more…
Rigardu is no longer needed in Serbia, and so we have decided to end our humanitarian project in Subotica. The suitcases are already packed, the flat emptied and the transporter with some last volunteers and equipment on the way to Read more…
Action – Reaction – Effect… This is our hope for our commitment to the “Border Violence” project. Since the spring of 2017, we have been trying to document as many cases of human rights violations at the EU’s external borders Read more…