culture
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2 December Dec 2016 1156 02 December 2016 Are we ready for Universal Basic Income?
Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposals are gaining in popularity across the political spectrum. However most people don’t fully understand what a basic income is or how it would work. Vita International asked to James Boyce of the PERI, the Political Economic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts what UBI really means.
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4 November Nov 2016 1025 04 November 2016 Ed Mayo: Why we need to integrate ethics in business
Only ethics has the power to bring us together. Vita International asked Ed Mayo, secretary general of Co-operatives UK, what ethics really means and how we can build a culture that insists on putting societal welfare ahead of profits.
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6 September Sep 2016 1321 06 September 2016 Bringing gender equality to Europe
Joanna Maycock, Secretary General of the European Women's Lobby (EWL), talks to Vita International about feminisms, Beyoncé and why compliance and austerity are the worst enemies of gender equality
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5 July Jul 2016 1200 05 July 2016 Rethinking refugee camps
With the refugee crisis still ongoing, Vita International spoke to Veronica Lai, a student in Science of Architecture and Planning program at the Faculty of Architecture of Alghero, under the supervision of Prof. Paola Rizzi, currently working on her research for Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan about how emergency architecture and refugee camp design can help provide refugees with a space in which they can “find a sense of security, of belonging, and where their human dignity is fully respected.”
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7 June Jun 2016 1117 07 June 2016 Violence, rape, and forced marriage: inside the lives of female refugees
"I've been a refugee since the day I was born" begins Mina Jaf, female refugee rights activist and this year's Women Refugee Commission Voice of Courage 2016 award winner. Speaking to Vita International, she describes what she saw inside the closed government camps in Greece. Gender based violence, forced marriages, rape, and child kidnapping. "It's so much worse now than when I was a child." Now she is starting her own NGO called Women Refugee Route, which focuses on providing female interpreters for women on the migration route. "I saw it first with my mother, and then with the thousands of women I met in Iraq and Greece that it would be easier for them to explain themselves in their own language," she says.
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11 March Mar 2016 0910 11 March 2016 Human, world-saving love
The great French photographer and director Yann Arthus-Bertrand has presented in Milan his latest film, “Human”, an extraordinary portrait of humanity, a documentary that wonders about the meaning of life and of being human through the voice of common people from all over the world.
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14 December Dec 2015 1135 14 December 2015 Art in motion
Hope Box is a collective mobile art project, based on encounters with local people and artists. Started in 1991 by Dutch artist Rienke Enghardt it has so far engaged more than 150 artists from about 30 countries around the world. Vita International has met Rienke Enghardt in the Hope Box Home on the NDSM wharf in Amsterdam.
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4 December Dec 2015 1500 04 December 2015 Granby Workshop builds on DIY culture in Liverpool
Granby Workshop is a new social enterprise by Assemble, the first design collective shortlisted for the Turner Prize, UK's most important art award. This year the prize will be held in Glasgow and the winner will be announced on 7 December, 2015. Vita International has met Lewis Jones, Assemble's co-founder.
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11 November Nov 2015 0753 11 November 2015 First European restaurant that serves surplus food
It is called Rub & Stub, and it is in Copenhagen. It is a restaurant where surplus food becomes a dish. In the kitchen, two chefs prepare different menus based on the food that is donated by suppliers. Rub & Stub is a project promoted by the Danish Refugee Council.
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1 November Nov 2015 0924 01 November 2015 Exclusive interview with Matteo Renzi: “Africa is a priority of the Italian foreign policy”
“Africa is the greatest opportunity for us. Unfortunately, we are victims of decades of negligence and of a sometimes ideological approach to the African continent. On the contrary, I am still convinced that in the next twenty years, Africa will be at the origin of a great number of economic phenomena,” said the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in an exclusive interview for the news website Afronline.org and its African media partners.