One Voice Brighton and Hove, a coalition of faith, cultural, LGBT and Black and Minority Ethnic communities in the city, organised a public event to mark 21st May, the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, popularly known as the “Diversity Day”. The event took place at the Brighton Open Market and attended…
Long term partners Euro-Mernet, Brighton and Hove Refugee Radio, and Community Base will be organising yet another one of their increasingly popular public event to mark the Refugee Week and the World Refugee Day. The event will take place on Thursday, 18th June, from 6.30pm to 9.30pm, with the participation of a diversity of community…
Radio Euro-Mernet: Local voice of the global communities and global voice of the local communities… This year’s new season weekly radio shows of Radio Euro-Mernet has commenced on May Day. Having been launched by a small team of volunteers in November 2010, a series of hourly radio shows have been being streamed live online every…
During the quarterly meeting of the Brighton and Hove Refugee & Migrant Forum in late April, Euro-Mernet team became one of the organisations calling for collective action in reaching out the citywide communities to explain the recent changes in the National Health Service (NHS) free healthcare eligibility. Following a lively discussion on the recent comprehensive…
Euro-Mernet has joined forces with the organisers of the Crossing the Teas project when they formally launched it last year. The core project team were inspired by the cultural heritage project notes left behind by the late artist and community worker Irene Mensah (1963-2013) who had wished to materialise a project to highlight the cultural…
A team of interns from Euro-Mernet have attended a bread-making workshop, as part of the Breaking the Bread project, led by the Brighton-based art and cultural activities organisation Strike A Light, in collaboration with creative producer Natasha Padbury. The bread making workshop took part at Brighton Open Market near London Road. It brought together…
By Viola Bruttomesso On the first weekend of August, Brighton celebrated Pride, its renowned Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) festive event. The celebrations started with a huge Parade across the city and a huge party in Preston Park on 2nd August, and a village festival in Kemptown area that lasted until midnight following day.…
By Viola Bruttomesso, with additional research by Lucia Florian The United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punishing defines trafficking of persons as follows: Trafficking in Persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud,…
On Thursday 19th of June, Euro-Mernet organised an evening event in Brighton (U.K.) to mark the Refugee Week. The event took place at the popular venue Community Base and it was supported by the Refugee Radio and the Community Base. The event was attended by the members of the diverse communities from across Brighton and…
The Euro-Mernet team took part in a rally outside Hove Town Hall against a proposed 10 % cut to the voluntary and community sector. The issue of community grants was on the Brighton and Hove City council’s budget discussion agenda since last year. The peaceful demonstration and continuous hard work by the campaigning organisations and…
