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Created in 1999, in the wake of the war in Kosovo, this programme brought together women activists from former Yugoslavia and Albania, sharing common values in terms of the need to democratise their societies, to struggle against nationalism and social partitioning, and to establish sustainable peace in the region (The Royaumont Declaration). On the basis of the urgencies they defined (The Mavrovo Declaration), these women have undertaken joint action transgressing borders.

Project partners
Albanian Human Rights Group, Center for cultural decontamination, Center for Women War Victims, Women’s Club Princess Ksenija, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Kosova Action for Civic Initiatives, Foundation Open Society Institute - Macedonia, Pro Femina, Urban-in, Zene Zenama.
Project realised with the financial support of the European Union, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the French Ministry for Parity and Professional Equality and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
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  THE CARAVAN
From 25 May to 10 June 2002, forty-seven women activists from the former Yugoslavia and Albania joined forces to cross the borders that had been established – really or imaginarily – between their countries and communities. Their objectives were to engage with one another's reality, to bring to light the truth about the recent wars and the question of responsibility, and to assist one another in their respective struggles against community pressures of every kind; against compartmentalisation. Their intention is to give these questions the maximum amount of publicity.

  More information (PDF documents )
  general conclusions on the Caravan

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 Balkan Women for Peace
Itineraries of crossborder activism

Bilingual French/English edition published by Transeuropéennes and its partners

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  The Women of the Twelve Borders

A documentary film by Claudine Bories
Co-produced by Transeuropéennes and Les Films d’Ici (France, 2003, 72mn).

 2003/2004 Activities : Becoming Visible in The Public Sphere, Disseminating Good Practices
80 public debates and local training sessions, summer universities and training workshops for young academics at the regional level on issues related to the Caravan.

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 Travelling exhibition of portraits of women activists

Photographs by Philippe Bazin

 Photographs by Philippe Bazin (Not available)
 Transeuropéennes No. 17
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