The oppressed becoming the oppressor
Navigating a world of ‘you do not belong here.’
|2019.08.27
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I have made it my mission to bust the myth that the Netherlands is an open-minded and tolerant country.
As an ethnic Albanian, I am given the position of power in Kosovo to discriminate against other ethnic groups by default.
We have to recognize the ways in which we have failed minority groups.
Kosovare Duraku
Kosovare Duraku has previously interned for a human rights organization in Sydney, Australia and has also worked for the International Debate Education Association in Utrecht, Netherlands. She holds an LLM in Global Criminal Law from the University of Groningen where she wrote her thesis on Australia’s immigration policies and she is currently finishing up her second LLM in International Human Rights law at the same university.
This story was originally written in English.