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Krigsbarnen som kom till Sverige efter första världskriget är en ofta bortglömd del av vår gemensamma historia. Journalisten och författaren Milena Bergquist har efterforskat i arkiv och sin egen familjehistoria för att kunna berätta om deras öde i boken Alla dessa barn.

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Programledare: Lisa Wall
Producent: Felicia Frithiof

Have you ever watched a humanitarian crisis unfolding on the news and witnessed the subsequent failure of leaders to lead, and thought to yourself, "I wish I could get some friends together and just do something to make this better?" 

That's what Milena Zajović and a few of her friends in Croatia did when the largest refugee crisis to hit Europe since World War 2 came to their borders in the Summer of 2015. That initial impulse lead to the creation of Are You Syrious?, a nonprofit that focuses on field work, integration, and advocacy for refugees in the Balkans and Southern Europe. Lately a lot of their work has focussed on reporting on the so-called "push backs" that have seen Croatian authorities playing the role of border enforcers for the European Union. These measures have been accompanied by widespread reports of violence and other human rights abuses and campaigns by various governments to criminalize the work of human rights defenders, a worrying trend that Latitude Adjustment covered in our previous episode about Malta as well. 

Be sure to subscribe to the Are you Syrious Daily Digest, a resource that's become reference material for foreign embassies, aid workers, and journalists, and which provides up to the minute reporting for and about refugees in Europe and across the Middle East. 

Natasha Helfer Parker interviews Milena Garcia Skollar, member of the Mormon Mental Health Association, about preventing sexual abuse from a parenting perspective, educating kids, treatment options, etc. especially in light of the many conversations currently taking place in the Mormon church in regards to consent, sexual assault, and how the church has historically handled these types of situations.