Category: Personal
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4 things interns and their supervisors should do
For many years, I have had the opportunity to supervise several ambitious young people during their internship in Brussels, in the field of European public affairs and communications. Showing them how to navigate the EU institutions, decipher Eurocrats and politicians jargon, and understand how to get your message across and through the EU bubble, has…
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What Angelina Jolie and I have in common
Angelina Jolie, Christina Applegate, Sharon Osbourn and I have in common that we all have the BRCA high-risk cancer gene. The American comedy-drama television series The Bold Type features Jane Sloan, a young woman in her 20s that is finding out about and coming to terms with her genetic heritage, undergoing a mastectomy and processing…
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How to make a relationship last
It is my longest relationship. I have had others, some for several years, a few months or just a weekend. I never promised I would stay, but I did, and it has been almost ten years now.
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How to Unblock Writer’s Block
For the last six months I haven’t written anything. During this thrilling, terrifying, exciting and nerve-wrecking journey I haven’t read any thought-provoking books nor have l listened to any mind-blowing podcasts or engaged in heated debates about inequality and injustice (as I used to). So I simply no longer knew what to write about. I…
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3 Things I learned from working with Human Rights
In 2010 I left my comfortable life in Sweden for a job opportunity in Belgium that I could not resist. I wanted to move out of my comfort zone and live abroad. I started working for the largest European network of civil society organizations, advocating for human rights. Before moving on, I would like to…
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Why you should care about the Muslim headscarf ban
Why should you care about the Muslim head scarf ban? One could argue that I shouldn’t bother as at it does not concern me. Some would say Muslims would not agree with my Jewish background, sexual orientation, or my lack of religious faith. I care because when we speak up against discrimination and exclusion of…
Annica Ryng 