Freedom Lecture: Tineke Ceelen

Tineke Ceelen has been the director of Stichting Vluchteling for more than twenty years. In her Freedom Lecture, Ceelen discusses the freedom that fleeing people lose, the violence they encounter and what it means that no one wants them.

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About Tineke Ceelen
Tineke Ceelen (1963) has been the director of Stichting Vluchteling for more than twenty years. Since 1993, she has been committed to humanitarian aid. In 2020, she was rewarded for this with a medal and the appointment as Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. By regularly talking about individual refugees in the media, she gives this group a voice. To see with her own eyes what the situation is like in countries that are not rich and stable, Ceelen regularly travels to the crisis areas where Stichting Vluchteling provides aid. In her Freedom Lecture, Tineke discusses the freedom that fleeing people lose, the violence they encounter and what it means that no one wants them.

About the host
Mirka Antolović-Tipuric, born in 1981 in Bosnia, is director of Tûmba, the reporting point and knowledge centre for discrimination and diversity in Friesland. She is also a municipal councillor for the PvdA in the municipal council of Leeuwarden. In 1992 she fled with her family and at the end of 1993 she came to the Netherlands because of the Bosnian war. Her personal story is part of the exhibition Freedom Now in the Fries Verzetsmuseum.