Factual Program and Literature

The festival will host tens of guests from around the world. More information about the program in Finnish.

Back to Iran: Azar Mahloujian (IRN)

Iranian Writer Azar Mahloujian fled to Sweden as a political refugee in 1982 and has been living in Stockholm ever since.

CANCELLED:The Tuareg Plight in Libya (LBA)

Tuareg Activist Akli Sheika Bessadah talks about the situation and living conditions of the Tuareg in Libya and its neighbouring countries.

Decent Work or Race to the Bottom?

Decent work and living wages, freedom of association and a right to collective bargaining.

Disabled Children’s Rights to Education

Several barriers prevent disabled children from participating in society. For example, the majority of the world’s disabled children and youth do not receive education.

Fear and Forgiveness: The Aftermath of Massacre (IND)

Harsh Mander is a well-known Indian Social Activist and Writer.

Heidi Hautala Interviews a Chinese Falun Gong Practitioner (CHN)

Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) is a Chinese qigong practice that became popular in the 1990s, as nearly 100 million people began to practice it in China.

Indu Netam: Indigenous Adivasi Woman from Central India

Indu Netam is an indigenous Gond Adivasi woman from the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, India, and the head of the Adivasi women’s organization Adwasi Samta Manch.

Listening to Indian Grasshoppers: Notes on Democracy (IND)

Indian Social Activist and Writer Harsh Mander presents Listening to Grasshoppers, a new book by world-renowned Indian Author Arundhati Roy, published this spring in Finnish (Into).

Love and Revolution: Ghada Abdel Aal (EGY)

Ghada Abdel Aal is a 32-year old Egyptian Blogger, Writer, Screenwriter and Columnist.

Producer Guest of the Finnish World Shops (IND)

Finnish Association of World Shops introduces Benjamin Sundarkumar from Palam Rural Centre in South to the World Village audience.

Reality of Madagascar's Environment in Images

Diverse, unique, endangered. Madagascar's environment is interpreted in many ways.

Save & Protect the Planet – Sustainable Development in Photos

Banco Espírito Santo Angola and World Press Photo produced an exhibition on sustainable development for a UNESCO’s summit in 2009.

Tales from the Zimbabwean Township: Christopher Mlalazi (ZMB)

Christopher Mlalazi is one of the most promising younger writers, poets and playwrights in Zimbabwe.

UN Youth Champion Monique Coleman: Our Year, Our Voice (USA)

UN Youth Champion and High School Musical star Monique Coleman visits World Village Festival during her world tour.

Voluntary Paths to San Juan Copala by Triquis, Jyri and Bety (MEX)

Bibiana Martínez de Jesús, a young indigenous Triqui woman from San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, tells about her community's voluntary activity for its legal rights to indigenous autonomy in multicultural Mexico.

Writing out of Exile: Azar Mahloujian (IRN)

Finnish PEN Chairman Jarkko Tontti interviews Iranian Writer Azar Mahloujian. She fled to Sweden as a political refugee in 1982 and has been living in Stockholm ever since.

Youth Demanding Democracy

Youths have been on the frontline demanding democracy in North Africa and the Arab countries, and also had a key role in Nepal’s uprising in 2008.