The People’s Summit for a Global Pact of Solidarity with Migrants and Refugees, women and men, celebrated in Marrakech December 8th and 9th of 2018, hosted by La Via Campesina and its member organizations of the Middle East and North Africa (MeNa) Process, specifically Morocco’s National Federation of the Agricultural Sector (FNSA), along with the...
Author: Transnational Migrant Platform
Conclusions Peoples Global Action on International Migration, Development and Human Rights
The Global Compact on Migration took an important space during the debates at the Peoples Global Action on International Migration, Development and Human Rights during the Migration week in Marrakech (December 1-11, 2018). Both in the plenary sessions and the workshops. It illustrates the importance that an international framework for the protection and regulation of migration should have. It...
Update Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) Session on the Violations with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples
On July 8, 2017, the official opening of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Session on The violations with impunity of the Human Rights of Migrants and Refugee peoples (program) was carried out in the city of Barcelona. The call for action disseminated by TMP-E and TNI focuses its reasons on the necessity “to give visibility to the people of migrant persons...
Statement on the London Hearing “HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT” ON TRIAL
[siteorigin_widget class=”Vantage_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] The public hearings of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on “The Hostile environment” held in London on 3rd and 4th November 2018 form part of a process of investigation which has lasted more than two years and has produced texts and judgments for the opening session in Barcelona (7th- 8th July 2017) and from...
Members of Jury hearing in London
Bridget Anderson – Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship at Bristol University. She formerly held the post of Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Research Director at COMPAS in Oxford. She has a DPhil in Sociology and previous training in Philosophy and Modern Languages. She has explored the tension between labour market flexibilities and citizenship rights,...
The Permanent People’s Tribunal: Its role in the people’s indictment of the ‘hostile environment’
The Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) approach to uncovering the inconvenient truths that governments and other elites don’t want you to know about has been around since the days of the war in Vietnam. In 1979 the tribunal took its present permanent form to provide a structure supporting the complaints of people denied the protection of...
Crimes against humanity at European borders: Conclusion of the Hearing of Barcelona of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal on Sites without Rights
Barcelona, July 12, 2018. – The Third Hearing of the Session of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) on the violation with impunity of the human rights of migrants and refugees Peoples, took place on June 29, 30 and 1 of July in Barcelona. After examining cases of human rights violations in the axis of Gender...
Gianni Tognoni (Italia) Doctor of medicine and surgery, since 1969 he has undertaken basic, clinical, epidemiological and public health research in some of the most critical fields of medicine, such as cardiology, intensive therapy, neurology, psychiatry and oncology, publishing results in more than 600 articles in the most prestigious international journals and being responsible for...
Jurors
Bridget Anderson (UK) Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Research Director at COMPAS. She has a DPhil in Sociology and previous training in Philosophy and Modern Languages. She has explored the tension between labour market flexibilities and citizenship rights, and pioneered an understanding of the functions of immigration in key labour market...
Date and Place Hearing in London
Date: 3-4 November 2018 Place in London: Friends House, 173 – 177 Euston Road, NW1 2 BJ Euston, London To get here please click Please do not forget to support our call for a hearing in London or submit your story as evidence for the charges that we are holding the UK government accountable for.