The Permanent Peoples Tribunal on the Violations of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples launched in Barcelona on July 7-8, 2017 was co-convened by more than 30 migrant and refugee organisations and endorsed by 100 movements, networks and organisations. The preparation process included two preparatory meetings, the setting up of a PPT Working...
Author: Transnational Migrant Platform
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Contact info
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Convenors
The Convenors of this PPT Session are: Transnational Migrant Platform Europe (TMP-E) Platform of Filipino Migrant organisations in Europe (Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers (CFMW), Geneva Forum for Filipino Concerns, Centro Filipino-Barcelona, Kasapi-Hellas) MDCD (Morrocan Platform in Europe) ( Euro-Mediterraan Centrum Migratie & Ontwikkeling (EMCEMO), Al Maghreb, CODENAF, IDD, Khamsa, Migration et Developpement, Na’oura) Social Development...
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International Call for the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) PPT Session On the Violations with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples
To endorse please see below Migrants and refugees over decades have contributed enormously to the economic and political development of Europe as well as to their countries of origin. Some have undertaken hunger strikes for basic rights such as family reunion and led struggles against detention and deportation. Many today affirm their human rights in...
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Transversal Gender and Sexual Diversity
The danger of the unique story. Transversalising the focus of gender and sexual diversity. Rapporteur: Beatriz Plaza Escrivà Social researcher specialising in Internationalism – Feminism, and activist on the platform Ongi Etorri Errefuxiatuak/Welcome to migrants and refugees. “The unique story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are fake but that...
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Pillar 4 Fortress Europe
European Union policy on asylum and immigration. The construction of an excluding Europe. Rapporteur: Patricia Bárcena García, Lawyer By reviewing the legal instruments that the EU has been approving over the last few years we can explain why people have to risk their lives to reach Europe. There are no other options. The Schengen Agreements[51] were the first step...
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Pillar 3 Border Regime Europe
A contemporary reading of the border system in europe: an inhumane cost Rapporteur: Iker Barbero González[29] Lecturer at the University of the Basque Country and the main researcher of the IUSFUNDIE.EU (EHU-US 20/15) Project. A Bleak (border) Panorama. An entry in the blog “Fortress Europe”, written by the Italian activist Gabriele Del Grande, is entitled...
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Pillar 2 Hazardous and Dangerous journeys of transit
Pillar 2 Hazardous and Dangerous journeys of transit Building war from the countries of origin to the gates of Europe Rapporteur: Helena Maleno Garzón Researcher specialising in migrations and trafficking in human beings, journalist and activist in the group Caminando Fronteras (Walking Borders). The “non-law” spaces that are built on European borders allow, among other...
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Pillar 1 Causes Forced Displacement
Rapporteur: Juan Hernández Zubizarreta Lecturer at the University of the Basque Country and researcher at the Observatory of Multinationals in Latin America (OMAL) A terminological clarification The concept of refugee and the legal framework set out in the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) and its 1967 Protocol have obvious shortcomings. Economic migration...
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Indictment
Foreword by the convening organisations Since last December, the Transnational Migrant Platform Europe (TMP-E), Centro Filipino, the Associació Catalana per la integració d’homosexuals, bisexuals i transexuals inmigrants (ACATHII) and the Transnational Institute have been busy with the process to convene the PERMANENT PEOPLES’ TRIBUNAL (hereafter the PPT) to give clear visibility to the people of migrant persons...