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...
Category: Permanent Peoples Tribunal
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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...
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Program Launch
[siteorigin_widget class=”WP_Widget_Media_Image”][/siteorigin_widget] Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) Launching Session on the Violations with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples Place: Aula Magna de la Univesitat de Barcelona (UB), Edifici històric Pl. Universitat, Gran Via Les Corts Catalanes, 585, Barcelona, Spain Date: Saturday July 8, 2017 Time: 9.00 – 20.00 Program Launching PPT Session on...
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Background Note on the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT)
The Permanent Peoples Tribunal was established in 1979, taking the Declaration of Algiers on the Rights of Peoples as a main reference, and it has since held 40 Sessions whose results and judgements are are available here. The PPT is an Opinion Tribunal – which acts independently of States and responds to the requests of...
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Peoples Opening Borders and Together Building Solidarity
Peoples Opening Borders and Together Building Solidarity (Spanish below) July 14, 2017 We, as organisations involved (as Co-Convenors of) in the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) on the Violations with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples launched in Barcelona on July 8th, greet the Caravana Abriendo Fronteras A Melilla((https://abriendofronteras.net/) , (Caravan Opening...