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 Human Rights of Migrants and Refugee Peoples 

09.00 – 09.45 Registration of participants

09.45 – 11.00

Welcome to Tribunal Launch

  • The City Council of Barcelona [Gerardo Pisarello )
  • Fundación Solidaritat UB  (Xavier Lopez)
  • Co-Convening organizations: Transnational Migrant Platform Europe (Jille Belisario), ECVC – Coordinadora Europea de Vía Campesina (Federico Pacheco), Comitato Verità e Giustizia per i Nuovi Desaparecidos (Flore Murard) , Sindicato Popular de vendedores ambulantes (Lamine Sarr), SOS Rosarno (Ibrahim Diabate), Institut de Drets Humans a Catalunya (David Bondia), Stop Mare Mortum (Jara Henar)

PART 1.   OPENING OF THE PPT – PROGRAMME OF WORK

11.00 – 12.15

  • Introduction of the PPT Session, Secretary General PPT, Gianni Tognoni
  • Introduction of the Indictment: Helena Maleno, Iker Barbero, Beatriz Plaza Escrivà

12.15 – 12.45 Break 

PART 2. TRANSVERSAL DIMENSIONS

12.45 – 13.15 Gender

  • Elements of the Indictment: Beatriz Plaza Escrivà (Plataforma Ongi Etorri Errefuxiatuak – Bienvenida a las Personas Migrantes y Refugiadas)
  • Testimonies: Mujeres Pa’lante(Bea Cantero), Caravana Feminista (Montse Benito),  EQUIS-MG (Fatou Secka), Reclaiming Migrant Domestic Workers Rights Campaign UK (Khadija Najlaoui)

13.15 – 13.25 Comments from the public

13.25 -13.50  Violations of the rights of minors and youth

  • Elements of the Indictment: Espacio del Inmigrante – Luciano Banchio Dalmasso (Espacio del Inmigrante- HIJOS- Barcelona)
  • Testimonies: Plataforma por los derechos de menores y jòvenes migrantes (Fatima Zouir), Migrant Filipino Youth Association (Nemel Reyes)

13.50 – 14.00: Comments from the participants

14.00 – 15.00: Lunch Break 

PART 3  SPECIFIC DIMENSIONS

15.00 – 15.40: The Root Causes

  • Elements of the Indictment: Brid Brennan (Transnational Institute)
  • Testimonies: Attac Maroc (Lucile Daumas), ECVC – Coordinadora Europea de Vía Campesina (Federico Pacheco),  Comunitat Palestina de Catalunya i Alkarama-Moviment de Dones Palestines (Zuhur Dalo)

15.40-15.50 Comments from the participants

15.50 – 16.20: Migration journeys, displacement and violation of rights

  • Elements of the Indictment: Helena Maleno (Caminando Fronteras)
  • Testimonies: Agenzia Habeshia (Don Mussie Zerai), UCFR (Baba Jawara), MDCD (Abdellatif Mortajine), Association La Terre pour tous – Túnez (Imed Soltani)

16.20 – 16.30: Comments from the participants

16.30 – 17.10: The Border regimes

  • Elements of the Indictment: Iker Barbero
  • Testimonies: SOS Rosarno (Ibrahim Diabate), IRIDIA-NOVACT-Fotomovimiento (Andrés Garcia Berrio), Tanquem els CIES Barcelona (Alberto Guerrero), Carovane Migranti (Giacomo Donadio)

17.10 – 17.20 Comments from the participants

17.20 – 17.50 Break

17.50 – 18.15  Fortress Europe – Politics of exclusion and racism towards migrant and refugee peoples

  • Elements of the Indictment: Norma Falconi (Sindillar y Papeles para todos)
  • Testimonies: La Via Campesina – La Via Campesina – SOC-SAT (Spitou Mendy), Platform of Filipino Migrant Organisations in Europe  (Nonoi Hacbang),  EMCEMO (Abdou Menebhi)

PART 4.   INTERVENTION OF THE TRIBUNAL JUDGES

18.15 – 19.30: Intervention of the Judges Panel

Members of the Judges: Bridget Anderson (UK), Leticia Gutiérrez (México), Jennifer Chiriga (Zimbabwe), Carlos Beristain (Euskal Herria)

Closing: Gianni Tognoni (Secretary General of the PPT)

PART 5.   CULTURAL EVENT

19.30 – 20.30

  • Rosa Sánchez
  • Las Amigas de Yoli
  • Nino Quaranta

Co-convenors

Transnational Institute (TNI), Transnational Migrant Platform Europe (TMP-E): Platform of Filipino Migrant organisations: Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers (CFMW), Geneva Forum for Filipino Concerns, Centro Filipino-Barcelona, Kasapi-Hellas, CFMW Italia; MDCD (Morrocan Platform in Europe): Euro-Mediterraan Centrum Migratie & Ontwikkeling (EMCEMO),  Al Maghreb, CODENAF, IDD, Khamsa, Migration et Developpement, Na’oura Social Development Cooperative-Ghana, Africa Roots Movement, Kromantse Foundation. RESPECT Network Europe.

ECVC – Coordinadora Europea de Vía Campesina, Associació Catalana per la integració d’homosexuals, bisexuals i transexuals inmigrants (ACATHI), Carovane Migranti, Comitato Verità e Giustizia per i Nuovi Desaparecidos, Entrepueblos/Entrepobles/Entrepobos/Herriarte,  Espacio del Inmigrante, Fotomovimiento, Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya, IRIDIA, Mujeres Pa’lante, NOVACT, Observatorio de Multinacionales en América Latina (OMAL), Sindicato Popular de vendedores ambulantes, Stop Mare Mortum, SOS Rosarno, SUDS, Tanquem els CIEs Barcelona, Tras la Manta, Unitat contra el feixisme i el racisme (UCFR), Ongi Etorri, Marcha Mundial de Mujeres.

Contact us: [email protected]

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