29th, 30th June, 1st July 2018
Auditori Eduard Toldrà, Conservatori Municipal de Música (Bruc 110-112, Barcelona)

 

Presentation

In Europe, migrant and refugees have lived through the various stages of the building of Fortress Europe. They have seen Europe's policy of exclusion being constructed year after year – a policy that has resulted in a sweeping rollback of people's human rights; the encampments, forcible detention and deportation; and criminalisation at the militarised southern and eastern borders of Europe. Inspired by solidarity between migrants, refugees and other social movements towards equality and inclusive society, since 2017 a large number of migrants organizations and civil society networks active in the defence of human rights in Europe, called on the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT), with the aim to give clear visibility to the migrant and refugee peoples from all backgrounds as subjects of fundamental human rights; to identify and judge the chain of co-responsibility in the violation of those rights experienced throughout the whole migratory journey and to urgently identify and promote appropriate mechanisms for access to justice. The PPT responded and opened the Permanent Peoples Tribunal Session on the Violations of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples in July 2017 in Barcelona. Since then, Hearings have been held in Palermo (December 2017) and Paris (January 2018). The Tribunal returns again to Barcelona for a new Hearing on “Sites without rights”, focusing on: Southern Border, Gender and Diversity, Minors and Youth, on June 29, 30 and July 1.

 

 

 

Co-Convenors: Transnational Migrant Platform Europe (TMP-E), Centro Filipino-Barcelona, RESPECT Network Europe; ECVC ‑ Coordinadora Europea de Vía Campesina; Associació Catalana per la integració d’homosexuals, bisexuals i transexuals inmigrants (ACATHI); Carovane Migranti; Centre Delàs, Comitato Verità e Giustizia per i Nuovi Desaparecidos; Entrepueblos/Entrepobles/Entrepobos; No Muri No Recinti, Espacio del Inmigrante; Fotomovimiento; Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya; IRIDIA; Jo Sí Sanitat Universal, Mujeres Pa’lante; NOVACT; Observatorio de Multinacionales en América Latina (OMAL); Sindicato Popular de vendedores ambulantes; Stop Mare Mortum; SOS Racismo, SUDS; Tanquem els CIEs Barcelona; Transnational Institute (TNI); Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos Andalucía; Alianza por la Solidaridad; Tras la Manta; Unitat contra el feixisme i el racisme (UCFR), Taula de defensa dels drets de les treballadores de la llar, la neteja i les cures, Womens Link.

 

Programme

Friday 29th June (19h ‑ 21h)

Welcome from the City Council of Barcelona

Honourable Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau (to be confirmed)

Welcome from Convenors

Ms. Jille Belisario, Transnational Migrant Platform - Europe

Mr. Federico Pacheco, La Vía Campesina - Europe

Intervention from Casa Nostra Casa Vostra

Local authorities’ initiatives

Ms. M. Dolores López Fernández, Commissioner of Immigration, Interculturality and Diversity, Barcelona City Council

Intervention of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal

Mr Gianni Tognoni, General Secretary of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal

Saturday 30th June

9.00 ‑ 9.45	Register of Participants
10.00 – 11.00	Introduction of the Tribunal Mr. Gianni Tognoni, General Secretary of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal, Mr. Juan Hernández Zubizarreta and Ms. Beatriz Plaza
GENDER AND DIVERSITY AXIS Organisations presenting the axis: Mujeres migrantes diversas, ACATHI, Stop Maremortum, Yo sí sanidad universal/PASUCAT, No muri No recinti, Women’s Link, Casa Delle Donne, Non Una di Meno Genova, APDHA, KASAPI & MELISSA-Grecia, Waling-Waling Campaign for Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers-UK, Women in Exile, Centro Filipino de Barcelona, Mujeres pa'lante, Alianza contra la Pobreza Energética, Unitat Contra el Feixsme i el Racisme (UCFR) With the support of: Ms. Carmen Miguel Juan and Ms. Teresa Palomo 11.00 ‑ 14.00 Axis on Gender and Diversity. Part 1   Presentation Ms. Carmen Miguel Juan   Violence in transit   Ventimiglia (Ms. Ariela Lacometti, Non Una di Meno Genova)   Women migrants from Eritrea (Ms. Ribka Sibbatu) 11.30 ‑ 12.00 Break   Women migrants from Nigeria (Ms. Giulia Fiordelli)   Women in transit to Greece (Stop Maremortum)   Refugee women forced to work in the camps (Ms. Carolina García, Women in Exile)   Testimony (Ms. Elisabeth Ngari) Refugee Women in Greece (Ms. Debbie Valencia and Ms.Ida Iva Sadedini, KASAPI, MELISSA-Greece)   Trafficking of women for sexual exploitation and custody of minors   Trafficking and forced separation from children (Ms. Estefanny Molina, Women’s Link)   Questions of the Jurors   Work violence & Struggles   Cross-border Workers (“porteadoras”) (Ms. Cristina Fuentes, APDHA) Domestic workers and work in the care sector (Mujeres migrantes diversas, Centro Filipino de Barcelona, Migrant Domestic Workers-UK-Angie Garcia), Mujeres pa’lante)   workers in the strawberry sector in Huelva (Ms. Teresa Palomo)   Questions of the Jurors 14.00 ‑ 15.00 Lunch (catering by local migrant organisations) 15.00 – 16.30 Axis on Gender and Diversity. Part 2   Social rights   Health and reproductive rights (Yo Sí Sanitat Univesal, PASUCAT)   Housing and energy poverty (Ms. Cecilia Carrillo, Alianza contra la Pobreza Energética, and Ms. Sandra Casanova)   Questions of the Jurors   Symbolic violence   Gender Islamophobia (Ms. Fatiha Al Mouali , UCFR)   LGTBI migrant people (Mr. Rodrigo Araneda (ACATHI)   Questions of the Jurors
16.30 – 16.45	Break
AXIS ON MINORS AND YOUTH Organisations presenting the axis: Espacio del Inmigrante, Centro Filipino de Barcelona Cases on unaccompanied minors in Barcelona.
16.45 – 17.45	Minors and Youth
	Presentation Ms. Raquel Prado
	Demands (Ms. Natalia Caicedo, Espacio del Inmigrante)
	Testimonies
	Questions of the Jurors

Sunday 1st July

SOUTHERN BORDER AXIS

Organisations presenting the axis: NOVACT, IRIDIA, Sindicato Popular de Vendedores Ambulantes, Alianza por la Solidaridad, Observatori DESC, Fotomovimiento, Collectif Des Femmes Migrantes Au Maroc – COFMIMA, Women’s Link, SOS Racisme, Centre Delàs, Tanquem els CIEs, Alianza por la Solidaridad, APDHA.

10.00 ‑ 11.30	Southern Border Axis. Part 1. Presentation NOVACT and Fotomovimiento Morocco (Ms. Jara Henar, Alianza por la Solidaridad) Testimonies (Collectif des Femmes Migrantes au Maroc, por video) Sea border and Fence (Ms. Ana Rosado, APHDA) Isla Mar Case (Ms. Estefanny Molina, Women’s Link) Testimony (Mr. Sani Ladan, ELIN)
	Questions of the Jurors
11.30 ‑ 12.00	Break
12.00 ‑ 14.00	Southern Border Axis. Part 2.
	Tarajal case (Mr. Marco Aparicio, Observatori DESC)
	Arrival and 72 hours (IRIDIA)
	Detention Centres and express deportations (Tanquem el CIE)
	Testimony (Mr. Elhadj Thierno Fata Boye)
	Institutional racism and ethnic profiling (SOS Racisme)
	Testimony (Sindicato Popular de Vendedores Ambulantes)
	Participation of private actors (transnational corporations and other military and security companies) (Ms. María Soler, NOVACT)
	INDRA case (Mr. Jordi Calvo (Centre Delàs)
	Questions of the Jurors
14.00 ‑ 15.30	Lunch (catering by local migrant organisations)
15.30 – 16.45	Intervention of the Jurors of the Tribunal
16.45 ‑ 17.00	Comments to the hearing from Civil Rights perspective Mr. Jaume Asens, Third Deputy Mayor, Manager’s Office of the Area of Citizen Rights, Culture, Participation and Transparency Barcelona City Council
17.00 ‑ 17.15	Closure Mr. Gianni Tognoni, General Secretary of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal

Facilitators of the Hearing

Ms. Iolanda Fresnillo (Cooperativa Ekona), Mr Braulio Alfonso Moro (France Amérique Latine) and Mr David Bondia (Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya).