Amnesty International, on the occasion of World Refugee Day 2024 on 20 June, organised, in collaboration with CGIL Piacenza and Cinemaniaci, a series of events at the CGIL Chamber of Labor in Piacenza, in Via 24 Maggio 18. “An important moment of reflection and discussion on the condition of migrant people in Italy and Europe, whose human rights are often violated by a Europe that builds walls rather than welcoming and externalizes borders and procedures, stripping itself of any responsibility in the matter” explain the organizers.
Events in Piacenza for World Refugee Day 2024
Wednesday 19 June, at 8.30 pmthere will be a screening of the documentary “Trieste is beautiful at night”, by Andrea Segre, Stefano Collizzolli and Matteo Calore, distributed by ZaLab Film and with the patronage of Amnesty International Italia, a film that gives voice to refugees and migrants, mainly Asian, who arrive at the border between Italy and Slovenia after having traveled the infamous “Balkan route”;
Friday 21 June, at 6.00 pm, the presentation of the book “Chiusiinterno. Confinement camps in 21st century Europe”, which will feature the intervention of Paolo Pignocchi of the European Coordination Amnesty International Italy, called to mediate, of Michela Cucchettilawyer expert in migrants’ rights, by Michele Rossidirector of the Immigration, Asylum and International Cooperation Center of Parma and Roberto Magniby Fiorenzuola Oltre i Confini, a book that aims to answer crucial questions through an in-depth investigation of European policies on asylum and immigration.
The target
These are significant events with which the humanitarian organization wants not only to reflect and make citizens reflect on the condition of migrant people, constantly stripped of their dignity and rights, but also to reiterate its commitment to supporting and protecting people’s rights migrants, asking that policies be adopted aimed at safeguarding those seeking safety, as well as fair policies based on the sharing of responsibilities, on human rights, on global security and that combat all forms of exploitation, segregation and discrimination.
The cancellation of the right to asylum, the rejections at the external borders of the European Union, the “readmissions” at the internal borders… are still illegitimate and systematic practices today, which the European Union would like to make become the “new normality”, a ” this which Amnesty International firmly opposes and which should be opposed by all those people who want Europe to stop “dying at its borders” and to adopt policies of rejection of migrants which reduce them to non-persons.
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