Summary of
news in the area 'Cultures, Migration and International
Cooperation'
December 2007
Editorial
A culture
cannot be described by its folklore.
What really
describes a culture is its ideal of happiness; its future aspirations present
on myths and beliefs; the image of a shared life of happiness and welfare; a
moral and a type of relation among its people; certain values, certain
behaviour principles and the way to visualise these ideals.
Deep inside a
culture is always its spiritual, holy side. All culture feeds on spirituality
and this defines it and directs it. Are the freedom of believes and the
coexistence of cultures possible?
Of course, it is not only a real possibility but also an experience already
lived in many moments of our history when many cultures have mixed together on
a civilisation project supporting improvement principles.
We observe
different ways of mixing with other cultures corresponding to different
mental locations distributed on 4 attitudes:
1- Negation of
other cultures: where a culture is considered as the final model of the human
evolution and sees the others as non-developped. It is an imperialist and
globalised attitude imposing its ideas and beliefs on others. It
associates the progress to the disappearance of this backwardness that it wants
to impose on its dominant culture.
2- the Tolerance of
other cultures: where a culture feels superior to the others, but it does not
want the others to disappear but makes an effort to live with the different
things always keeping distance and its differentiation.
3- The Coexistence
among cultures: here there is no culture superior to another. They share a
common space and life. There is a complementary view of the differences and
although the own identity is preserved, in the social practice cultures are
mixed together.
4- The Integration among cultures: cultures
mix together and have reciprocal influence on each other, choosing each
other's elements and enriching them at the same time. There is a common project
requiring a contribution of the best elements of each region and the
obtained result is a new culture synthesised on a different level. On this
project others are welcomed rather than "tolerated". We will not live
with freedom of ideas and beliefs only because we wish to do so or because it
is a positive value. We will live on coexistence and freedom when we finally
face with decision a common project of welfare including all cultures
and when we work with cultures' contribution. Today this project is the
building of the Universal Human Nation.
We invite you to join European Humanist Forum
through the thematic area ‘Cultures, Migration and International Cooperation’,
which is aimed for the following objectives:
·
Acting as a permanent meeting point between organizations and people working on
these subjects.
·
Collecting experiences and information on immigration and integration of
Cultures.
·
Making and spreading awareness materials and setting a position against
problems.
·
Promoting joint actions.
Contact: Reto Thumiger info@afroaid.net or Ricardo Arias ricardoarias2@gmail.com
09.11.2007
1-
The parish church turns into a mosque every Friday
The
church of Northern Italy turns every Friday into a mosque. A parish priest came
up with this idea.
Mr.
Aldo Danieli, parish priest of Poderno di Ponzano
According
to the parish priest, “in this way the wall of uncomprehension and intolerance
will be demolished”. In the village near Treviso live 11,400 people. Among
these, around 650 are immigrants, who come mostly from northern
Source:
www.tagi.ch
24.11.2007
2- The widest study of immigration
On the 24th of November
It is the widest comparison ever made. It
covers twenty million non-European emigrants who live and work under legal
circumstances in the European Union.
Every European resident should beneficiate
from the same opportunities. Obviously, the only effort of the governments
cannot solve all integration problems, because the collaboration of everyone is
required. This project is co-financed by the European Community to prepare
common integration actions with common aims of freedom, security and justice.
MIPEX. has worked with 140 indexes, with 6
main postulates. These were the access to a job, the political participation,
the medium term residence, access to nationality, the anti-discrimination and
the family reunification....On the 20th November
Various debates take place in Europe from
the beginning of November until the 30th of March.
Source:http://www.integrationindex.eu
20.10.2007
3- The French school and immigrants
without legal documents
Ibrahim is 21 years old and is currently
studying electricity with a special focus on Air Conditioning in the Institute
of Technical Education of Thoiry sur Marne (Department
The Association also has an international
solidarity network.
This friday, November de 9th, the
association announced that Ibrahim was spelled from the Institute. His
collegues did in response send a letter of complaint to the President of the
Republic.
Last news are from the 30th of October.
After beeing emprisonned for 5 days, ibrahim managed to postpon his military service
for 3 months thanks to his french academic certificate. The association
continues pleading and asking everybody for help to get Ibrahim a french visa
through the Ministry.
Source: http://www.educationsansfrontieres.org/
4- Supermarket giant Sainsbury's says immigrants
make better workers.
Immigrant workers have a
"superior" work ethic to British employees, according to the
supermarket giant Sainsbury's. The company said it found immigrants to be more
flexible and happier with their terms and conditions in employment. It added
that employing migrant workers in its stores often had a positive impact on the
domestic staff. Sainsbury's was giving evidence to a House of Lords inquiry
into the impact of immigration. In a written submission, it said that it had
greatly increased the number of immigrants it employed over the past two years
and would likely continue to do so in future.
"In the long term, this could have a positive effect on
their domestic colleagues. In some areas we have definitely seen a positive
shift in culture where migrant workers have been introduced, which has led to a
more diverse workforce fostering a more engaged group of workers."
Sainsbury's said hiring migrant workers had forced it to be
flexible in its working patterns and language barriers posed potential problems
regarding health and safety. It said: "Where we have engaged skilled
workers (HGV drivers from
The National Institute of Economic and
Social Research said that 382,000 eastern Europeans had moved to the UK since
their countries joined the European Union in 2004.
On Saturday figures from the House of
Commons library disclosed that 54 per cent of new jobs in Britain were taken by
foreigners between 1997 and 2006.
A survey also revealed that housebuyers believed
that immigrants were one of the main causes for high house prices in Britain.
More than one in five told in www. propertyfinder.com that the best way to
tackle soaring house prices would be to control immigration.
Source:http://www.haroldschiffman.org
6-11-2007
5- The right wing demands Prodi the expulsion
of 250,000 Rumanian immigrants
E. G. - Rome -
The Italian conservative opposition
capitalizes the "Rumanian crisis". The punishment is hard for foreign
people who have commited an offence or who lack supplies.
The president of the party "Alianza
Nacional" and former minister of Foreign Affairs Gianfranco Fini affirms
"250,000 people" should be expelled from Italy. Moreover,
Silvio Berlusconi, former president of the
government suggests the possibility of closing the border to Rumanians.
Romano Prodi' s government, who approved a decree to extend to the community
citizens (the Rumanian ones despite not appearing on the text) represive measures
applicable to other immigrants, seems to be overwhelmed by the news.
The homicide of a woman in Rome
presumably commited by a Rumanian man with criminal records led to a
crisis of unpredictable consequences. Italy has always been the favourite
destination for Rumanian immigrants. Since Rumania became part of the European
Union in January, the amount of immigrants became bigger and aggravated the
problem of shanties settlement on the outskirts of big cities. Rumanian people, chanties and
offenses are considered as a whole by the majority of the public opinion and
the right parties seem to have found a succesful election formula regarding the
increase of xenophobia.
Prodi reacted offhand after Giovanna
Reggiani's murder. "He made the necessary decision following the
impression of the public opinion after such a horrible crime", said Anna
Finocchiaro, governmental Senate spokeswoman. The emergency of an atypical
decree aimed at Rumanian people and caused by an event happened in Rome was
rapidly interpreted as a power sign of Walter Veltroni, roman mayor and new
centre-left wing leader.The right wing took advantage of this and accussed the
government of using a temporary remedy for a "very serious
crisis".
Whilst the right wing asks for massive
expulsions and a hard treatment to community or non-community foreigners, Prodi
finds again difficulties.
The left sector of his government refuses
the decree due to its xenofobic connotations. The text must be voted today by
the Senate, and Prodi is stuck in the middle of those who ask for rigidness and
those from the left who accusse him of "becoming part of the population
demagogy". In this way, Prody does not have enough votes yet to turn the
expulsion of community offenders into a law.
Source: http://www.elpais.com/artículos/cataluña
3.11.2007
6- Bucarest in Italy: "Stop racism"
There was an urgent call to the Rumanian
Embassy: please make the italian Government do everything possible to avoid
punishing xenophobic acts.
ROME- The Italian Government should do its
best in order to prevent the xenophobic acts, such as the attack to three
rumanians in a parking in
Source: www.repubblica.it
6.11.2007
7- Rome: Alarm: intolerance in the city
A device explodes opposite a shop owned by
Rumanian people. A boy is assaulted near San Pietro and a household
assistant is insulted and spitted on. Community of S. Egidio:
"Worrying situation".
The xenofophia wave invading the Italian capital seems
to get bigger after a serious aggression against a Rumanian group in a
peripherical village. The attack against the army in
Source: E-Polis newspaper Rome – page 22 –
cronaca di Roma
1.11.2007
8- Call to fight against racist events in
Italy, in Rumania and in the whole Europe against the gipsy minority.
Text extract from a call, carried out by
gipsies, non-gipsies and active gipsies civil organisations in Europe and
aimed at Italian and Rumanian Prime Ministers, at the Rumanian President, at
the president of the European Commission and at the commissioner for
Human Rights of the European Council:
"... at the beginning of
November, after the brutal murder which took place on 30th of October in Rome
and whose only suspected was a Rumanian boy of gipsy origin, the Italian
government has tried to take advantage of this hate wave and movement in order
to adopt an urgent decree that would permit the expulsion of Rumanian
citizens with few procedural guarantees of protection.The government
declarations seem to mean that the decree is mainly aimed at "Rumanian
offenders". However, it seems to have been created to allow the systematic
violation of Human Rights by prohibitting the massive expulsion of foreigners.
After the decree was published ... it has been noticed that it is being applied
mainly to Rumanian gipsies by dismantling gipsies settlements. Moreover, in the
Italian country on its whole many people with gipsy appearance have had to
undergo strict document controls with the object of expelling them from Italy.
This kind of discrimination with ratial base infringe many Italian and European
laws and the Italian police is in charge of searching gipsies to expel them
from there.(...) I am concerned about how the debate seems to be dealing with
the possibility of adopting a new European Management that limits the right to
free movement of European citizens among the country members. ... the current European protection
level is limited to the protection of individuals who have been threatened to
be unvoluntary expelled from their countries. The mobilisation of the states on
explicit racist grounds is something related so far to the Europen past.Claude
Cahn – Head of Advocacy Unit - Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
Source : http://www.romanetwork.org/protest2.htm
3.11.2007
9- Punishment expedition: Germani,
risks for Italian people in Rumania
“In
Rumania 40,000 Italian people live and work. How can they not
realise that certain behaviour and declarations threaten to make them be in
danger?The lawyer Giancarlo Germani, president of the Rumanian
Party in Italy, being opposite the Tor Vergata Policlinic (where
one of the three victims of the punishment expedition that took place yerterday
in Tor Bella Monaca recovers) does not hide the fact that he is “seriously
preoccupied”. “Yesterday night's attack? This was not a surprise", he
admits. "It was only a matter of time"...Politicians are
irresponsible. They do not realise the consequence of supporting their own
interests and small party problems. What do they really want? A war among poor
people? If their party programme consists of relieving their anger against
people belonging to a specific community, they should know they are not going
to achieve it because people are not so naive as they think and in a long term
they will fight against the politics which has been carried out by someone who
has only made electoral promises and nothing else for 15 years".
Source: www.repubblica.it
10- Canada record Expulsion
of foreigners:
Following the initiative of the
Ministry of Public Security, Stockwell Day,
Last year, the expulsion had
already beaten a record, according to the annual report, 12617 people were
expelled. The refugees are associated without taking into account risks to the
national security. Canada is closely related to the United States to reinforce
the frontier security on terrorism....
The groups defending Human
Rights are very concerned, especially Amnesty International.
Claudette Cardural, responsible
for refugee affairs in the Canadian-French section of the association
has noticed a complete change in the Canadian politics concerning foreigners
since 2001.
Stefen Harper's government does
not respect human rights so much. The procedural remedy system for the
refugee statute has been reduced as well as the number of commissioners who
have been in charge of it.
A law project has been shown and
adopted in June in order to obligue the goverment to enter the remedy
system in force, with the support of the new democratic party and the majority
of liberal MPs. It will take longer to be approved by the
Senate, being more conservative.
Source: Http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20071109/CPACTUALES1169078/5358CPRESSE
17.11.2007
11- A poliambulatory for immigrants and
Italian people without a fixed residence situated in Via del Leone
It is the first service ever in Toscana of this
kind and the second one in Italy after the one in Milan. This offers a
general and odonthology medicine constituted by 100 doctors and 20 volunteering
dentists, whose work allows to offer daily qualified health services. The new
poliambulatory of the association “Niccolo Stenone” was released yesterday by
the reception adviser Lucia De Siervo, by the health manager Riccardo Poli, by
the dentist coordinator Edoardo Francioni, by the president of
the Stenone Mr. Giovanni Martini and by the president of Caritas
Alessandro Martini. The service, open from Monday to Friday from 15 to 19 hours
is aimed at Italian citizens and at immigrants with health problems who may not
be registered at first on the national health service. This offer promotes and
reinforce the health offer guaranteed on the region. Apart from urgent
assistance and essential cures, there will be general medicine visits and
odonthologic ambulatory visits. The poliambulatory opened on Monday 19th of
November at 17 for the first time.
Source: Aduc - http://www.aduc.it/dyn/immigrazione/noti.php?id=200787
5.11.2007
12- From a small boat to the fame
Antonio Rio Maviba was born on the sea in
May 1984, when his parents scaped from the atrocities in Angola's war. He had
the chance to stand out in something that has led to his way out of the
anonimity and probably out of the poverty and he made the most of it. That
is, he belongs to Villareal football team and he is a professional footballer.
His father played with Zaire (the current Democratic Republic of Congo) in the
world championship in 1974.
His boat arrived in
France at Marsella's harbour (On his passport states "the
sea" as birth place)
In 2004, the trainer Francès Raymond
Doménech wanted to sign him up for the French football team "les
Bleus" to play a match against Israel. But he needed to have French
nationality to play for the rank on the world championhip. The coverage of the
media helped accelerate the case.
Source: http://www.eacnur.org/6402_01cfm?id=1072&CFID=1342919&CHOKEN=15951550
12.11.2007
13- Musical Diplomacy
The minister of Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French
equivalent Bernard Kouchner have recorded an integration-song with the
Turkish-German musician Muhhabet.
The song with the title “Germany” is a mixture of R’n’B and
oriental influences and it deals with the subject of integration and evaluation
of foreign cultures. “Germany, why are you so narrow?, Germany, play the cards
on the table”, says the line that both ministers sang. The participation of the
ministers were limited to the words “Germany, Germany, France, France”, which
mixes with the chorus. The finished song and the making-off pictures,
as informed, will be placed on the web portal youtube on the website of
the Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Plakmusik's website.
Muhhabet is author and star
of a particular musical trend where oriental music, Rhythm, Blues and Hip Hop
rythms as well as German lyrics are mixed up.
Source:
www.tagi.ch
23/11/07
14- Migreurop: a European network of militants and
researchers against the confinement of the "illegal immigrants"
This network wants to spread the
generalisation of the confinement of foreigners without a residence permit and
the multiplication of the fields, of the devices in the heart of the migratory
politics in the European Union.
This network is translated into English,
French, Danish, Spanish and Italian. Its aims are to promote "the great
internment" and "the great distance" in the EU. Its action
is placed against " The Europe of fields" to get to know
the movements of different associations in various countries; to favour the
exchange among groups with practice and with multiple objectives who can act
together and one next to the other. On the 23rd November in Paris there is a
meeting in the street Voltaire on the C.I.P .
Source:http://www.Migreurop.org
15-
Death of a Polish immigrant after being shot with a "Taser gun" by
the Canadian Police in act of undue violence
Robert
Dziekanski arrived in Canada last October 14th to visit his mother. He
was captured by the local authorities in a lounge of
According
to Amnesty International more than 269 people have died in the USA by cause of
the Taser. In Canada, where 18 people have died this year from the same Taser
shot has reopened the debate on the use of the Taser gun and the way the police
acted in the Dziekanski case. The NGO Amnesty International has been reporting
the use of the Taser Gun for the last years and now reiterates the request
to investigate the danger of the Taser gun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6nx0Cx3uMk
29.11.2007
16- 518. 000 registered immigrants are
to be integrated in Madrid
The government council has approved the
signature of a collaboration agreement between the Regional Executive and the
Town Hall of Madrid in order to welcome and integrate the 518 598
immigrantes registered in this city.
This event includes a welcoming,
sensitiveness, residence and participation programme.
This is the APOI project of Integral
Attention with Ethnic Minorities of Eastern Europe, Attention to People of
Subsaharian Origin and the Integral Programme of Situations of Social Exclusion
of Young Immigrants...
The NGOs and the non-profit
organisations collaborate with development projects of the Town Hall, the
intermediate Service, racism and xenophobia.
The budget is around 13 million euros.The
programmes are aimed at foreign residents of the city who belong to more than
half the foreign population in the region. Here there are many Ecuatorian,
Rumanian, Bolivian and Colombian people.
The Council for Immigration and Cooperation
has signed 34 agreements in local entities so far and gives more than 16
million euros to support welcoming and integration projects through
announcements. This year's budget has reached the amount of 10,578 millon
euros.
Source: http://www.fundacionluisvives.org
1.11.2007
1- Catalonian Universities will ancourage cooperation
with Africa
EP - Barcelona
State and Private Catalonian
Universities presented the "Catalonian-African Institute"
(called "ICA" in Spain) yesterday, which will launch cooperation
projects among the African and the Catalonian universities. This
institute has the aim of leading the coolaboration with the African
continent on educational projects, according to what the Institute's President,
Antonio- Pérez-Portabella explained.
The ICA will sign collaboration
projects during the following days. It also carries out plans, such as the
training of around thirty African Managers, Teachers and Professors, as well as
the supplying of resources to their universities. It also includes cooperation
programmes on the fields of health, agriculture and teacher training.
Pedro Alonso, Manager of
the International Health Research Centre in Barcelona and project
manager of a vaccine to fight against malaria suffered by African children,
explained that Africa "needs knowledge, training, science and
technology" more than "money, resources and nice
words". The ICA has the support of Banco Santander and of different
Universities and Intitutions, among them are the Universities of Barcelona,
Girona, Lleida and Vic as well as Barcelona's Autonomous university,
Catalonian's Politechnic University, as well as the universities of Rovira i
Virgili, Ramon Llull and Abat Oliba; IESE and ESADE.
Source: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cataluña/universidades
6.11.07
2- A paradoxical debate in Morocco
Many years ago Morocco was illegally
occupied by Western Sahara and the colonialism was not brought into question.
Contrary to this, Ceuta and Melilla populations do not claim their right to
self-determination.
Whilst Europe wants an approach to Mediterranean
countries, the crisis of Morocco seems to be similar to that of Turkish
nationalists with the Kurs population, risking in this way the cooperation
process among both countries and the European Union.
Source:http://http.//www.eurominority.org
23/11/2007
3- No more violence against immigrant women in
Spain. Amnisty International suggest everyone's collaboration.
Immigrant women who have suffered from
domestic violence in Spain find obstacles to have access to economic
compensations or work permits. Those who are in illegal situations take the
risk of being force to pay a fee or to leave the country if they report to be
victims of mistreatment.
In the year 2007, the rate for million of
foreign women killed by their partners or former partners is almost 6 times bigger than the rate
for Spanish women.
Domestic violence takes advantage of the
vulnerability, lack of protection and defencelessness of their victims.
Amnesty International suggests everyone's
collaboration to eliminate the disadvantages and obstacles that make it more
difficult for immigrant women to overcome violence attacks and to achieve
justice. A letter is ready to be sent to the Vicepresident of the Government,
María Teresa Fernández de
Source: http://www.actuaconamnistia.org
11.2007
1- Eurominority, the web portal of Non-state
Nations and of European Minorities
This web portal was created in 1999 with the
aim of spreading the information dated and distributed according to its
chronology and it dealt with the different minorities. It is updated and
translated in different languages thanks to the collaboration of volunteering
translators. It is also aimed at all cultural and linguistic minorities of very
populated regions and with much tendency to autonomy, as well as
pro-independence people and separatist people in Europe. A minority can be
searched taking into account a state, conflicts, reivindication or other types.
In this portal you will find the Universal Human Right Declaration.
Source:http://www.eurominority.org/version/fra/reports-actualites.asp
This project has been carried out following bilingual posters
( event in the centre in Triestre) to correct the spelling of people's
names.The Lega Nord has
also supported it and has voted with the centre-left party
2- Using Slovene is legal on the region
The orthographic freedom under
the fruilano could extend to TRIESTE.
The text of protection of the Slovene
linguistic minority will be legalised
Thanks to the votes of Entesa Democrática and Liga Norte, the Consejo
Regional(Regional Counsil) has approved the procedure during four long
sessions.
So far only in the meeting of Skgz and
in Sso the Slovene law was commented on "But this is not a closed list,
explains the manager of the Town Hall Tamara Blazina. The law indicated the
requirements to be known as reference association". However, the law
foresees the possibility for citizens belonging to the Slovene minority
to make use in all the region Friuli Venezia Julia of its native language
and to receive a response in Slovene or in Italian with a correct translation.
The text has foreseen the possibility of exposing signs and indications,
product labels, although in Slovene where this minority is represented
according to the foreseen text and the Department will finance the teaching of
Slovene at school and will promote the organisation of training courses and the
professional update for the own staff.
Source: Espresso On - Line
http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio-local/E--legge-l-uso-dello-sloveno-in-regione/1843647/6
13.11.07
3- Spain: eventually a reestablishment of the
rights for irregular immigrants
Meeting, associating, syndicating and
providing access to free justice and to a non compulsory education are the
rights defended the Andalusian Network "Acoje".
The Constitutional Court has just agreed
with all Organisations for Human Rights in Spain.Some sections of the foreign
law of 2000 have been declared unconstitutional because they established
restrictions to rights to gather, associate and syndicate. The free law
assistance is set up, as well as the right of illegal minor children
and from 16 to 18 years old, the right to non compulsory education.
Protection laws for human rights are abolished as well as the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and the international treat for economic, social
and cultural rights of the United Nations.
Source: http://www.canalsolidario.org
2.11.07
1- Week of African cinema in
Barcelona
It takes place from the 8th to
the 14th of November in "Casablanca Gracìa" cinemas and it is
organised by the cultural association "El Ull Anònim" and by the
film maker from Senegal Moussa Touré. In this edition there will be 13 people
invited. Among these there are film makers and five young students from Senegal
who take part in this project of cooperation of audiovisual training.
This African cinema fair
involves a selection of films awarded on the last edition of the "Festival
Panafricano de cine & television de Uagadugù", (FESPACO)
During this week all kind of
audiovisual pieces are seen, which come from Senegal,Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burkina
Faso,Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Marocco, Algeria
and Tunisia.
Source: http://www.ullanonim.org
2- 12th Music Festival in Móns (Catalonia)
Every day, when the worlwide
muslims recite the Koran, they repeat by heart the following verse among
others:" God did not send any prophet before providing them with a nice
voice" The holiest words seem to become futile without the complement of a
melody. In this way, the Persian culture represented by the great Sharam Nazeri
during the Festival, considers that a verse is not complete if it is not
sung.
Maybe for this reason people
from the villages have sung "epics" to save past memories. In
the same way that for children to learn mathematics easily, the multiplication
tables are sung. Each country preserves its identity and its colective memory
by singing.
In the same way, the Kurd Aynur
will sing along. The melody seems to give life to the word seriousness and it
is necessary to go through centuries..It is not surprising that in many
cultures this essential function of remembering by singing is carried out
by professional groups such as the ----------or the --------. In
the mandinga culture its best heir is Boubacar Traoré.
They collected voices belonging
to different traditions, as this year's festival has suggested, we attend a
performance which is not merely musical. We have the chance of knowing more
abot more intimate aspects of each nation. It is a priviledged chance to feel
the world's soul
Source:http://www.auditori.cat
13.11.2007
3- Presentation of the III
World Social Migration Forum
It will be hold in Rivas
Vaciamadrid, Spain, in Septiembre 2008.
In the context of violation to
migrants' rights, we live in a globalised world which is making the frontier
closing bigger and which is building high walls. This also leads to a serious
crisis of refugee rights.
This forum wants migrants to be
considered as social subjects, going beyond the administrative situation and
making it possible to carry out an international protection.
Workshops, lectures and cultural
activities to be carried out are centred in five thematic axis: globalisation
and migration, societies of origin of migration processes, barriers and human
rights, the societies dealing with arrival and situation of migrants
(asylum,refugee and internal movement).
Source:
http://www.fsmm2008.org/es/index.php
4- "The hub", new web portal for Abuse of
Human Rights
http://hub.witness.org already exists in English,
French and Spanish. It is the successor to the social network
"witness", a NGO created in 1992 with the purpose of using
audiovisual means to contribute to the sensitiveness and awareness which,
according to its co-founder Peter Gabriel "trained hundreds of activists
in more than 70 countries" to report" on line" violancions
to Human Rights.
It is a space of video
exchange like Youtube, but this would also include other
services such as group discussion, user register and NGO space.
Source: http://www.fundacionluisvives.org/articulos/2450.html
22/23-11 2007
5- The Unesco Conference about the role
of the media in Europe with regard to emigrants
It will take place on the 22nd
and 23rd of November in UNESCO's head office in Paris. There the
attendance of assistant director-general Abdul Waheed Khan is confirmed on
behalf of the director general. It is a great challenge for Europe. Four main
aspects will be dealth with about legislation and the organisation of European
radios and televisions,considering them as important to contribute to the
process of integration of immigrants.
· The presenters and
reporters, as well as radio actors and television should emphasise the
diversities and its importance.
· A very special attention
should be taken by making an agreement on the way to transmit and analyse
information on topics related to immigrants and their integration.
· All kind of audiovisual work
(documentary, cartoons,...)should present all sides of people's life in
society.
· A politics of specific human
resources to the media should be established taking into account the
multicultural dimension of society.
On the first day, the conference will
focus on cultural and legal aspects of immigration and integration and on the
second day it will focus on the practice on the media industry.
A round table may take place on the 22nd
November which will allow to examine new procedures to promote intercultural
exchanges. The participants will focus on the legislative aspect to improve the
expression of diversity. A session is anounced to present a guide of good
manners to improve social and cultural relations, reflecting diversity of the
information provided by the media. The participants will study the needs of
media to hire foreign staff.
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