Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) Sessionon the Violations with Impunity of the Human Rights

Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) Session On the Violations with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples

Launch: Barcelona, Saturday July 8, 2017 Aula Magna de la Univesitat de Barcelona (UB), Edifici històric (Pl. Universitat, Gran Via Les Corts Catalanes, 585, Barcelona)

9.00 – 20.00 Programme

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: Juan Hernández Zubizarreta, Helena Maleno, Iker Barbero, Beatriz Plaza Escrivà

12.15 – 12.45 Break

Contact: [email protected] Website: http://transnationalmigrantplatform.net/ 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, Caravana Feminista (Montse Benito), Representante de organización de personas migrantes africanas, 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)

Contact: [email protected] Website: http://transnationalmigrantplatform.net/  Testimonies: Comitato Verità e Giustizia per i Nuovi Desaparecidos (Don Mussie Zerai, Presidente de la Agenzia Habeshia), UCFR (Baba Jawara), MDCD (Abdellatif Mortajine)

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), Association La Terre pour tous – Túnez (Imed Soltani)

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 (Sudáfrica), 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 Contact: [email protected] Website: http://transnationalmigrantplatform.net/

Contact: [email protected] Website: http://transnationalmigrantplatform.net/