Group International Human Mobility as an Inalienable Right
“No more massacres in the Mediterranean. We guarantee safe and legal migration routes.”
Our priority
Claiming, in addition to the right to emigrate, as established by art. 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, currently signed by all the member states of the United Nations, also the corresponding right to immigrate, to be welcomed.
Experimenting with migration governance models that block the path of sea traffickers, also with the involvement of organized civil society, allowing family reunification and opening the doors to humanitarian corridors.
To spread the culture of territorial integration in the countries of destination of migratory flows, promoting the development of the skills necessary for its governance.
To urge the European Union to establish a Rescue European Civil Service (RECS) at sea and on land, to defend as a priority the right to life, together with those who are committed to this direction.
The work of the Human Mobility Group
The working group, composed of members from different countries, has started its work in different directions.
In-depth analysis with some of the protagonists of migration issues.
Meetings were organized with Mimmo Lucano, Mayor of Riace, David Yambio, President of Refugeees in Libya APS, which supports refugees in Libya, Antonio Ricci, Vice President of the IDOS Research Center, which annually publishes the statistical yearbook of immigration in Italy, Jamal Zakout, member of the Convention and director of El ARD, Ramallah Study and Research Center.
The group was an active part in the signature collection campaign of the European Citizens' Initiative Stop Border Violence, stop the violence at the borders and within Europe against migrants.
Among the founders of the Convention, Mimmo Rizzuti, edited the book "Processo alla Solidarietà. La Giustizia e il caso Riace", which was presented and discussed by the group.
The working group organized, in March 2023, the presentation in several Italian cities of the documentary “Solo di Passaggio”, made by the Libyan Association “Al-Marsed – Observatory of Gender in Crisis Situation”, with the testimonies of migrants, some still detained in detention centers.
An extraordinary testimony of the stories of women and men who have suffered all types of violence, possible only to a Libyan crew, which was allowed to film places and people, normally closed to anyone else.
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