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In the
context of the Lampedusa tragedy which took place on October 4th when over 300
migrants travelling from Libya to Italy died off the island’s coast after the
boat they were travelling on caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea,
many citizens and organisations across Europe, including European Alternatives,
launched an Appeal for the opening of a humanitarian corridor for the European
right of asylum reaching 20.000 signatures in a few hours.
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A
transeuropean movement for a new migration policy
From
November 2013 to January 2014, European Alternatives was involved in the online
assemblies and meetings with over 100 other European civil society
organisations, coordinating the working group on EU & extra-EU
organisations and their networks, facilitating their
participation
and knowledge-transfer (mainly focusing on the situation of Lampedusa, outreach
programmes, push-back of migrants operations, Italian policing procedures).
The Charter
and all the activities around it aim at clearly determining the rights and
freedoms of every person who crosses national borders in Europe and in the
Mediterranean region. The meeting is an important one with hundreds of key
people taking part from all over Europe. Some of our longstanding partner
organisations, such as Unimondo and Za Lab, will also shoot a documentary film
about this experience with the participation of people gathering to the island
for the meeting, island’s inhabitants, local authorities and students.
Here is the link to the full textof the “Charter of Lampedusa”
as drafted and unanimously approved in Lampedusa on February 1st, 2014:
