Emmanuel - beaten up and insulted in Parma by the municipal police
Reporting of the man stopped outside his school
A Ghanian student was stopped and taken to the commander of the vigili urbani of Parma with the accusation of drug dealing. An article appeared today on the La Reppublica website reporting the event in detail, in the words of Emmanuel, who had contacted the press. Stopped by people in civilian clothes, he spoke of running away, frightened, and being followed. Handcuffed and beaten, he was taken by car to the commander of the vigili urbani. “I saw two men behind me talking on their mobiles, (...)
[ 3 October 2008 ] |
European delegation for rom blocks the access to Palazzo Madama to Everyone group
Everyone: “Serious violation to freedom of expression supporting racist groups. We will report to European mediator”
With an unprecedented decision, the President for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of European Parliament Gérard Deprez communicated, a few minutes before the beginning of the official meeting among European MP delegation in Rome to verify rom conditions in Italy and the organizations which handle human rights, the exclusion from the meeting - previewed for Thurday September 18th at 6PM - of Everyone group delegation, invited a few days ago, formed from leaders (...)
[ 19 September 2008 ] |
Milan. Murder of Abdul – The social tensions and the intolerance politics
Initiatives in the city starting from schools, while one might question about the results of security politics.
Abdul Salam Guibre, a 19 year-old Burkina Faso native but Italian citizen, is dead after being attacked with bar blows on Zuretti Street in Milan.
The issue at hand, whether the omicide was racially motivated or an unfortunate set of coincidences, or whether the answer lies in the politics displayed by the new government, exercising exagerated security measures, capable of ploughing through policies held in place by a previous administration.
The reality speaks for itself, a deceased young (...)
[ 19 September 2008 ] |
Libya must stop the migrants leaving the country. But at what price?
A new movie shows what happens to the migrants in Libya while Europe pretends to not know.
Minister Maroni said that Libya doesn’t respect the agreements took with Italy because it lets hundreds of clandestines leave its coasts.
He spoke at the Lega Nord annual party, in Venice, receiving general applauses.
Next to him there was Angela Maraventano, deputy mayor and Lega Nord Senator that comes from Lampedusa. She started managing a pizza-restaurant and then went into politics taking advantage of the “landing panic” that from her island has been diffused in the whole Italy. (...)
[ 15 September 2008 ] |
Rights at risk at port frontiers
Interview to Francesca Cucchi, Venice Cir manager
Let’s interview Francesca Cucchi, manager of Venice Cir, a service which operates at the port and airport frontier pass of this city.
This interview is part of an in-depth path that Melting Pot far-back started on migrant treatment ways at Venice port. People arrive here after a trip where often they loose their life. Many of them come from war zones or particularly problematic territories and are in need of international protection.
But also when the migrants manage to reach the Venice (...)
[ 11 September 2008 ] |
Lettera all’UNHCR dei Rifugiati Politici e dei Possessori di Protezione Umanitaria che si trovano nella struttura dell’ex- scalo merci “Porta Romana"
novembre 2007
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are the spokesmen for about 300 people who have been granted Refugee Status or Humanitarian Protection by the Italian government.
We live in Milan, where local authorities, in the last years, have not helped us find safe and dignified living accommodations.
Local authorities have also failed to provide both linguistic and vocational courses, much needed in order to attain our socio-cultural and economic integration in this country (where we are (...)
[ 27 June 2008 ] |
Practical instructions: First assistance contribution for asylum seekers
Who may ask for contribution
The foreigner that required international protection recognition and has the right to reception and for whom it’s not possibile to find a place among the centres financed by the “Fondo Nazionale per le Politiche e i Servizi dell’Asilo” (= National Fund for Asylum politics and services) namely the government centres.
The applicant then must be in a poverty state verified by the Police Office.
How to ask for contribution
You need to submit a contribution (...)
[ 2 June 2008 ] |
Death at the CPT of Turin: interview to lawyer Gianluca Vitale visiting the structure
Delays in reliefs and revolt of prisoners in the CPT of last generation
Lengthen the stay in a CPT to 18 months?
Remind that a man was found death in10 days in the CPT of Tourin!
A tragic inauguration for the new centre of temporary detention in Turin; this new centre, costed 12 milion of euros, was defined by the prefecture “more safe and civil” and started working, in secret, monday morning.
On this first period of organization, the persons hosted in the centre were 60, but another 70 rooms are under contruction.
At 8 o’clock of saturday morning, in the (...)
[ 27 May 2008 ] |
Practical instructions – The procedure for the recognition of international protection
Who can introduce the request for the recognition of international protection
The request can be done by the foreigner that intend to ask Italian State protection because he/she escapes from persecutions, tortures or from war, even if he/she entered irregularly in Italy and devoid of documents.
The applicant will have to justify in the request the circumstances of persecution or serious damage which caused his/her escape.
The agents of this persecution or serious damage may be the (...)
[ 27 May 2008 ] |
Leaving and re-entering Italy while waiting for the renewal of the visa (Permesso di Soggiorno) – The old rules will become effective from the first of April.
The transitory rules established by the Ministerial Memorandum from the 12 December 2007 will expire the 31 of March 2008.
Once again, facilitations to leave and re-enter Italy for visa holders waiting for renewal (those who hold only the receipt testifying that the application for the renewal of the visa has been submitted), are un-understandably destined to expire.
The Ministerial Memorandum from the 12 December 2007 stating that visa holders waiting for renewal are allowed to cross (...)
[ 28 April 2008 ] |
Leaving and re-entering Italy while waiting for the renewal of the visa (Permesso di Soggiorno)
Practical instructions updated the 14th of December 2007
Temporarily, until the 31st of March, 2008, visa holders waiting for renewal are allowed to cross terrestrial, maritime, or aerial borders within the Schengen area.
The Poste Italiane receipt (given to a visa applicant upon submitting an application for visa renewal) will be sufficient in order to exit and re-access Italy.
This right had been granted by a directive of the Interior Ministry from the 5th of August 2006. There are further and more specific ministerial memorandums.
First (...)
[ 28 April 2008 ] |
Reggio Emilia - May 01 2008. Irregolar work, extreme precariusness, working men’s death: Stop!
We are the women and men who succeed to don’t suffocate in a container on a truck. We are the women and men who did not drown into the sea. We are the women and men who crossed the frontiers in search of a better future. We are the women and men who work in big cities. We are those who fill the pockets of the illegal part of the economy because for us there is no other possibility to survive. We are obliged to spend a part of our lives lined up in front of the prefecture and now also at (...)
[ 22 March 2008 ] |
Decree Law on deportation and the "war against the last"
Marco Revelli interviewed by Melting Pot Europe
Translate: Zmag.org
A Decree Law on the expulsion of [European] Community citizens. European space, European citizenship. We interviewed Marco Revelli, a historian and sociologist who teaches at the East Piedmont University.
D: For one barrier fallen - that which has seen Romania and Bulgaria make their way into the European Union - it seems like other, newer barriers have to be mounted. The politics, the mass media, the community laws, all seem to have short-circuited. You have described this situation as (...)
[ 9 November 2007 ] |
Reggio Emilia: 1st May of Irregular Workers
Over one thousand migrants in Reggio Emilia to request a “sanatoria immediately”
More than one thousand migrants participated at the demonstration of the 1st of May organized by the Commitee of Irregular Workers. The procession of demonstrators crossed the streets and squares of the town, shouting "Enough with the speculations on our backs, sanatoria immediately".
On the occasion of the International Worker’s day, the Commitee of Irregular Workers, started up the the last 25th of March, arranged a meeting at the railway station of Reggio Emilia with those invisibles and (...)
[ 2 May 2007 ] |
Immigration Flows 2006 - Toll free number in Venice
Information service by calling Sportello Unico Immigrazione in Venice
This number is dedicated only to the law for immigration flows (Decreto flussi 2006), which regulates the number of foreigners admitted to have working visa for heach kind of occupation.
Monday 9:00 – 12:00 Tel: 041.5221469
Wednesday 9:00 – 12:00 Tel: 041.5042085
Thursday 9:00 – 12:00 Tel: 041.5221469
It is possible to ask informations about procedures. The public office Sportello Unico, is situated near to Ufficio Territoriale di Governo di Venezia, in Venice - S. (...)
[ 27 March 2007 ] |
