Quellenangabe:
Bamako Call for the respect and dignity of migrants (vom 09.02.2006),
URL: http://no-racism.net/article/1561/,
besucht am 21.11.2024
[09. Feb 2006]
The World Social Forum (WSF) 2006 took place on three continents. Turing the meeting in Bamakao, Mali, a call against the global murderous migration policies was penned. Until the WSF in Nairobi 2007 demands like freedom of movement and equal rights should be strengthened.
Polycentric World Social Forum - Bamako, Mali
The Polycentric World Social Forum is part of the construction process of an alternative to neoliberal policies.
In the name of the fight against clandestine immigration, governments implement a repressive policy with the externalisation of wealthy countries borders through camps, refoulements, deportations and labour force selection.
Those policies lead to dramas such as in Ceuta and Melilla, deaths in the desert, in the Mediterranean sea or in the Rio Grande.
We propose to build at the international level a solidarity union against these murderous policies, between civil societies, NGOs, social movements and associations ...
From Bamako to Nairobi, we suggest to devote a year for an international mobilization dedicated to the right of every person to freely circulate around the world and to decide on one's own future.
The following proposals stem from several seminars dedicated to migrations, hold during the Social Forum in Bamako:
1. We call for the creation of an international network for the exchange of informations and actions for the rights of all migrants.
2. We call for the implemtentation of a focus on «migrations» in the preparation of Nairobi 2007.
3. We propose the creation of an International Mobilization Day which can take place in places which symbolize the borders (airports, detention camps, embassies...):