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The City of Cartagena has joined this Wednesday, June 20 to the commemorative events on the occasion of International Refugee Day with the aim of showing support and support to people who are forced to leave their homes for reasons of war, terrorism or any other another cause.

The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, has been in charge of starting the reading of this manifesto;

followed by Yenni Sánchez, a migrant woman from Venezuela from the Cepaim Foundation;

and David Barqueros, from the Fisat Foundation.

The mayor has indicated that the UN estimates that throughout 2018, 136 million people from 26 countries will be refugees and that they will have to leave because of persecution, climate crisis or any kind of widespread violence.

He also recalled that they are human beings who must be protected by the International Community as set out in the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees.

The mayor recalled that we are all children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of immigrants, and therefore, he said, we must commit ourselves in solidarity with this transformation, "as it is demonstrated that society is always one step ahead of policies."

Castejón stressed that Europe, Spain and Cartagena are some of the places from which the protection of refugees should emerge, and where to exercise the simple right to live.

The councilor pointed out that today, June 20 is the International Refugee Day, and recalled that commemorating does not mean celebrating.

The mayor said there is nothing to celebrate and recalled that the status of the refugee is the ultimate expression of a vital need that forces us to intervene and face those millions of human beings.

For her part, Yenni Sánchez recalled Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian boy drowned in Turkey when he tried to cross to Greece with his family;

Layla, an Ethiopian girl displaced by the drought who has to travel 15 kilometers each morning to bring water;

and the Rohingya population, who live in bamboo shelters and plastic tarps resisting the rains and winds of the monsoon climate.

He has also remembered women raped by the enemy faction;

to women and girls who are victims of trafficking in persons;

and children recruited as soldiers, who are forced to kill their own families and then become killing machines.

It has also denounced the agreement between the European Union and Turkey to prevent thousands of refugees reaching the European coast in exchange for 3,000 million euros a year, creating a state of social alarm and threat for the effect called refugees.

Finally, David Barqueros has asked for intervention in the education system to favor students in the face of migration processes;

to be informed in a fair, dignified and respectful manner;

that the parties stop using the serious problem of immigration in a demagogic way;

and that an agreement of States be reached that obliges governments to comply without conditions or delays reached by the international community.

Likewise, Barqueros has called for the adoption of a gender perspective in the consideration of refugee status;

that political and economic commitments be developed to intervene in a fair way in the countries where these migratory processes originate;

and develop work protocols and effective and direct coordination between Central Administration, Autonomous Community and City Councils on programs and plans for reception and integration of refugees.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena