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On the occasion of the International Migrants Day, which is commemorated on Tuesday, December 18, the City of Cartagena has made the reading of a manifesto in which he has shown the Consistory's commitment to this social reality.
The event has gathered hundreds of migrants in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de Cartagena, almost all of them women, who have listened to and participated in this act of protest.
Also present were the Councilor for Social Services, Mercedes García;
as well as other councilors of the Municipal Corporation: Ana Rama, Pilar Marcos, Francisco Martínez and María Teresa Sánchez.
The reading of the manifesto has been started by the Councilor for Social Services, Mercedes García, who has started her speech emphasizing that today a commemoration was taking place and not a celebration.
"Because there is nothing to celebrate, on the contrary, this year to commemorate means regretting the enormous setback that the rights of migrants are suffering."
Garcia justified this statement by "the wave of xenophobia, racism, and machismo that is invading our country hand in hand with political positions, supposedly democratic, that can only produce political and moral tyranny."
The mayor of Social Services has also highlighted the importance of migration since "they favor the economic growth of the country.
Enrich society and culture "
This year, the International Organization for Migration, as an Organization of the United Nations for Migration, is committed to assisting governments in meeting sustainable development goals.
Many countries have signed the Global Compact for Safe, Ordered and Regular Migration, including Spain.
García also explained that migrations "is a problem to which we can not and should not look away" and not only because thousands of Spaniards have to migrate every year, in search of better living conditions. One hundred percent of the Spanish population was a migrant, but because "our future depends on the solution we owe to the migratory flows that occur in the world." According to the UN, it is estimated that this year 2018 more than 136 million people They have had to leave their country.
In addition, the Manifesto has also mentioned the role of migrant women, who are the forgotten and the last to benefit from opportunities.
Women are the first to suffer any humanitarian crisis.
"Migrants, because they are women, are subjected to specific forms of violence, regardless of their age: rape, mistreatment of their partners or ex-partners, genital mutilation, sexual harassment, domestic slavery, prostitution ..., they are normalized horrors that daily suffer millions of women throughout the world, "Garcia stressed.
In the protest act has ended with the intervention of many of the migrant women.
All of them have read petitions to fulfill the rights recognized in the UN.
When concluding all the concentrates they have directed in march until the district of the Conception.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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