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Seeking employment, improving the quality of life, fleeing wars and famines, finding love, accessing better health and education are some of the reasons why people decide to emigrate from their country.

Since 2001, the UN General Assembly, before the increase of migratory flows in the world, proclaimed this December 18 International Migrant Day, although already in 1990, began to take the first steps with the International Convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families.

Cartagena joins this Wednesday to the celebration of this day with the reading of the manifesto on the steps of the City Hall.

This institutional act, organized by the Department of Social Services, has been assisted by the Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Social Welfare, Noelia Arroyo, the second deputy mayor, Manuel Padín and the mayor of the Social Services area, Mercedes García.

There have also been the councilors of the municipal corporation, José López, Isabel García, Pilar Marcos and Aurelia García, as well as technicians from the Department and representatives of the associations CEPAIM, Rascasa, Alraso, ACEEM, Caritas La Palma, Murcia Hosts, Columbares, Project Abraham and the Federation of Neighborhood Associations.

The vice mayor of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo, explained that the objective of this day is “to remind citizens that immigrants, both those who arrive to our shores and those who emigrate from Spain to other parts of the world, are people and therefore , they are worthy and subject to Human Rights. �

Arroyo has affirmed that “when we renounce the recognition of immigrants as people, the compression of their vulnerability and their integration as a mechanism for social progress, morality becomes an ideology, since cultures are not defined by their skin color or the place of origin of the people who constitute them except for the content of their convictions, the morality of their choices and the justice of their behaviors �.

For this reason, he has asked citizens to choose between “creating a fair and equal society, in which we are them and vice versa or recreating an antagonistic, unfair and unequal society, an idea that has its maximum expression in attitudes or attitudes. ways in which the natives treat those who consider 'them', those who are said to be not like us or are used as things that serve, that have expiration, we devalue them causing them to lose their humanity creating an abyss in us "

To these words, the Councilor for Social Services, Mercedes García, has added that “minors who are here without families are vulnerable and need more protection, as are women who are sexually exploited and suffer from macho attacks as well as the farm workers and the homeless. â€�

To achieve this, García stressed that “the first thing to do is to recognize them, integrate them and empower all immigrants, turn them into us and set as a project to create a more egalitarian and just society for all, where the main capital contributed be the human, leaving prejudices aside. â€�

Under the slogan 'Same land, same freedom', several women from different cultures and ethnicities, coming from the Local Table of Immigrant Women, have put voice to the manifesto where they have asked for respect, equality and to be recognized as people like the rest of the nonimmigrant citizenship.

Mercedes García has concluded by affirming that “we have been, are or will be emigrants and that we all find elements that unite us such as the desire to progress, to seek the welfare of our families, to have a better life project wherever it may be in the same land, which is not exclusive to anyone â€�.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena