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| The virtual event will take place this Thursday, January 28 at 7:00 pm | The journalist and researcher Helena Maleno (El Ejido, 1970) presents this Thursday, January 28, at 7:00 p.m., in the program of scientific thought and culture Cartagena Think her book 'Woman from the border.

Defending the right to life is not a crime ', published by Peninsula, a book that was born from the struggles and resistance shared with the migrant communities, and whose common thread is the judicial process that accused her of illegal trafficking of people and of which she was acquitted in 2019.

The digital act can continue by clicking HERE The founder of the Caminando Fronteras collective in Tangier tells of the police persecution she suffered in 'Border Woman', explaining how she faced a procedure in Morocco, with reports from the Spanish UCRIF, in which this state security body requested life imprisonment for Maleno.

But it is not only the story of those two years of suffering, the Human Rights defender is naming the people who crossed her path and making memory of their lives crossed by the border.

The book gives us an almost visual approach to the death that migrants face, but it also teaches us the resistance of those who fight every day for the right to life at the borders. Helena Maleno is a writer, researcher, and journalist, specialized in Migration and Human Trafficking.

Founder of the Caminando Fronteras Collective, since 2001 she has been working on denouncing human rights violations on the western Euro-African border, developing work to support and accompany sub-Saharan migrant communities during the migration process, with special attention to women and children.

Migrant Her work as a Human Rights Defender has made her worthy of eighteen national and international awards, including the Human Rights Award from the Progressive Union of Prosecutors, the Human Rights Award from the General Council of Spanish Lawyers, the Guernika Award for Peace and the Reconciliation, the Sian MacBride International Peace Prize, and the Pimentel Fonseca Prize for Civil Journalism in Italy. His work in Defense of the Right to Life at sea led him to be persecuted by the Spanish border control police (UCRIF) and the European.

Police investigations that began without any type of judicial control and violating the fundamental rights of the defender, as recorded by the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions and the United Nations Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders in their respective reports on the case.

Finally, the Spanish National Court and the Court of First Instance of Tangier, where he resides, filed the cases, since defending rights is not a crime. The presentation of her book in Cartagena Piensa will be presented by Natalia Moraes, professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Murcia.

It is organized by Cartagena Piensa and Círculo de Silencio and collaborates with the Department of Sociology of the University of Murcia.  function { ;(, , {});}

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena