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Since December 4, 2000, the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed December 18 as the International Day of Migrants, this anniversary is celebrated every year coinciding with the date indicated.
With this motive, the municipality of Cartagena has expressed solidarity with this commemoration with an act in which an institutional manifesto has been read.
The act, which took place at the gates of the Palace, has had the presence of the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, and the Councilor for Social Services and Social Mediation, Carmen Martín del Amor, who have participated in the reading of the statement with technicians from the Department and representatives of various entities supporting migrants such as Columbares Association, Cepaim, Abraham Project, Al Raso, Murcia Acoge, Cáritas, Accem or Athenaeum of Popular Culture as well as other councilors as Francisco Espejo or Pilar Marcos, among others.
The first mayor has pointed out that what was sought with this action was to pay tribute to all those people who have risked their lives, and who in many cases have lost it, to seek a better future, while expressing the Government's intention to continue working for human rights.
Ana Belén Castejón has underlined the "great cultural richness" of the port city and the entire municipality of Cartagena, a "cozy municipality, in which customs, cultures and people of very diverse nature can be accommodated".
The mayor added that the City Council has responded "standing up" to the solidarity clamor of the public.
In this regard, Castejón has praised the moral and real commitment assumed by all those people and institutions that have participated for more than 20 years in the development of solidarity programs aimed at combating and preventing social exclusion and the prejudices that surround the daily life of migrants as well as to promote respect and move towards a more just society.
On the other hand, the first mayor has claimed that it is necessary to have a vision without prejudice, objective and directed towards the most social and solidary conscience of all citizens and has maintained the "unavoidable" commitment of the City of Cartagena with the phenomenon of migration .
Carmen Martín del Amor, meanwhile, has referred to the "catastrophe of the thousands of people who continue to die in the Mediterranean in the attempt to reach the European coasts in search of protection and future", a situation that has exemplified the past 15 November with the massive arrival of people at the Port of Cartagena, which made it necessary to deploy a special emergency device to serve the women, men and children who arrived.
The mayor of Social Services and Social Mediation has also taken the opportunity to demand from the media "a scrupulous use of responsibility as means capable of configuring social conceptions and that adequately treat migrants in full coherence with the rights that they have. they attend in order to break the stereotypes and overcome the prejudices that are causing so much damage ".
The councilor has also condemned the racist, xenophobic and intolerant manifestations towards migrants and recalled that foreigners "contribute significantly to the development of the host countries and destination."
"As citizens, we can not ignore the rights, dignity and suffering of many people who have decided to start a new life project," said Carmen Martín.
CARTAGENA, CIUDAD SOLIDARIA
Cartagena belongs since 2011 to the Network of Cultural Cities and since September 2015 also the Network of Refugee Welfare Municipalities promoted by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP).
In addition, many initiatives have been developed in the port city, such as the Board of the Host Entities Network, which has been active since May of this year.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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