The vice president of the Valencian government, Mónica Oltra; the political expert Sami Naïr; and the full university professor of Philosophy of Law Javier de Lucas are taking part today Monday in an event defending the rights of refugees, that is taking place at 19 hours at La Nau, the historic building of the Universitat de València. The event, that has been organised by the Institute of Human Rights of the Universitat de València (IDH), will be moderated by Antonio Ariño, full university professor of Sociology and vice-principal of Culture and Equality.
It is about, as Javier de Lucas explains, ‘remembering that these people, as human beings, as migrants and as refugees have rights that we have proclaimed, agreed and ratified in several occasions: in the Convention of migrants workers rights and their families, in the Convention in Geneva of the rights of the refugees and in the European Charter for basic rights that, in its 19 article, forbids the collective expulsion; and, therefore, it is about demanding to obey the law’.’ We cannot be accomplices of this flagrant violation of Human Rights -he adds- we cannot remain silent, we have to react with our weapons, which are reason and words’.
Mónica Oltra, vice president, spokesperson and minister for Equality and Inclusive Policies of the Valencian government, has driven an initiative to create a humanitarian corridor in the Mediterranean that allows to take in, in Spain, people that flee from the Syrian war and she has compromised to take in 1400 refugees in the Valencian Community. Graduated in Law by the Universitat de València, for years she combined her work as deputy with her legal profession, as legal advisor, among other vulnerable groups, of the ‘Col·lectiu Lambda’ that defends the rights of gay, lesbian and transsexual people..
Sami Naïr is a political expert, philosopher, sociologist and full university professor at the Sorbonne, specialists on migrants movements and creator of the concept co-development. Between 1997 and 199 he was advisor of the Government of Lionel Jospin and, until 2004, member of the European Parliament. He is a full university professor of Political Sciences, director of the Centro Mediterráneo Andalusí (CMA) and professor and researcher at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide of Sevilla. He directed ‘Les Temps Modernes’, with Simone de Beauvoir and ‘L’Evenément européen’, with Edgar Pisani.
The professor Javier de Lucas has recently published: ‘Mediterráneo: el naufragio de Europa’ (Tirant publisher). Full university professor of Legal Philosophy and Political philosophy at the Institute of Human Rights of the UV, where he was the founder and first director, he has also been president of the Spanish Comission for Refugee Aid (CEAR, 2008-2009).
About the IDH
Founded in 2005, and currently led by the professor Consuelo Ramón, the Institute for Human Rights of the Universitat de València (IDH) has received the Excellence Award from the Ministry of Education for its doctoral programme in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice. The IDH obtained in 2008 a grant within the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme. The institute is part of a project in which twelve research groups from different Spanish universities participate, coordinated by the ‘Bartolomé de las Casas’ Institute for Human Rights of the Carlos III University of Madrid. The selected project is called ‘El tiempo de los derechos’ (‘Time for Rights’) and its main researcher has been the lecturer Gregorio Peces-Barba. Consolider-Ingenio 2010 is the main funding source for the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation 2008-2011 for high-quality projects. It was the first time that a team formed by researchers from the legal field received this kind of aid, mostly aimed to scientific contexts away from Humanities and Social sciences.
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Last update: 18 de march de 2016 07:00.
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