<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">PHM Global Secretariat</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:globalsecretariat@phmovement.org">globalsecretariat@phmovement.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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</font><b><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:14pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000">Solidarity with
migrants, immediate closure of all CIEs</font></span></b><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000"></font></span><br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000">We are
currently witnessing the protest by a group of desperate migrants detained in a
Centre for Identification and Expulsion (CIE) in Rome. Some of the migrants
have literally sewn their lips together and many others have joined the protest
through hunger strikes.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000">This is yet
another protest by migrants, forced to take extreme forms of self-harm which
they see as the only way to draw attention to their situation, using media
pressure to get the authorities to listen.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000">The sewn lips
forcefully shout out about the inhuman conditions in which migrants are forced
to live in Italy, creating awareness about the various conditions they are
subjected to in our country. These include both the institutionalized centers
such as the CIEs, and improvised, dilapidated and inhabitable housing
solutions.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000">The sewn lips
shout out about the right to be considered as human beings, regardless of the
reason for their journeys – inevitably difficult, risky and life threatening -
that led then to change continents.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000">The Centres for
Identification and Expulsion (CIE) represent an institutional limbo, where
daily violations of basic human rights occur. These are a disgrace that can no
longer be tolerated.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000">We invite you
to refer to the report “Archipelago CIE” drawn up by the association
"Physicians for Human Rights," which shows that the "inhuman and
degrading situations within these structures are not isolated incidents – which
anyway should be considered unacceptable. Instead they are frequent and
persistent practices and conditions".</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000">The sewn lips
shout about all this in silence. We believe that the time has come to listen.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000">We call upon
the initiative of citizens and organizations to provide support by extending
solidarity to this heartrending protest and we appeal to all political and
legal institutions for the immediate closure of all CIEs. This needs to be
together with a redefinition of immigration rules in Italy, resulting in a
reform of the immigration policies of our country to facilitate acceptance of
migrants and a respect for human rights. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000">We also ask
that women and men currently detained in the CIEs are not deported but instead
are freed and allowed to live in our country, in conditions of dignity and
freedom.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000">To join the
call and support this struggle, please write to </font></span><span lang="IT"><a href="mailto:medicisenzacamice@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:UnGraphic"><font color="#000080" size="3">medicisenzacamice@gmail.com</font></span></a></span><span style="font-family:UnGraphic;font-size:11pt" lang="IT"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p>
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oups </div>- Associa<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">tions joining the call</div>
:</b></font></span><p></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">People’s Health Movement Europe, Medici Senza Camice (Roma), Centro di Salute Internazionale (Bologna), </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Osservatorio Italiano sulla Salute Globale,</span></font></p>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></div><span style="line-height:1.15;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap">Società Italiana <div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">
di</div> Medicina delle Migrazioni,</span><span style="line-height:1.15;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"> Rete Italiana per<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">l</div>’Insegnamento della Salute Globale, </span><span style="line-height:1.15;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Associazione Cittadini del Mondo (Roma), Laboratorio Itinerante della Decrescita (Roma), </span><span style="line-height:1.15;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ciclofficina Gazometro (Roma), </span><span style="line-height:1.15;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aps Garibaldi 101 (Napoli)</span></div>
<div><br clear="all"></div><div>--<br>Global Secretariat<br>People's Health Movement (PHM)<br>Email: <a href="mailto:globalsecretariat@phmovement.org" target="_blank">globalsecretariat@phmovement.org</a><br>Web: <a href="http://www.phmovement.org" target="_blank">www.phmovement.org</a><input type="hidden"><input type="hidden"><div>
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