What is the situation of migrants stranded in Libya? What are the tools envisaged for their protection and what is their effectiveness? How have interception and rescue methods in the Mediterranean changed and in what direction are they evolving? What are the responsibilities of Italy for the crimes that take place in Libya?
Five years after the signing of the Memorandum of cooperation between Italy and Libya, Amnesty International Italia and ASGI organize a conference to address these issues.
The effects of the Memorandum were soon evident: if in 2016 there were over 180 thousand people who managed to escape from Libya, in 2019 only 11,471 people arrived in Italy by sea. In the last five years, over 85,000 people have been intercepted at sea and returned to Libya where they are forced to live in deplorable conditions, subjected to abuse and arbitrary detention, imprisoned in exploitation systems favored and reinforced by the same departure block.
The conference will see jurists, journalists, politicians, and representatives of Italian and Libyan civil society discuss the effects of the Memorandum on the lives of migrants to understand together how to overcome migration policies that harm the human rights of people on the move.
When, where and how
Online and in Rome, Città dell’Altra Economia
May 16, 2022
h 9:00am – 6:30pm CET
To participate in Rome: https://bit.ly/38do4MU
To participate on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3OW19c9sR6WUVLH0ztd62A
Simultaneous translations in Italian, Arabic and English.
For further information: sciabacaoruka@asgi.it
Il convegno è realizzato nell’ambito del progetto Sciabaca&Oruka – oltre il confine finanziato dalla Fondation Assistance Internationale.