On the World Refugee Day, June 20, Caritas Europa called for the end of the criminalisation of solidarity with migrants with a large projection on the InfoStation building of the European Parliament. The portraits of three citizens who have been criminalised for their volunteering or humanitarian actions to help migrants…
Solidarity towards migrants and refugees must be lauded, not criminalised. We call for European leaders to put an end to the current trend of criminalisation towards those who help migrants and refugees in distress. It is about our humanity. Statement on the ocassion of the World Refugee Day.
In a context of crackdowns on irregular migration, we are witnessing a real European trend to stigmatise, pose obstacles to and criminalise humanitarian assistance provided by organisations and volunteers to migrants in distress. Caritas Europa warns that this hostile environment creates a chilling effect on solidarity that further fuels toxic…
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Humberto Ortiz is the Assistant to the President of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the Regional Referent of the "Human and Solidarity Economy" Hub that contributes to both SELACC (Caritas Latin America and Caribbean Secretariat) and DEJUSOL/ CELAM (Department of Justice and…
In the context of the European-funded and European-wide Caritas MIND project (Migration. Interconnectedness. Development), Caritas Europa’s network aims to encourage EU and MS institutions as well as European society to recognise migrants and diaspora as real contributors to the integral human development of European society as well as to the…
In the framework of the #whatishome campaign we conducted a phone interview with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. She has worked on transnational migration issues for most of her career and published widely…
"A place that belongs to you, which is yours", this is what home means to Shamim. Born as a refugee, without nationality, he is part of the minority of the Biharis - also called the forgotten Pakistanis. Discover through his testimony why having a place he can call home is…
Nastia, 8 years old, Eastern Ukraine Nastia fled with her father and brother from the fighting in eastern Ukraine to Russia. Nastia's new home is now a small room in a hotel in Wolschsky in Russia. She shares it with her dad, brother, aunt, and cousin. The hotel has rented…
Home is not only my country. Home is where I am now, where my family is… Silvia and I met in 2011 when Silvia came with Caritas Italy to volunteer in a youth centre in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, where I was volunteering as well. The centre is a…