“Where should they go?” Migrants and Refugee rights
“Where should they go?” Migrants and Refugee rights
October 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm IST
“Where Should They Go?” Migrants and Refugees’ Rights is a shared discussion on Migrants and Refugees rights taking place onsite at The Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 on Sunday 20 October at 4pm. The event is organised by Front Line Defenders with guest speakers including Haneen Boshosha, a woman human rights defender from Libya; Ieva Raubiško, a woman human rights defender from Latvia and Lorena Zambrano, a woman human rights defender from Chile. During this panel, speakers look at the challenges migrants and refugees face around the world but also what their strategies are to build responses and alternatives.
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Speakers
Haneen Boshosha – Woman Human rights defender from Libya.
Ieva Raubiško – Woman Human rights defenders from Latvia
Lorena Zambrano – Woman Human rights defenders from Chile
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“Where Should They Go?” is a discussion on Migrants and Refugees rights taking place onsite at The Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 on Sunday 20 October at 4pm.
Migrants and refugee communities, human rights defenders and organisations around the world have worked daily to mitigate the enormous challenges on securing migrants and refugee rights.
According to the UNHCR[1], by May 2024, more than 120 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of different reasons such as human rights violations, persecution, climate change, and conflicts.
Those people are one of the most vulnerable groups that need protection. Protecting forcibly displaced people is the responsibility of many actors, including the international community and the local governments. However, those actors are not completely fulfilling their duty to protect forcibly displaced people.
In face of this situation, human rights defenders intervene and support the compliance of these obligations, with the aim of respecting and guaranteeing the human rights of this group. These defenders work around the world addressing these issues, becoming the voice for those who are voiceless, by advocating and raising awareness on the human rights situation of the people on the move.
In this panel, we will hear the experiences of three women human rights defenders who work with forcibly displaced people around the globe, from Latvia, Lybia and Chile. These defenders will share their histories, demands and expectations on the future for the people on the move from their own circumstances but with a same aim: to ensure the exercise of their human rights.
https://www.unrefugees.org/refugee-facts/statistics/
Guest speakers for the event are Haneen Boshosha, a woman human rights defender from Llibya; Ieva Raubiško, a woman human rights defender from Latvia and Lorena Zambrano, a woman human rights defender from Chile.
The event is organised by Front Line Defenders. Front Line Defenders was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders (HRDs) at risk, people who work, non-violently, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Front Line Defenders addresses the protection needs identified by human rights defenders themselves. Front Line Defenders maintains its headquarters in Dublin, an EU Office in Brussels, and regionally-based field staff in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
Speaker Biographies:
Haneen Boshosha
Hanin is an international expert and Gender and Governance Re-searcher with over ten years of experience working on peace and stability for women and girls in fragile and conflict-affected States. Hanin was one of the founders of the newborn civil society in Libya and helped establishing many NGOs and CSO networks such as Shabab Alnahda, Shahed network, and the women’s movements Women’s Alliance for Peace in Libya and the Middle East, she is also honorary member of Defender Center.
Ieva Raubiško
Ieva Raubiško is a human rights defender who works with the people on the move in Latvia. A social anthropologist by education, Raubiško has been following the situation of irregular migrants and asylum seekers at the Latvia-Belarus border since July 2021. Having volunteered for the non-governmental organisation Gribu palīdzēt bēgļiem (GPB – I Want to Help Refugees) for several years, Raubiško joined GPB as a project coordinator/advocacy officer in September 2022.
Lorena Zambrano
Lorena is an Ecuadorian migrant and woman human rights defender who lives in Chile since 2019. She is the representative of the Open Association of Migrants and Promigrants of Tarapacá (Asociación Abierta de Migrantes y Promigrantes de Tarapacá), organization from where she promotes the rights of migrants, refugees and their families. She works in the region by installing visibility public spaces for the defence and promotion of migrants’ rights, and also by attending and being a spokesperson in emergency situations that migrants face in the country.
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