WORKSOP  1.   RIGHT/Access to rights

                  25/2 at 17:00 - 19:00                FR                                              

H O M E Preliminary Program RECEIVED ABSTRACTS WORKSHOP 2.A  WORKSHOP 2.B  WORKSHOP 3  WORKSHOP 4  Info Schedule

 

WORKSHOP SESSION :  The purpose of workshops  is  
                                       to  exchange  -  assess  -  recommend  - propose...  
                                              when & where the invisible wounds become visible,
                                              what  kind of  intervention will be possible ?
 

WORKSHOP TOPIC  1

RIGHT/Access to rights

VENUE:  25 Solomou street, 106 82 Athens

TIME: 17:00-19:00

 
 NGO organising :  Greek Council for Refugees - GCR  /  gcr1@gcr.gr   /  www.gcr.gr/en

Contact people :  Lazaros Petromelidis, Director   -   0030-210-3320000


-  Mission:       GCR was founded in 1989 with the purpose of supporting people who seek asylum in our
                        country in order to escape from persecution in their home country.

-  Objectives : Improve its existing services and create new ones always aimed at providing solutions to
   immediate problems and the achieving of social integration.
   * Broaden its services and its action to other regions of the country than the ones where it works today.
   * Continue the offering of Social and Legal services in issues of asylum procedure both in and outside the
      borders of the country.
   * Disseminate its acquired knowledge and experience to other countries, with reference to asylum
      procedures as well as to the configuration of social policy.

-  Target:  Asylum seekers

-  Activities:   Legal assistance to asylum seekers and refugees.
   * Assistance to newcomers, who request asylum, in order to meet their immediate needs for shelter, food,
      clothing.
   * Psychosocial support, vocational counselling and guidance of refugees regarding their integration in the
      Greek environment.

                                  

  

KEY WORDS :  Right indivisible & fundamental ; 
                         Undocumented migrants: destitution, refused rights, barriers & facilities;
                         Gap between declaration & implementation, legal & juridical recours.


TOPIC:   Vulnerability of fundamental RIGHT (indivisible) : ephemeral legislations, (ex. irregular migration considered by any national low as crime !...) and norms often contradictory with fundamental ethical, deontological, humanists rights & principles,  (ex. detention camps, invitation to denounce - as spy - undocumented migrants, indiscriminate rejection, pushing back, not assistance to people in danger...), are deep 'vulnus' wounds in civic society.


WHEN  Right is unrecognized and denied...   THEN   Health: social, physical and mental is wounded...

http://www.smes-europa.org/bullet_right.gif  Against indifference and resignation, which individual, collective, institutional position it is still possible to
   take ?...

http://www.smes-europa.org/bullet_right.gif  Which kind of educations & training for new culture, and which proposals to formulate
   and to recommends ?...

 
 CHAIR : Lazaros Petromelidis

PARTICIPANTS    (preinscriptions):

1. FEU Montserrat,    Atlantida,  President,   Barcelona, SP

2. GRILLONE Carmela,   Don Bosco Network,  General Director Roma IT

3. KASTANJE Maj,   Projekt UDENFOR,   Copenhagen DK

4. KOSKINIADOU Tanya,   Athens Juvenile Probation Office,   Athens GR

5. LOPEZ Bruno,   O SONHO,   Social Ass Setbal, PT

6. MARTINS Ana Sofia,  O SONHO Coordinator  Setbal PT

7. NIKOLAIDIS George,   Institute of Child Health, Psychiatrist Director,  Athens GR

8. NOVAK Sonja,   Center for Health and Migration,   Vienna AU

9. PALAIOLOGOU Nektaria,   University of Western Macedonia, Ass Prof Athens GR

10. SILVA Neuza,  O SONHO,  Social Ass Setbal PT

11. SNOECK Luc,  Tabane Coordinateur BE

12. VALENCIA JOSE KASAPI,  FILIPINO MIGRANTS UNION PRESIDENT ATHENS GR

13. VAN HESPEN Dominique,  Seso Psychotherapist BE  

                                  

  

Proposed Method:

• Introduction : +/- 15 min. for shortly self presentation of participants (Name – Country – Association – Aim)

  1st part : +/- 45 minuts for : Chair, Facilitator + 3 prepared interventions (each ten minuts…)

  2nd part : +/-1h for free intervention, exchanges, evaluations, questions

  Conclusion: +/- 15 min, feed back of Notes keeper in order to be sure don’t lost important ideas & evaluations

• Preparing Round Table : Chair at 7,30 pm will participate with other Chairs and Coordinator of Conference
   in meeting preparing Round Table of Friday.