The UAB adheres to the campaign “Casa nostra, casa vostra”

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The campaign was created by a group of volunteers from the communication field who decided to explain what they had seen when they visited the refugee camps located between Greece and Macedonia. All of this with the objective of raising awareness and mobilising both entities and people.

28/11/2016

The UAB adheres to this solidarity campaign with the aim of offering support, together with other institutions, to entities searching for a solution to the severe humanitarian crisis existing in Europe today. The campaign was created by a group of volunteers from the communication field who visited the refugee camps located between Greece and Macedonia and who decided to explain what they had seen with the objective of raising awareness and mobilising people. The UAB's adherence to the campaign was announced in a press conference this past 29 November in Barcelona.

The campaign aims to make Catalonia a place where refugees are welcome, in order to guarantee their right to a dignified social development while living in exile. This will be done firstly by mobilising and raising awareness among the population in order to change collectively the way of thinking of society and the institutions.

The initiative aims to achieve this by giving visibility in the media of those truly collaborating in finding solutions to this conflict, such as volunteers, organisations and refugees themselves. This will help once again to open the debate on the refugee crisis and mobilise a greater amount of people.

All this is included in the manifest “Casa nostra, casa vostra” (Our House, Your House), which not only bases its arguments on historical examples, but also exemplifies the severity of the current situation: “More than 290 million people have been forced to leave their homes because of armed conflicts, human rights violations, climate change and poverty. Since 2000, and because of the European closed border policies, over 35,000 people have lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea, which has turned into a huge cemetery. The year 2016 has been one of the deadliest ones ever”.

The UAB adheres to the campaign with the aim of offering institutional and academic support to an initiative fighting against this humanitarian crisis.

More information (in Catalan)