I do not know if any of you have had a chance
to follow the controversy that has been e
that are still going on these days
on the ng that make search and rescue
rescue in the Mediterranean
here is for those who had escaped
some element of this thing I remember
the prosecutor of the republic of
catania sugar opened an investigation
on ing because it says rumor circulates
someone claims that some ng of
those that with the boats in the
Mediterranean recover the victims of the
shipwrecks and the traffickers they transport
those victims more than anything else
of deductions that derive from the fact that
according to some there would be a communion
of interest the traffickers want
bring refugees to europe leo ng
they want to save the victims of the shipwrecks
these two things are combined and in
somehow why not there could be
a sugar agreement
he says I have no proof, too
clues are rather weak yes there is
a phone call a bit ambiguous are things
that circulate however seen the success of
these his first ones are also very weak and
I would say from a legal point of view
very public affirmations
the success that has been marked
especially from the fact that some
political figures have taken over these
statements to make and in some
an element of political controversy in
particular the friend of maio the friend
of the subjunctives you may have
identified
the sugar prosecutor said between
the other I think there is one behind
motivation is a purpose much more
serious that is to destabilize
the Italian economy
we bring refugees to Italy for
destabilize the Italian economy
if I had known that so easy for
stabilize the economy of the seventh
world economic power I would be
maybe done other programs in life
I would have looked at other problems but
Far be it from me to want to say
underestimate the power of the
non-governmental organizations of the
civil society organizations
I have my doubts especially on the
economic analysis capacity of the
sugar prosecutor however so is the
controversy on the table has been resumed
widely journalistic are skipped
over several warheads to remark
the one that appears more and more as one
very clear division in ours
company that is emerging with great
force in the last years that the one between
who I recognize in this group believes
in the values of consistency in law
international solidarity in
fact that all human beings have
the same rights and that these must
be protected for everyone by whom
he believes in good governance by those who believe
in the need for a policy that
have man in the center and who instead
preaching division preaches separation
talk about us against them
who wants to marginalize those who want
condemn whole ethnic groups or
religious or cultural or even political
why not in indifferently of
compared to what they do that
represent but why in this
some fortunes prosper
policies
I take votes because it speaks to my stomach
of the worst part
of those who believe in all of them
who believe the chemtrails of those
who believe that the vaccines bring the
death of those who believe that it is necessary
keeping them at home must not come
here in our world intact to say
this normally are people who
they wear jeans levi’s wear
baseball caps and sweatshirts with
maybe from an American university that
but they want to protect their own
identity maybe Padana are the
contradictions we must do there
we must live together but there is no doubt
that all this is generating some
extremely worrying dynamics in the
world
sorry I try to identify the key
right if the world is changing and true
it’s not changing for the better I dare
to say emerge characters that
they practice violence
the arrogance of the power they want the
division that wants to marginalize that
they want to condemn entire ethnic groups
who want to build the walls at
borders of Europe are there
indeed building and recreating
a divided Europe are recreating one
europe where human rights are not
more central in the European speech but
where they become a commodity that you need in
somehow try to contain it
reduce in part to cancel with the
anti-terrorism policies with the
immigration policies with the
policies of marginalization some of
these characters speak against them
homosexuals speak against women
speak against the disabled against everyone
those that are somehow
bearers of a diversity compared to
a theoretical model that frankly me
escapes I can not identify but that
they were probably a lot
clearly everything is not right in the head
this is creating a lot of divisions
strong in society where those who
I consider the carriers of values
right of a just ethic of an ethic
more human than one
ethics of equality between beings
human beings of an ethics of open dialogue
tolerance are in one position
definitely subaltern are losing
in the political debate also from us
sowers of hatred flourish
the Division of discrimination
I only represent two because I am
the most obvious ones but we know that by now
more and more politicians are coming
somehow adhere to these
posters and the state is somehow
watching, I would say our minister
of the interior that half of the bad guy says
well, yes, we must not generalize
talking about the energies of their contacts
with traffickers we do not have to
generalize
but there is no doubt that something owes us
to be
if there is a possibility of sin
surely there will be the sinner and
therefore it also feeds the state does not
more from the wall the state is no longer that
that somehow asserts the values
Central Justice and Equity
of equality of rights the state yes
the fear of
losing votes for politicians is so much
strong that in the end if it is about doing
the ugly face we also make the face
ugly
rarely a politician decides to
straighten your back and say no there are
things we can not accept
there are things we can not admit
there are values that we can not and can not
we want to question everything
it becomes debatable at the end
and here again the
fascism Nazism reappearing those
movements that in the thirties have us
brought to disaster on the same
reasons
on the same wave line on the same
kind of thinking replicate that logic
of
mission of otherness and above all of
our superiority over the rest
of the world
unfortunately the rest of the world today at
sbando the organism that has always had
the maximum responsibility in managing
worldly things in stopping wars
the body that in 2005 gave itself the
responsibility to protect victims
civilians of conflicts where states do not
I’m more able to do it today
completely paralyzed
I do not know if on the security council
of the united nations play burraco
or some other game but certainly not
they entertain by analyzing by studying and
looking for solutions to the problems of the world
but they are divided into a game of power
the power of veto here and there if you
I propose one thing obstacle before
say something about Syria the advice
security has employed more than
four years the war had broken out
war already sowed tens of thousands
of victims and spoke of nothing else and
when in 2015 they finally issued
a resolution on Syria was one
resolution that said nothing that
they do not propose anything that they do not
it will solve nothing we are in the hands of
a political class that fails to
look beyond your own
very narrow backyard and that
logic that seemed dominant and
growing in the 90’s of necessity
to assume a responsibility a
global level has been completely
abandoned
indeed I dare to say that march
inexorable human rights that
inexorable march of the progress of the
civilization of the equality of respect
of all that with so many difficulties
obstacles and many contradictions from
end of the second world war up
a few years ago it seemed anyway
a wave that no one could have
stop
today it has stopped and is starting to
come back
we see it in politics
antiterrorism we see it in the
policies of the many countries that are
systematically reducing the rights
human beings for their citizens and for the
citizens of other countries
we see it in the return of the penalty of
death this year there have been
in the last year there have been many
more executions than there are
been in the previous year
for the first time in decades we return
back also on that on the other hand the
world that are outside the world that
this policy is called to govern
somehow to drive and a world that
scares is a world of billions of
people living in a kind of
beehive these port au prince
seen from above a beehive in which
they are born often suffer inevitably
they die usually very young money and
where they can not find even one
glimmer of light that indicates them the
the future one lives, one struggles for the present
in an increasingly unequal world
in a world where inequality is
systematically getting worse by some
decades creating that situation that
we have seen described in the previous 8
people who hold the same
wealth of half the population
one percent of the world market
world population that holds the
same wealth of the remaining 99 per
one hundred which logic can support one
dis of dis is provided with this type
such a sharp distortion and then a
world that is shaken by a change
climate that unfortunately we always tend
everyone to see as a hypothesis
as a possibility of the future
perhaps influenced by science fiction
we think that maybe between 30 40 50 years there
it will be a wave of gigantic tide that
it will even bury the everest
destroying everything is not like that
the climate change is the change
climate is causing damage
unspeakable is reshaping the
anthropogenic geography of our planet
climate change and provoked in the
last 50 years an increase in disasters
thousand percent natural ones
multiplied by 11 times the disasters
natural climatic conditions affect
hundreds of millions of people each
year
every year at least 20 million people
they are displaced forever by one
climate disaster and are going to feed
that huge mass of people who do not
they have another chance to
survival if you do not emigrate from some
maybe part of the campaign towards the
city maybe from your country in
the neighboring one within the
same region
or maybe attracted by the real pool factor
that attracts so many migrants in Europe the
I want to go to live I can not where
human rights are good or bad
respected where there is assistance
free healthcare where there is
possibility of working to conduct one
dignified life without being exposed to
violence to the abuse of slavery like
people who leave these countries
from countries like this the third war
great dynamic factor that stands
changing the nature of the world later
a decade in which it seemed the first
decade of the 2000s in which it seemed
that conflicts should be good or bad
sit down reduce
after the complex emergencies of the years
90 hoped for a change of pace in the
today conflicts are growing each
250,000 people a year die in
conflicts the uncontrolled sale of the
armaments made by the same countries
Westerners who have signed up
treaties that prohibit them from selling
weapons to countries at war is thriving
significantly moves of
person president holland to go
to sell arms to Saudi arabia for
to bomb the Yemen
as well as the defense minister
pinotti who went to renegotiate the
sale of bombs to Saudi arabia that
uses them against the civil population in
yemen who uses it to destroy the
hospitals that use them to destroy them
schools to hit innocent civilians
we no longer have any scruples that
series of values that seemed up to
90 years that anyway the west
he could keep at least solid
in its essential policies
today they went completely to ramengo
and then there is the product migration of the
dynamics that I have just described
but also dynamic factors per se
what impact the migration
migration is conditioning entirely
our political life does not speak d
other for years and we do not talk about anything else
also in the United States also in the
other European countries
every possible search is sought
links migrants bring diseases
migrants are terrorists migrants there
they steal work
none of these conditions is
scientifically proven
none of these conditions is
realistic yet they are the arguments
fundamental elements of the political debate in
europe as in north america and of the
migration that I try them
so we do not stop people from
run away because we do not even try
minimally solving the problems that
they have at home and when people
forced to flee and there
let’s add a wall by telling you from here
do not pass here therefore the logic
dominant seems to be we do not save the
boats at sea is forbidden to bring food and
the volunteers who go tomorrow will be refugees
to assist refugees come
arrested by the Greek police
if a citizen from a European passage
from a refugee passage is fined
for the crime of trafficking in human beings
yesterday fortunately he was acquitted
felix croft French citizen who has
helped some refugees to pass the
There is still a border with France
judge to berlin you would say
there is still someone who still succeeds
to defend some of the principles
fundamental to our civilization
but if this were all for politics
people would go to jail like they would
in jail those who save the shipwrecked
how they would go to jail all in all
all these good guys that wonderful
dialectical artifice this of goodism
no charges to be thrown in the face
people I mean to be ten years ago
called the goodists it would have been a
compliment
ten years ago the operators of the
energies were good guys that
They did some wonderful things
all the life that I hear but that
nice job you do but how beautiful it is
noble what you do now is
became more or less a criminal to
eyes of a good half of the
citizenship thing by opposing the world a
all this great catastrophe
humanitarian produced by climate change
from wars from inequality
economic
this number 53 percent
the whole global humanitarian aid of the
2016 which was, however, less than 4
billions to that of 2015
so the money that the states give in
humanitarian aid to protect
affected populations only covered
53 percent of needs in 2016
it means that half of the people
exposed to natural disasters and war
has not received assistance and is
interesting to see how the nations
join adhere to this at the end
so much spirit that in the appeal
presented to the states to ask
humanitarian resources for 2017 le
United nations say there are 128 million
of people in serious need
we ask for 22 billion then 2
billions less than in 2016 for 92
millions of people in 33 countries the 90 228
I miss 36 million people at the
account well those will manage but in
some way alone is their business
consider that if I ask 22 million
I probably will not receive 16 17 then
that one mechanism is precipitating
that still allowed us to contain in
part of the suffering of hundreds of
million of people
and less will receive so much that ai
Syria borders in the fields of
refugees no longer make plans
educational because there is no money
reduce food rations because
no money is reduced i
medical services because there are no
money
and in the meantime of these 22 billion 8
billions are destined for certain Syria
Syria is the most important crisis of the
moment is not necessarily the
worse but if 8 billion out of 22 lidia ma
the Syria of 32 other countries will have to
get along with four small change for the
sudan for south sudan for somalia
for
the bads for chad for the republic
Central African for the burundi countries where
genocides are going on and then there
we ask why people run away
and then let’s say let’s help them at home
their home this is the Syria is this
their home
let’s help them at their home
a Syria in which hundreds of thousands
of people exactly 400 thousand people
living in a state of siege by
part of the governmental forces or
of the opposition do not receive assistance
humanitarian and therefore are condemned to
to die of hunger or diseases or diseases
consequences of violence in the next
months
this is the row for bread
two years ago at the field of yarmouk camp
Palestinian refugees in Syria but this
it is the situation in which he now lives a goal
of the Syrian population 500 thousand dead
two million injured six million
internally displaced 5 million refugees
a life expectancy that has collapsed
of 15 years between 2010 and 2015 in
Syria in Syria where only for
buy the minimum amount of water to drink
you must spend at least a quarter of the
own income
this is Syria and is the paradigm of
what the world can not do
today a serial that can only be used
to escape like many other countries do not
there is an alternative to leaving
but then find themselves abandoned to himself
they are desperate without assistance
without protection maybe in the beautiful
paved roads of a European country
where you are still considered as one
face to be rejected and not as one
be human from
with a sense of humanity and the advice of
security keeps quiet and lets politics
he is silent, let us rather seek out gods
means to further limit
we would like everyone to die at sea
so they do not come to break the balls
in our country this is what they tell us
politicians today do everything for themselves
prevent assistance to these people
to the point of having created new crimes
that define to the crimes of solidarity e
crimes of humanity to prevent it
these refugees are helped and
useless as our secretary says
general of amnesty international
we must take note that by now not
we can more rely on the states to
governments the responsibility to protect
human rights are no longer ready to
we have to get this back to us
responsibility as citizens like
person this means that it is not enough
more watch shaking his head
worried what happens in the world
this means that we must
start taking the initiative again
directly and personally each of
us to defend our rights e
those of everyone because we are in
presence of an impressive phenomenon
of denial of rights
human that touches all citizens and then
if you know something about human rights
you know that if I reduce human rights
in a country sooner or later that effect
also reproduces in other countries that if yes
lower the standard somewhere
sooner or later the standard will lower
everywhere you look already like
we live by now resigned with the
anti terrorism policies as well
they limit so greatly
our freedom of movement
our right to live peacefully
our life
let’s see more and more politics and
I think of the words of donald trump
the words of against women against i
disabled against war heroes who
they had the defect maybe to practice
a religion different from the one he is
if he has an idea of what
both religion considers religion
dominant of his country and these
we talk about them from the league to
national phone to the followers of the break
set and in britain to the leader
Hungarians to the Polish leaders a
prominent political figures
north European
we are not just talking about the
president of perth and the Filipinas
that he thought well that exterminate i
drug addicts has a way to stop the
drug trafficking in your country we have
hundreds of politicians today in the world that
they are practicing and preaching hate
abuse violence that denial of the
rights so we must resume us
the initiative we must activate we must
doing something is a call to arms
it is a call to arms for everyone
we especially for you allow me to
to say
I will fight in over the next 20 or 30 years
but those like you are old enough
he faces a perspective of a life
still very long and particularly
important that you commit from today in
own daily in one’s own
community in their workplace
in one’s life
We have so many ways to resist
this change
first of all we have laws and laws
on human rights are damned
difficult to change usually
they usually require large majorities
any attempt to change meeting
strong opposition from those who care
human rights and are not operations
simple policies those to cancel
the rights
we have seen how the muslim band of
donald trump has been hampered by the
word of a few judges than in the states
united states have simply ratified
the illegitimacy of the provision and the
what has stopped will not stop for
always
will manage to change the trump laws
will probably get one
sentence of the supreme court of the states
united in favor of its ban no less
however you gain time you create
spaces open up possibilities and then one
active civil society has always been
the main answer when states
they did not do their duty
I would like to remember why I have a life
long enough and a militant for
decades in the humanitarian field but I want to
say from the fight against apartheid to
fight against anti- personnel mines
fight for traffic for a check
of arms trafficking
debt cancellation for countries
poorer at the creation of the court
international criminal these are all
victory that in the last 30 years the
civil society has gotten in spite
of politics a civil society
active and dynamic is a force
irresistible
and then let’s say it and with this I conclude if
in the end , our opponents are those
who preach hate those who preach
divide those who call us
goodists consider us one
because speech that we would be
an elite not an economic elite
evidently rummaged in yours
ditemi pockets if I’m wrong but certainly
a cultural elite
certainly we are people who study
who read that they inform that
we deepen we are people that before
to cut the judgment reflect
we are people who know how to listen to them
others are tolerant people in the
comparisons of ideas different from the
our
we are people who rely on a network of
very strong international relations and
that are able to contribute to
mobilization to the global character if
necessary we are people who reason
who write that they think they know
produce quality ideas those that
we saw it flow into this
day in this room one behind
the other all wonderful all
exceptional all able to bring
of great changes
we are an elite and we are true
an elite because we think why
we respect others because we believe
in rights because we have values
because we want the common good and then
if we are in it we use ours
tools do not let them be the brutes
to take the lead in the debate
politic
we report c to the center of the debate
let us arm him and call him and win another
time our battle for rights
like we did 70 years ago, thank you
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