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Meeting with the families of victims of irregular migration

Meeting with the families of victims of irregular migration The phenomenon of irregular migration to the countries of Europe has grown in recent years, despite the hardship of this migration and its consequences, whether in prison or death by drowning .. However, there is a high demand of young Egyptian men to flee their homeland to where the unknown, which escape from the reality of a miserable and painful, most likely young people narrowed their salvation as long as they did not find a living.
The scenery here is old, dilapidated boats stacked with large numbers of Immigrants scene that is repeated in Egypt from time to time, as these young people traveling in some of these boats, both for travel to Libya, and from there to Europe or to travel to Cyprus or Greece directly.
European countries that talk about respect for human rights and the need to devote a realistic and universal, the same is processed on the right to movement, which calls for the international covenants it, is that violate civil rights, social, economic and political migrants, both regular and irregular on its territory, a that will make them second-class citizens of mishandling of dignity and Tmrigha in the mud of racial discrimination. Although the item 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "any person's right to choose their place of residence and freedom of movement within a country wants," and stresses that "everyone has the right to leave any country and return to his country of origin."
International Statistics estimated the number of young Egyptians who have managed to enter many countries of the European Union during the past ten years about 460 thousand young people, including 90 people staying in Italy in an irregular manner. The recorded statistics Italian security alone in the first quarter of this year, receive the coast of Calabria, 14 boats carrying more than 1500 irregular immigrants, mostly Egyptians, and the total number of irregular migrants who have entered Italy in 2007 alone by the sea about 1419 migrants, 500 migrants was were killed in the Mediterranean Sea, compared to only 302 immigrants in 2006. There are about 8 thousand young people from a village in the governorates of Egypt living in Milan, Italy alone. This amounted to incidents of irregular migration in 2008 in Egypt, according to the Statistical Center of the Earth 76 incident resulted in the sinking of 503 citizens, and the loss of 527 others, 2941 was a monument of a person to travel to Iraq by gangs of young people.
Stages of the migration phenomenon in Egypt: formed in the last three decades of the last century, a crucial stage in shaping the new immigration Egyptian abroad, especially to the Mediterranean, where his record flow and broad types of migration from the south, which can be divided into three time periods are interdependent and interrelated, namely: --
* The first phase (before 1985), and this topic during the period where the European countries were in dire need of more workers from the south, and that the European countries themselves were in controlling the flow of migrants from the south through the channels of family reunification, and the most important feature of this stage immigrant southern able to understand his rights in the Nordic countries and became a calling, and was the beginning of development of the legal discourse of immigrants. On the other hand there was a great migration to the Gulf oil, which eased the burden on the European countries a large amount of Egyptian migrant, according to World Bank estimates that the number of young Egyptians who emigrated in 1975 amounted to 353,300 immigrants, while in 1980 it is estimated that the rate of migration was 803 A to include increasing the number of immigrants to Iraq, but cleared the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in 1987, he estimates the number of Egyptian migrant estimated 1.964 million people.
* The second phase (1985-1995), marked the beginning of this stage, the contradictions associated with the emergence of irregular migrants and natives, coinciding with the closing act in the coal mines of France and Belgium, which then absorbed the largest number of regular migrants. In return for this situation precautionary increased the desire of residents to migrate south towards the Nordic countries, especially in light of the end stage of the massive oil boom and the emergence of a downturn of low levels of national income in oil-producing countries, and then decreased demand for foreign labor in the Gulf States, but rates remained on the labor supply what it is, so it was natural that this increase tends to migrate to European furiously.
* The third phase (1995 - present), took this stage nature of the security firm used a country's policy approach to European security through strict implementation of the decisions "of the new law of immigration", which is based on the strict measures on the issue of family reunification, and to conclude agreements with countries of the South on the repatriation of irregular migrants. In response to this policy began what is now illegal immigration, which refer to the enrollment process in Europe without the legal and characterization of the Europeans like to do so.
Motives for migration is not organized in a package of economic factors, social and cultural rights, in addition to the change in the system of cultural and social values are allowed widespread phenomenon, and may be expected to increase during the coming period, in light of the increasing push factors for migration of these young people, both with regard to the fact that These factors made local, regional and even international.
The EU seeks to exert maximum pressure on the governments of most of the southern Mediterranean, especially Libya, Morocco and Egypt to prevent irregular migration, and Egypt was one of the most in response to these pressures, where the Egyptian authorities detained hundreds of people without charge simply because the defendants were former migrants or relatives of immigrants, and despite the resolutions of their release from the court, the Ministry of the Interior re-arrested again in flagrant violation of their rights Kvalha the Constitution and the law. In this context, called for Italy's Interior Minister on EU states to adopt a resolution providing for a cease receiving workers from outside the European Union for a period of two years, saying that such action will protect migrants in Italy and other effects of global economic crisis.
There is no doubt that such treatments and procedures lead to further deterioration of the status and rights of migrants, and was first governments of European Union countries to do more of protectionist measures to promote the rights of migrants, and the deterioration of their conditions, and to assist governments of the South to address the causes of the phenomenon of economic, social and political rather than imposing more from arbitrary actions and security.
It should be noted that the file of the beginning of irregular migration of the most thorny issues in the relationship between the EU and countries of the South, particularly the North African countries, especially Egypt, in the light of this relationship may be explained behavior is understood by the Egyptian security apparatus and young men who risked his life in search of a living Ezzat in his country. In a bid security of these devices to whitewash the face of the distinguished government to the West is arrested after Egyptian youth returning from a trip migration was successful or not, and arrest them and turning a blind eye to the real perpetrators of the boat owners and brokers who are left unpunished. It is worth mentioning that the work of the Ministry of Interior's actions against these young people is a clear violation of the Constitution because of the emergency law imposed on them by virtue of which, requires that the decisions of detention, Interior Minister personally, and not of the officer for, as well as the longer detention is a violation of the resolutions and agreements and international conventions signed by the Egyptian government, especially as the law No. 111 for 1983 is not exposed to Egyptian immigrants, or non-Egyptians, as he was not subjected to the phenomenon of irregular migration and leave the organization of the political and security considerations. At the same time, there is a legislative vacuum for crimes including smuggling and exploitation of young immigrants as there is no law or clear provisions dealing with and criminalize the perpetrators of irregular migration, and on a practical level, the procedures for dealing with those involved in these trips, whether they are victims or relatives of immigrants deported or on the go, or intermediaries, or smugglers, or the leaders of boats of fishermen, the security procedures for dealing with them marred by arbitrariness and abuse of power, the rights of these victims and the accused, but they are subject only to the practices of many of the security rights are violated and in most cases, incriminating, and the process control and bring the smugglers are also subject to the practices security are illegal, and even unethical, including arbitrary arrest and detention without the right or judgments, or fair trials. According to some reports by Egyptian security forces set the 630 unregulated immigration case, the number of defendants to about 1000 the defendant while in 2007 only, was detected for more than 50 neurotic form of smuggling of Egyptian youth abroad during the same year.
The response to irregular migration is not the responsibility of countries of the South alone alone can not guard the Mediterranean basin of infiltration that is no longer the neutralization of the population of the region, but it is primarily the responsibilities of the biggest European countries, which would circumvent or almost from its developmental role towards the Mediterranean countries and tended to modern countries belonging to the European Union or the next to it. The need to address irregular migration file can not be handled security is primarily in pursuing and arresting infiltrators, but must be the result of an inclusive dialogue and solidarity and humanitarian approach, allowing the free movement of persons and humanitarian exchange, so as not to remain trapped in the partnership of trade and goods. Partnership will continue - Euro-Mediterranean, as well as the Union for the Mediterranean - a lame and unbalanced development between the two sides as long as the average dysfunctional, and as long as development gap existing between the European part and the part the Mediterranean. The increasing number of young Egyptians drowned in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, during attempts to infiltrate into European Union member states, a file unregulated migration to focus the attention of researchers and experts, especially in light of the continuous rise in the number of victims and the inability of the Egyptian authorities to reduce the phenomenon, and the lack of adequate and accurate information necessary to develop a strategy to actively contribute to solve or reduce this phenomenon, the protection of our human waste and attrition and safeguard the dignity of our youth and our nation.
In this context, the Land Center for Human Rights seeks to convene a workshop on the 30th of September 2009 in conjunction with the Press Syndicate in its headquarters located in "Abdel Khalek Tharwat Street - Fourth floor - Cairo at exactly nine o'clock am to noon" to display examples of cases of families of the victims of illegal immigration Organization of the different governorates of Egypt in the form of an open meeting of the dozens of cases who have been subjected to arbitrary arrest by the security organs, and the detainees who had been subjected to extreme torture for confessions things they did not commit and know it's something.
The workshop will see all parties concerned with this issue from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Manpower and Immigration and the EU, hoping to reach practical solutions - in the light of local, regional and international conditions to contribute to the protection of the Egyptian youth.
Workshop Agenda
09:00 A.M. – 09:30 A.M. Registration & Acquaintance
09:30 A.M. – 11:00 A.M. First Session
testimonies of the families of the victims of irregular migration, the racism of the EU policies and the corruption of the Egyptian security bodies
Headed by Mr. Usama Bedir, LCHR Consultant
Mr. Karam Saber, Executive Manager of the LCHR
Mr. Mohamed Abdel Qudus, Head of the Freedoms Committee at the Journalists Syndicate
11:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Break
11:30 A.M. – 02:00 P.M. Second Session
Headed by Dr. Yousry Mustafa, Expert in the field of Human Rights
View of International Law on illegal migration
Dr. Abdullah Al Ashal, former assistant of the Minister of External Affairs
Views of other relevant parties
Representative of the Ministry of the Interior
Representative of the Ministry of Manpower
Embassador Abd Elkerem Ali, Head of the Migration Dep. At the Ministry of External Affairs Representative of the EU Embassador in Cairo
For more information, please contact Dr. Usama Bedir on (0104381766) or (usamabedir@yahoo.com)