We Have Rights, We Weave Freedoms

| Subject: International Cooperation

Final event of the 2nd edition of the programme on refugee rights


Since January, more than 1,200 inhabitants of 10 metropolitan municipalities have participated in 80 workshops and activities highlighting refugee rights.

In spite of the rain, more than 250 people participated in this event, which had to be slightly adjusted due to the weather conditions. Saturday, 5 May, saw the closing ceremony of the second edition of the programme ‘We Have Rights, We Weave Freedoms' on the Nova Icària Beach in Barcelona, with the theme ‘our voice, our commitment'.

This entertaining and reclaiming event highlighted the work done during these months with local groups and associations, who discussed the experience and the learning that took place in the workshops. Those attending also had the opportunity to listen to the vivid testimony of a refugee, enjoy a collective performance (with the participation of the 10 municipalities involved) and dance to the rhythms of a closing musical performance by six percussion groups from Molins de Rei.

Enhancing critical awareness and a social commitment to human rights at a local level is the ultimate goal of this programme, which is part of Education for Global Citizenship in the Cooperation Plan. AMB aims to work on a joint and coordinated basis with the smallest municipalities in the Barcelona metropolis.

The event was attended by Alfred Bosch, AMB Vice-president of Area for International Relations and Cooperation; Maria Peix, AMB Head of Cooperation; Ferran Puig, Mayor of Torrelles de Llobregat, representing the ten municipalities participating in this second edition; and various political representatives from the 10 metropolitan municipalities involved (Begues, Cervelló, La Palma de Cervelló, Molins de Rei, Montcada i Reixac, El Papiol, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Sant Climent de Llobregat, Santa Coloma de Cervelló and Torrelles de Llobregat).

Txell Feixas, journalist and correspondent of TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio in Beirut, sent a message highlighting the central theme of the programme We Have Rights, We Weave Freedoms:

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