Bolivia: Final statement of the World Conference of the Peoples “For a World Without Borders towards Universal Citizenship”
June 24, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Dawn News — This is the final statement of the
World Conference of the Peoples For a World Without Borders towards
Universal Citizenship, which took place at Tiquipaya, 400 kilometers
from La Paz between June 19-20:Social movements, citizens of the
world, gathered in Tiquipaya, after listening the testimonies of
migrants and refugees and debating collectively from our historical
memory and the plurality of our identities, we approved the following
Statement, with the purpose to manifest our vision and proposals to the
States and the International Community in relation to the so called
Migrational Crisis.We, the peoples of the world are
aware of the necessity to keep thrusting with bigger strength a new
world order, with the following characteristics:The establishment of complementarity,
equity and solidarity relationships among persons and peoples; the
recognition and universalization of access to basic services and
fundamental rights, which can not be an object of profit and speculation
of private groups.A wider citizen participation in the
elaboration and implementation of the public policies transcending
oligarchies, dynasties, monarchies and other forms of political
hierarchies.A new international financial
architecture, where multilateral organisms do not exist at the service
of the transnational capital and guarantees the social property of the
natural resources.The harmonious convivence with Mother
Earth and the respect of its rights; assuming that nature can live
without human beings, but human beings cannot live without her,
violating its rights and destroying the habitat.The construction of a true lasting
peace, which is not just the absence of bellicose conflicts, but also
the superation of the structural violence traduced in the equal access
to wealth and development opportunities.We have verified as main causes of
this crisis the bellicose conflicts and military interventions, climate
change and the huge economic asymmetries between the States and in the
interior of them. These destructive situations have their origin in the
dominant world order, which generates violence, promotes inequalities,
and destroys Mother Earth while searching for profit and resources. The
migratory crisis is one of the manifestations of the integral crisis of
the neoliberal globalization.Human mobility is a right rooted in
the essence of equality of the human being. However, for most of the
cases, it does not respond to a volunteer decision of the peoples but to
necessity situations that get to the extreme of a forced migration. To
the pain of uprooting the situations of injustice, exclusion,
discrimination and exploitation that the persons in transit suffer are
added, and of course the attacks on their dignity, their elemental human
rights, and against their own lives which they suffer from the receptor
countries.The hegemonic speeches, dominated by
the multinational media corporations, promote a negative vision of
migrants, hiding the contributions these make in economic, demographic
and socio cultural terms to the receptor countries. We look upon with
great concern the advancement of neocolonial, intolerant and xenophobic
positions which infringe the cooperation between Peoples and constitute
a great menace to global peace. Paradoxically, these positions are
sustained from the centers of global power, main responsibles of the
structural violence, the global inequality and climate change, in
detriment of the creditors of the social and environmental debt: the
poor peoples. This is why, that form the social
basis we promote the following agenda of proposals to collapse the walls
that divide us and build from there a Universal Citizenship, which
devotes the right of all to have and enjoy in plenitude the same rights,
for the good living of humanity.1) To overcome the hegemonic
perspective of migratory policy which raises an administration of
migrations in a “regular, safe and orderly” way, for a humanist vision
that allows to “receive, protect, promote and integrate” the migratory
people. 2) To reject the criminalization of
migrants which covers the fake focuses made on security and control. In
particular, we demand the elimination of the “migrant detainee
centers”. Demanding the destruction of
physical walls that divide the peoples; invisible legal walls which
pursue and criminalize; mental walls which use fear, discrimination and
xenophobia to divide ourselves among brothers. In the same way, we
denounce the media walls that stigmatize or disqualify migrants, and we
aim to promote the creation of alternative media channels. 3) To create a World Public
Defensor of the Peoples for the Rights of migrant, refugee and traffic
victim persons, among others, which promotes free mobility and human
rights. We request to the people and
government of Bolivia, to manage the creation of a secretary of
coordination to make effective the fulfillment of the resolutions inside
this Statement of the World Conference of the Peoples.4) To demand to the governments the
creation or strengthening of Regional Citizenships that allow inter
regional movement and the plain exercise of their rights, as a first
step towards a universal citizenship. 5) To demand that the public
expenses aimed to war and migrant criminalization, are to be used for
the creation of integration programs, which guarantee the plain exercise
of the migrants people’s rights. 6) To thrust local policies which
allow more integrative cities and societies, where migrants are
effectively included in the society, with access to a house, health,
education, social security, and under the principles of complementarity,
solidarity, brotherhood and diversity. 7) To convoke all the governments
of the world to fight in a joint way against the criminal networks that
traffic human beings, and declaring human trafficking and slave
trafficking as crimes against humanity. 8) To update, strengthen and
advance on the multilateral system and its international tools referred
to migrant, refugees and their families, and in special: a) the “International Convention
on rights protection of all migrant workers and their families”, since
it has not been ratified by any Northern migrant receptor country.b) the Convention on the Statute
of ACNUR Refugees and adding new conceptions that refer to displaced
person and climate refugees.c) to participate actively in the negotiation of the World Pact to be celebrated in 2018 at the United Nations.d) claiming in the General
Assembly of the United Nations the International Decade for a World
Without Borders towards Universal Citizenship. 9) To overcome the “rigid
frontiers” tactic, for a vision that understands frontiers as bridges of
integration for the unity among peoples and the welcome of refugees,
where the struggle against transnational organized crime is faced from a
cooperation context between states. To boost the right living in the
places of origin of the migrant people, so that mobility is always
volunteer and not forced as an effect of poverty, violence and climate
change, denouncing the irresponsible actions of the multinational
companies, and applying sanctions to those that impinge against the
permanency of the families in their place of origin. 10) To promote the popular
mobilization in a global scale, so that the inalienable character of the
rights of persons in transit is recognized in the intra and
international instances, so that walls, blockades and interventions,
that the powerful raise unilaterally to perpetuate inequality and social
injustice.
