Press Release

Human Dignity and Human Rights of Refugees

A debate to improve clarity and promote social inclusion

 

 

 

The UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, Rome, in collaboration with the Scalabrini international Migration Institute (SIMI) and other institutions, has organized a day dedicated to a debate on “Human Dignity and Human Rights of Refugees” within the project “Europe Citizens for Solidarity”- Eurosol, financed under the Europe For Citizens Programme of the European Commission, in Rome November 27. The public forum will be held at Aula Master dell’Università Europea di Roma e dell’Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum, Via degli Aldobrandeschi, 190 from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm.

 

The forum will be divided into three sessions; each session will discuss a subject linked to the refugees’ situation from a bioethical and human rights perspective. The first session will be dedicated to Refugees: Threat or Opportunity? Context, Causes and Perspectives. The Refugees’ Situation: The Voice of the Protagonists, with the intervention of Fr. Aldo Skoda, Director of SIMI, followed by Rights and Duties of the Refugee from a Bioethics Perspective, and concluding with Refugee’s Integration from an Intercultural and Religious Perspective.

 

The forum’s objective is to promote intercultural dialogue and to find creative solutions and proposals by sharing knowledge and competency. Experts, refugees, migrants, politicians interested in the current challenge will be the protagonists of this debate. Among the authorities present will be the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human rights Director, Dr. Alberto Garcia, SIMI’s Director, Fr. Aldo Skoda, Giorgio de Acutis of the Italian Red Cross – Comitato Area Metropolitana di Roma Capitale (Area sociale), and Dr. Veronica Roldan expert in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research.

Moreover, international organization, such as Fundación Altius Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain Dirección General de Servicios Sociales de Integración Social, Madrid, Spain BIDA e V. Kultur und Bildung, Suhl, Germany Erevnitiko Idrima P.L. Nicosia, Cyprus, European Information Centre, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, Stowarzyszenie B-4, Rzeszòw, Poland, Viesoji istaiga Vilniaus Verslo Kolegija, Vilnius, Lithuania, Diagrama Foundation Psychosocial Intervention, Dunstable, United Kingdom will take part in the forum.

For details visit:
www.unescobiochair.org

For further information and to sign-up send an email to:
info@unescobiochair.org

 

Ateneo Regina Apostolorum – Ufficio Stampa

Michela Coluzzi – mcoluzzi@upra.org

Università Europea di Roma – Ufficio Stampa

Carlo Climati – carlo.climati@unier.it

Via degli Aldobrandeschi, 190 – 00163, Roma

06665431

 

Missionari Scalabriniani  – Ufficio Stampa

Via Dandolo, 58 – 00153, Roma

beltramigabriele@scalabrini.net

+39.3280948221

 

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09:40 Welcome and Registration

09:50 Official photo: authorities and special guests

10:00 Event Opening

10:05 Dr. Alberto García, UNESCO Chair Director’s speech

10:15 Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum Representative’s Speech, Fr. José Oyarzún, L.C.

10:25 Fundación Altius Francisco de Vitoria Director’s Speech Clara Ubeda

10:35 First Conference “THE REFUGEES’ CONDITION: CONTEXT, CAUSES AND PRESPECTIVES,” P. Aldo Skoda, CS

10:55 Debate among students and final evaluation by the speaker

11:35 Official photo # 1 – Coffee break

11:45 Second Conference “REFUGEES’ SITUATION: THE VOICE OF THE PROTAGONISTS” Italian Red Cross, Dr. Giorgio de Acutis

12:45 Conference ending and official photo # 2 – Recognition # 2

12:55 Third Conference “RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE REFUGEE FROM A BIOETHICS PRESPECTIVE,” Dr. Alberto García.

13:15 Debate among students and final evaluation by the speaker.

13:55 Official photo # 3 – Recognition # 3

14:05 Lunch “Migrants’ Specialties”

14:55 Explanation of the photograph panel “The Refugees’ Travel”

15:05 Explanation of the Fasasi’s exhibition and Migrants’ Empanadas

15:25 Fourth Conference – “REFUGEE’S INTEGRATION FROM AN INTERCULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS PRESPECTIVE,” Dr. Verónica Roldan.

15:50 Debate among students and final evaluation by the speaker

16:30 Official photo # 4 – Recognition # 4 / Coffee break

16:35 Cultural Event

17:15 Distribution of the certificates to students

17:20 Closing Event