And just a few days
ago, a Swiss soccer player was expelled from the Olympics for his threatening
and racist message on Twitter about South Koreans. Michel Morganella posted
the message after playing in the 2-1 loss against South Korea on Sunday.
This is not the kind of message from a competition like Olympic Games...racism, xenophobia and intolerance must be eradicated from all areas including sport or Internet.
"You can't just cry
after every massacre and then forget the tears", the Integration Minister said.
"Tears have to become concrete commitments to fight against the sowers of
hatred."
One year ago, Norway suffered
the worst massacre since World War II. 76 people were murdered, most of them
just because their political ideas as young members of Labour Party. That’s why
some European NGOs are asking for an European Day for Victims of Hate Crimes,
in order to preserve their memory and dignity and raise awareness about
destructive capacity of those ideologies that promotes hatred and violence.
The unnamable killer is a
terrorist inspired by the ideology of intolerance. Ideas shared by a Right Wing
Extremist willing to destroy democracy and whipped out values of equality,
tolerance and diversity. They clearly intend to terminate the global Human
Rights advances.
The July 22nd hatred
motivated terrorist attack wasn´t an isolate tragedy. Another hate crime have
shocked European Society. German neo-Nazi murders scandal linked to
intelligence service, racist crimes in Italy, harassment of Roma people in
central Europe, attacks to jews and muslims, desecration of religious places
and homophobic aggressions are some examples of this wave of hate and violence
in Europe.
Europe is not very used to
remembrance however memory is more important than ever in order to preserve the
victim´s dignity. We need more commitment and determination against racism and
related intolerance. Democratic courage is required for a better struggle
against the imminent threat of poisoned extremist ideologies.. Europe assumed
values of equality, tolerance and diversity after the tragedy of Holocaust in
order to shout “never again”, these principles are in danger and that means
vulnerability for human beings.
An European
Day for Victims of Hate Crimes is part of a comprehensive strategy to defeat
ideologies that promote hatred and violence, and a way to preserve human
dignity, democratic values, and Human Rights. The July 22nd attack
was a turning point for the struggle against intolerance. The shared sorrow of
Utoya and Oslo is a call for justice emerging from an irreparable loss of human
lives. This is why ONGs are proposing to the European Parliament to set up this
European Day for Victims of Hate Crimes. Besides we encourage civil
society, institutions and citizens to support this initiative.
In Oslo, Madrid, Rome, Paris,
Warsaw, Berlin…. … July the 22nd
We don’t
event want to mention his name, privacy is a great value to protect and much
more for children. But we don’t want to miss the opportunity to show our
solidarity with him; he is only 6 years old and he already knows what means to
be discriminated and suffer homophobic hatred. Harassment, contempt and
emptiness have become part of his daily reality.
This is much
more than a simple and individual case, this is the narrative experienced by
millions of people all around the world suffering all the different levels of
homophobic perversion and hatred.
Although
homosexual marriage has been passed and it has a strong social support,
homophobia has not been defeated yet in Spain as the following data shows:
About
30% of students has carried out homophobic actions such as insults or
pejorative comments.
About
15% has thrown out objects, hit or isolated their classmates as
consequence of their sexual orientation.
Alcala de Henares Bishop should analyze the limits
of his own compassion. Superstitions, indifference to suffering and human
condition criminalization, are examples of immorality. It is easy to preach at
home while thousands of Christians are being persecuted as consequence of their
faith exactly in the same way that other thousands of human beings are being
persecuted because of their sexual orientation.
Our personal commitment with Human Rights make
us stand by all of them.
We want to express our concern about the
trivialization of this cause, because to overcome homophobia means for millions
to live or die, freedom or oppression, dignity or humiliation. Activists all
around the world are fighting every day and putting their lives at risk in
order to defend the lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals rights.
Every single day from the
beginning, Movement Against Intolerance has been active against homophobia offering
legal and social advice to victims of homophobic discrimination, preventing
homophobic attitudes at school, radio broadcasting against intolerance, working
with media, lobbying policy makers, making public demonstrations and
researching on homophobic hate crimes. We also support LGTB movement participating
in international meetings whose participant States “are not sensitive enough”
with the homophobic issue or are just homophobic.
20 June each yearis dedicated to raising awareness of
the situation of refugees throughout the world.
About 43 million people have been obligated to left their original countries as consequence of violence, threats and persecution because of their nationality, religion, race, political ideology or social group membership.
Movement Against Intolerance shares the complaint made by UNITED FOR INTERCULTURAL ACTION since 1993 about the Fatal Realities of 'Fortress Europe'.
Since then, UNITED has been monitoring the deadly results of the building of 'Fortress Europe' by making a list of the refugees and migrants who have died in their attempt of entering Europe. About 16,264 people.
Over the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar transit thousands of people each year and the resulting data are also terrible: At least 198 migrants died in 2011 in the Coasts of Andalusia.
Members of
England's European Championship squad have visited the former
Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camps. This comes as memorials and museums
marking the sites of mass killings around the world witnessed an increase in
visitors.
A delegation led
by Wayne Rooney and England manager Roy Hodgson took time out from training on
Friday to visit the notorious death camp Nazi Germany operated on Polish soil
after invading its neighbour during World War II.
Another group
headed by captain Steven Gerrard travelled to Oskar Schindler's factory in
Krakow.
The visits
received a mixed reaction from commentators, with the Daily Mirror's Oliver
Holt saying the "harrowing visit... made an extremely powerful
statement" at a time "football is wrestling with new and grave concerns
over racism among players and supporters".
But for the Daily Mail's Melanie
Phillips, it was a "deeply distasteful football PR stunt", which was "intended to cleanse the besmirched
reputation of English football".
Yet England's
players are not the first footballers to visit Auschwitz. Holland and Italy,
who are also camped in Krakow, have already been, as have representatives of
the German team.
And they join
the millions of tourists who have walked through the iron gates at Auschwitz
bearing the legend Arbeit Macht Frei (work makes you free) to pay their
respects.
Last year, a
record 1.4 million people visited the site, while Holocaust memorials all over
the world are also seeing numbers soar.
Greek prosecutors have issued an arrest
warrant for the spokesman of the far-right Golden Dawn party after he slapped a
left-wing politician in the face on live television.
Ilias Kasidiaris, who was elected to
Greece's parliament in last month's elections, was debating with two female
politicians on a chat show.
Video footage shows him throwing a glass
of water at one of the women.
When the other intervened, he slapped
her in the face three times.
Anti-immigration
Mr Kasidiaris appeared to have been
provoked when Rena Dourou of the radical left-wing Syriza party mentioned his
alleged involvement in an armed robbery in 2007.
He jumped up and threw a glass of water
across the table at her, a You Tube clip of the Antenna television channel
showed.
When Liana Kanelli of the Greek
Communist party, the KKE, apparently threw a newspaper at him, he responded by
slapping her around the face with three right-left blows.
A journalist at Antenna told the AFP
news agency that colleagues were unable to stop Mr Kasidiaris from leaving the
building.
Golden Dawn has risen in profile after
it won just under 7% of votes, or 21 seats, in parliamentary elections on 6
May.
The party's staunch anti-immigration
policy has led to accusations of racism and instigating violent attacks against
immigrants.
Golden Dawn's leader, Nikos
Michaloliakos, has also denied the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz and
questioned the Holocaust, but he rejects the label neo-Nazi.
Greece's political system has been
thrown into dissarray as the results of last month's elections failed to give
any party enough seats in parliament to form a coalition.
Another vote is due to be held on June
17 to try and end a political impasse that eurozone leaders say is harming
Greece's ability to tackle its economic crisis.
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