Today we have something very important to present: our latest BORDER VIOLENCE SPECIAL REPORT, that you can read and download here:
Several months have passed since No Name Kitchen (NNK) decided to leave the Border Violence Monitoring Network in solidarity with the people who denounced workplace abuses. Although this was a traumatic decision —because NNK was the co-founder of this collective project —, being able to continue our monitoring and denouncing work according to our values, was also liberating. No violence should remain invisible.
Since then, at NNK we have continued to collect testimonies of border violence, giving value to every story and every nuance. However, we have also known how to pause the publications, take a step back, and analyze how we can enhance the impact of our reports in order to reach more people and generate more awareness about the illegality of what is happening. Also, about our responsibility as European citizens in what we allow or do not allow our political representatives to do.
To achieve this, we have a plan: in our reports, we are going to include testimonies of illegal pushbacks across borders, and also of rights violations perpetrated internally, in every detention camp, in every forest, in every abandoned building, widening our range of action to cover the different types of violence —administrative, psychological, physical and symbolic — that happen around the control of migratory movements.
From now on, we will go further, including a section of legal analysis in those testimonies that allow us to explain, in a simple way, why border violence is a breach of the legal, national, community and international framework; and finally, when the documentary evidence allows us, we will try to develop a medical analysis of the physical consequences caused by border violence.
ALL THE INFORMATION IS IN THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT ABOVE.
