People at Borders, students from Porto’s High School of Education and a group of migrants and refugees will launch an online reporting service on Tuesday to register complaints and collect testimonies.
The project began with a group of students from the Porto High School of Education and culminated in the exhibition “Us and Them,” which will also open on Tuesday at the Municipal Archives of Povoa de Varzim.
At the end of the school project, the students wanted to “do something more to make a difference” and invited Raul Manarte, the artist behind the portraits in the exhibition, to join the Humans Before Borders collective, of which he is a part.
This interaction resulted in a pilot project, which also includes a group of migrants and refugees living in Portugal, from Cape Verde, Ghana, Palestine, Syria and Ukraine and depicted in the exhibition.
In their statement, the authors justify the initiative as a response to “increasing incidents of tension, violence and negligence.” [contra migrantes e refugiados] what happened in the country.”
The Balcão de Denúncia pilot project, designed to last for six months (but which, if it receives support by the end of this period, will continue), is intended to be “a kind of public service”, providing a “permanent display of data” obtained as a result of complaints from migrants and refugees, – Raul Manarte explained to Lusa.
Through the platform, complainants will be able to freely report an incident and decide whether to do so anonymously.
At the same time, they will have to provide some data that will allow for quantitative statistics, namely about the organizations or spaces in question and the type of events (lack of information, unavailability of services, persecution, violence, etc.).
This will make it possible to “analyze patterns” to provide “a more accurate picture of the difficulties faced by migrants and refugees in Portugal,” says Raul Manarte.
The authors of the project have “two clear goals”, on the one hand, “to summarize the complaints received and turn them into public data,” namely to disseminate them through the media and social networks, and at the same time use this data. in campaigns “pressuring structures or decision-makers to take concrete steps that will reduce or eliminate confirmed cases.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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