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A leading campaigner is to launch a pioneering human rights manifesto at 牛牛资源.

Leoluca Orlando, the Mayor of Palermo, Sicily, will present the International Human Mobility Charter of Palermo 2015 as part of his lecture entitled 鈥溾��.  

The launch is part of 牛牛资源鈥� response to the humanitarian crisis.

The charter is being presented in the UK for the first time. It calls for a fundamental change in the treatment of displaced people by allowing freedom of movement for all.

It says: 鈥淲e need to change approach: from migration as suffering to mobility as an inalienable human right.鈥�

Written in response to the ongoing refugee crisis, the charter calls for the abolition of the residence permit alongside a raft of changes in European legislation.

It calls for European law and practice to be 鈥渟ubstantially modified鈥� to help ease the suffering of refugees. This would include simplification of legislation around employment, housing, healthcare and citizenship.

It also says that recent EU proposals on allowing legal entry to 鈥渜ualified talents鈥� and the outsourcing of asylum to outside the continent 鈥渃annot be accepted鈥�.

The charter states: 鈥淢obility must be recognized as an inalienable human right.

鈥淓verything else, including the concept of 鈥榮ecurity鈥�, too many times and improperly invoked, must be coherent with this approach.鈥�

Mayor Orlando is a human rights campaigner who has worked tirelessly during his 30-year political career. During the 鈥淧alermo Spring鈥� in the 1980s, he denounced the peril represented by the mafioso economy, the channel through which the Mafia families exercised their power with the complicity of public officials, and promoted a substantial growth of the antimafia movement within the local society.

This summer the world鈥檚 attention fell on Sicily as the refugee crisis escalated 鈥� with Mayor Orlando a powerful voice advocating a pan-European humanitarian response to the issue.

Speaking ahead of the launch on 22 October in the George Wood Theatre, Mayor Orlando said:

鈥�No one can let children, women and men die in deserts or at sea for the sole reason they are born poor or in countries at war. Solidarity between individuals is an essential value for everyone who wants to continue to belong to humanity."

The 牛牛资源 event is the British launch of Orlando鈥檚 charter. The lecture is in response to the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and is chaired by Professor Anna Furse, from the Department of Theatre and Performance at 牛牛资源, with the participation of Dr Andrea Cusumano, from the Department of Theatre And Performance, who is on secondment in Sicily, in the role of Minister for Culture for the Municipality of Palermo.

Professor Furse said: 鈥淭his event marks an important moment for 牛牛资源鈥� position in relation to the current migration/refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and elsewhere in Europe.

鈥淢ayor Leoluca Orlando, a human rights activist and lawyer, is a prominent political voice not only locally but also in Europe.

鈥淐urrently, 牛牛资源 Theatre and Performance academic Dr Andrea Cusumano, himself a Palermitan, is on secondment to work with Orlando as the city鈥檚 Cultural Assessore (director).

鈥淥rlando鈥檚 visit to 牛牛资源 is therefore significant not only with regard to his position on the current EU response to migration and refugees, but also demonstrates his commitment to a cultural policy that in turn promotes his administration鈥檚 ethics and values.

鈥淚t is on his initiative that the Department for Theatre and Performance has been invited to establish a Mediterranean Centre in the City of Palermo, within the cultural complex of the Cantieri Culturali della Zisa.

鈥淚 met Mayor Orlando in the summer at a press conference to promote the 牛牛资源 Summer Intensive Performance Practices laboratory. He wasted no time in using our meeting to present his migration charter 鈥� and it was at this meeting that I invited him to come and speak at 牛牛资源.

鈥淚 am delighted that he is indeed coming to speak during his visit to the UK on his mission to disseminate his provocative ideas with regard to mobility and Human Rights.鈥�

Download International Human Mobility, Charter of Palermo 2015 as a PDF.