IndieWatch
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Mission Statement
IndieWatch is an NGO that operates in rightsâ protection and promotion through research, communication activities, studies, training, consulting and project development. Nowadays IndieWatch is particularly engaged on issues related to human mobility and migration, considered the main scene of the actual enforceability of rights. The intent is to deconstruct the phenomenon to understand and predict actions in the interests of the people, ensuring the protection and promotion of human and individual rights, beyond the concepts of citizenship and national belonging. IndieWatch is research in action, legal support, cultural mediation, training, consulting, social planning, methodological supervision and communication. Studies, training and projects will be conducted with an interdisciplinary approach that already characterizes the team. It is an organizational and operational mode chosen to meet the challenges of the present, and necessary to read the complexity and thus provide a contribution both to the scientific debate and to the choices of social and cultural policies made by the institutions. When it is logical and functional, the research activity has as its final objective the action and it is functional to the realization of pilot lawsuits aimed at combating practices and illegal procedures and violations of rights affecting significantly the life of people, trying to widen the meshes of some policies also through the persuasive force of the law.
About This Cause
Third partiesâ projects From April 2017 Support to project designing for several organizations with different issues. Specifically, IW has wrote several project proposals about: sport and inclusion, gender-based violence and trafficking, support for migrant citizensâ autonomy, intercultural society. Ad hoc projects From June 2020 âCasa dei Venti: support and direct assistance to refugees and asylum seekersâ project (scheduled kickoff, June 2020) The project â led by Laboratorio 53 Onlus - aims to set up an experimental day-care center intended for the welcoming and caring of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, and victims of torture: an integrated welcoming space, designed to delivery direct assistance services and to implement empowering paths, promoting social inclusion, active participation and the exercise of citizenship rights. In this project plan IW will be responsible of a research work and subsequent publication of a report about COI - Country of Origin Information â dealing with 4 countries of origin, with in-depth analysis on the health system in relation to the new type of residence permit for medical treatment. This represents a pilot component that is intended to be experimented in order to leverage on a new conception of social research that has target people protagonism as the founding element of the research itself. If not immediately dialogical, however the investigation will be informed by the dialogue with the beneficiary / expert, according to a participatory approach. In the survey will combine documents analysis and qualitative research through focus groups. The two processes will feed on each other with essential elements: "knowing what is already known" (desk research) as a precondition for effective qualitative analysis work, essential to test the correspondence between the initial hypothesis and the final thesis, and therefore the distance between the ideal, the theoretical and the real, what is really experienced by people in the contexts of origin too. The âCasa dei ventiâ project was awarded with a funding by U.B.I. (Unione Buddhista Italiana â Italian Buddhist Union) under 8x1000 fund. From May 2020 âFino a prova contraria - Until proven otherwise" project (scheduled kick off, May 2020) The "Until proven otherwise" project intends to link legal operators and cultural mediators and law firms and professionals assisting migrants, to tackle the structural discrimination within the prison system and weaknesses in reception services. After a specialist training and the selection of cultural mediators, the team (in coordination with the lawyers) will support the beneficiaries in asylum (preparation for the hearing in Territorial Commission for the international protection recognition and for the appeals against TC decisions) or in the judicial process to try to guarantee the effectiveness of the right of defense and the access to asylum procedures. The activities will take place off-site and with a fixed garrison where the people followed will be welcomed. An anthropologist will conduct an investigation for the modeling of the intervention and its future replicability, and in order to assess the possibility of strategic litigations with the scientific coordinator (jurist). A specific follow up of the assisted persons will be guaranteed to encourage re-education / reintegration / integration. The "Until proven otherwise" project, led by Associazione ColtivAzione, was awarded with a funding by U.B.I. (Unione Buddhista Italiana â Italian Buddhist Union) under 8x1000 fund. From March 2020 Ekoub: IndieWatch launches a solidarity initiative in âCOVID-19 emergency eraâ, an attempt to share with those who have less chance. Not a form of assistance, but a new way of sharing and, hopefully, of living together. IW launches a small and banal form of solidarity, Ekoub, to try to support those who actually, in addition to the problems shared with the whole population, must address issues of an economic nature relating to primary needs too. Ekoub is the furthest thing from almsgiving. Ekoub, in Eritrea and Ethiopia is an exchange, a system based on trust, mutual help and reciprocity. Ekoub is one of the community systems to save and redistribute money that we have known thanks to the meetings of years of work and to the friends who still accompany us today. Ekoub is a local group with solidarity ties. January 2019 - February 2020 In limine: a network of legal hubs Support and ad hoc assistance to ASGI in In Limine: a network of legal hubs (as determined by a MoU) funded by Open Society Foundation. In Limine is a project led by ASGI (Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration) addressing issues relating to borders control and access to international protection. The project aims to build up strategies to report and fight policies and practices that infringe rights and freedoms of foreign nationals arriving in Italy. The aim will be pursued by gathering information on the field and setting up strategic litigations and advocacy plans. A team of legal workers and cultural mediators will work in Sicily, mainly in Pozzallo, Trapani, Caltanissetta and Lampedusa, implementing the project activities. The project also aims to provide a wide vision of border policies and management by analyzing and interpreting in a systematic way legal provisions and their complex and dynamic relation with the society and the public opinion. Law No. 132/2018, converting Decree Law No. 113/2018 (the so-called immigration and security decree), introduced a disturbing range of new provisions. In this historical phase, it is considered necessary, in order to properly face the situation, to design the project as a progressive action, open to the participation of other organizations and associations of civil society. In Limine project, pursuing this objective, wants to enhance the creation of networks and other forms of cooperation that, maintaining a strict scientific and operative link, may lead to a propagation of similar experiences in border areas, tackling in a more effective way violations of migrants rights and policies of criminalization of migration. Education and Trainings November 2018 and January 2019 Training within the "Advanced training course for legal operators specialized in international protection" run by the associations ASGI and Spazi Circolari, with the following interventions: ⢠Preparation for the hearing with the Territorial Commission. Building and deconstructing the victim role: prospects and precautions for the legal operator. ⢠The cultural mediator: communication facilitator between stereotypes and prejudices. The negotiation of cultural mediation and the work with the legal operator ⢠Reception system in emergency Research & reports March 2020 Collaboration in drafting and disseminating the report: âShadow at the border: Informal detention and selection policies for foreign citizensâ. The border areas are places of paramount importance for migration policies: due to their isolation, they are affected by testing informal procedures to encourage the rejection of entering people. Insulation allows the application of regulatory hypotheses that present broad profiles of incompatibility with constitutional and European Community rules too. Over the past two years the In Limine project has analyzed what is happening in these places, with particular attention to informal selection and detention policies aimed at hindering the entry and possible acquisition of a residence permit by the Foreign citizens. This report proposes a critical survey of regulatory experiments and informal practices observed at the borders and of the tools activated to protect citizens foreigners in the new legal context. Start up and consulting From April 2017 Training support, supervision, consultancy and "start up" to reception, social inclusion and intercultural projects, aimed at migrant citizens who are applicants and holders of international protection present in the national territory, especially hosted in the SPRAR system (now SIPROIMI). Intercultural actions 2019-2020 Cultural Mediation service @ Well©home (soc. coop. Idea Prisma 82, managing body). For IndieWatch, migrants are not "objects of study", nor "project targets", but people who bring culture and rights, endowed with a political subjectivity that must be recognized and fed, supported towards a full participation in citizenship, so that it is guaranteed an effective, concrete and active social inclusion. In this sense, the presence of cultural mediators in our team is of particular value and importance. The mediation interventions had the objective of supporting the Well©home center staff: - in the insertion of new guests in the structure; - in the resolution of health issues; - in guidance services; - in the interviews with the legal consultants of the center. 2019 Supporting reception community Well©home (managing body Idea Prisma 82): ⢠Organization and conduct of thematic meetings (health, gender, childhood, parenting) with social operators and guests ⢠Organization and conduct of a meeting dedicated to guests, on the topic of school placement and parenting in Italy. ⢠Collaboration in the organization of the world refugee day 2019 Supporting association ARCI Roma: meeting moderation on health and migration 2019 Intercultural childcare service @ Well©home. The presence of young children often undermines the participation of women of the Well©home community in the proposed activities and therefore in their empowerment and self-determination too. At the same time, it is necessary to provide intercultural childcare in order to therefore accompany both the mother and the child with a gradual understanding of our society and the dynamics that affect the family (school placement, different educational models, etc) fostering real social inclusion. 2018 Cultural Mediation service on behalf of ActionAid Italy Cultural mediation service provided on behalf of ActionAid Italy, within the pilote project In Limine. Mainly remotely (and where possible / necessary on the field).