Training
Conferences
I European Forum on freedom of expression
On June 10, 2015 at the Madrid Headquarters of the European Commission, the International Miraism Association held the I European Forum on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Expression, an event that brought together a large group of experts, religious denominations and communicators.
The meeting began with the greeting of Mr. Juergen Foecking, deputy director of the European Commission, giving way to the opening conference by Mr. Enrique Montes, president of the Miraísmo Association, host organization of the event. In his intervention called "The balance of rights: the path towards coexistence with respect" Mr. Montes highlighted that: "It is time to continue articulating all the actors of civil society in this purpose. To promote a culture of respect for the identity of others from educational settings; "to involve all community and political sectors so that, from their powers, they promote social control and promote scenarios, not only of recognition, but of defense towards those who see their rights violated due to their religious sentiment."
Debates around the Mediterranean
In 1995, the Euro-Mediterranean Foreign Affairs Conference in Barcelona launched an ambitious program of cooperation between the countries of the European Union and those on the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean, in order to create an area of stability and peace, of shared progress and of dialogue between peoples and cultures.
25 years after that initiative in 2020, at Tres Culturas we want to evaluate the issue to assess where more persistent action is required and where favorable progress is being made and examples of good practices can be obtained.
Based on the debate raised in five round tables on topics that affect migration issues, female empowerment, labor market and youth, education and research and sustainable development, the aim will be to contribute to the Mediterranean becoming an area of stability, progress and fruitful dialogue.
This activity, subsidized by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Government of Spain, is part of the various activities carried out for the study, analysis and execution of the priorities of Spanish foreign policy.
In the fourth panel of the cycle, 'Debates around the Mediterranean: session on women's empowerment' I participated with Awatef Ketiti, professor and researcher at the Audiovisual Communication and Advertising Teaching Unit of the University of Valencia.
Journeys
Consumeralia
Consumeralia Consumer Fair, organizes the conferences for the Intelligent Consumer, a meeting point between the consumer and the company. In 2016 I had the opportunity to be invited to this project to talk about consumer information, between knowledge and propaganda. I participated in the conference: Who informs citizens? Consumer offices, associations or journalists. “Before you buy, you better be informed.”
This project pays tribute to World Consumer Day, to be celebrated on March 15. Its organization runs hand in hand with Ausbanc, which has been dedicated to it for more than ten years. The responsibility of reporting is shared between consumer offices, associations and journalists, but we should go a little further. We are broadcast media, we are lucky to reach a greater number of people. Even those who, in their own way, are not associated or are usually attentive to this type of information.
As journalists we have the obligation to be up to date with the different information about the rights we have as consumers and transmit it in a way that is easy to understand, exercise the public service to which we owe...providing telephone numbers, contacts and giving the data and counting. the initiatives that arise from associations and that can be useful to us.
As consumers, if we organize well and come together, we have the power to demand and change the policies of businesses, laws, etc. IN FIRST PERSON I like to present, promote, talk about another type of more responsible consumption, fair trade, ecological and local trade, about renewable energies.
The history of the Gypsy people has ranged from the most direct persecution to the most subtle discrimination. This rejection has also been reflected in the academic and scientific world, so that it has not been an object of study of special interest in these fields. Both in the compulsory educational stages and in higher and university training, Gypsy Culture is a “pending subject”. Something strange especially in university courses in the social field, whose students will end up becoming professionals who probably intervene or deal with the Roma population throughout their work and/or academic career.
Therefore, and just now that stereotypes and prejudices about the Roma idiosyncrasy are still very present, aggravated by the racist waves and hate speech that are resurfacing in Europe, FAKALI, the Federation of Roma Women's Associations, and AMURADI, the Association of University Gypsy Women, are once again committed to counteracting and replacing these negative and simplistic ideas with formal, academic, serious and contrasted knowledge of this social group. All with a view to its observation as a source of constructive information regarding the knowledge and conceptualization of Gypsy culture, capable of making visible positive and reference models and innovating through the introduction of an avant-garde and critical Gypsy social perspective.
This pioneering initiative, born from the commitment to disseminate a dignified image of the Gypsy community, is materialized for the fifth consecutive year in the course “Gypsy Society and Community in the 21st Century.” For this I made a series of reports from the gypsy community in my program “In First Person”.
