15 fev Manifesto Against Xenophobic Racism
News and Events | Witness Brasil“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” – Angela Davis The immigrant communities in Brazil and the Black movements in São Paulo publicly express their repudiation against the advance of barbarism and xenoracism, expressed in the murder of the young Congolese refugee Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe, and in the lack of responses from the Brazilian State. Justice and immediate reparation to immigrants, refugees and stateless persons in Brazil, migratory regularization now! According to the family and the defense, in addition to the violence that ended up with Moïse’s life, there was also an omission by the military police, the metropolitan civil guard and the Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU). Additionally, there were reports of negligence against the family of Moïse at the Legal Medical Institute (IML), including serious threats from state agents. Moïse’s death adds to other murders of immigrants motivated by ethnic-racial issues. Remember their names: João Manuel, Kerby Tingue, Fetiere Sterlin, Inolus Pierrelys, Fallow Ndack, Zulmira de Souza Borges, Toni Bernardo da Silva, and Brayan Yanarico Capcha. Besides these brutal cases that have gained prominence, oppressions experienced in the daily lives of these populations, especially by Black and ethnic migrants, is critical, as violations of rights in public services and in the work environment are recurring. The Brazilian State has been the main agent of human rights violations, with the intensification of illegal arrests, police violence, threats of deportation and expulsion, and extreme precariousness in working and housing conditions. Brazil – a signatory country of international conventions and governed by the