Faced with the advance of a “neofascist ultra-right” in the world, more than ten organizations from Latin America and Europe—from countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Chile and Italy—made public their decision to form a International Platform for Human Rights.
They all share common purposes and similar trajectories, but also, “common threats of a global nature, against which we must articulate, coordinate and support each other collectively,” they stated from the platform, through a statement.
His main concern: “The emergence of a neo-fascist extreme right in the world, whose policies cause serious setbacks in terms of democracy, human rights and social achievements“.
Consequently, they propose to meet two central objectives:
- Support the legitimate demands made by the people and their organizations in their respective territories, for the defense of human rights and the due fulfillment of the obligations contracted by the States, as a result of the subscription and ratification of international Human Rights treaties.
- Propose reforms to the system of international protection of human rights, both of the universal and regional bodies and mechanisms, that guarantee their effectiveness and guarantee their necessary autonomy, outside of all protection, the only way to meet the objectives for which they were created. created.
Carlos Margotta, president of the Chilean Human Rights Commission, emphasizes that the purpose of the platform is to be an effective system,
agile and “autonomous from any power that wants to pull the strings of this system, so that the people can come confident that,
“In the face of serious violations that occur in their respective States, they can find the response that they did not find in their own territories.”
For example, from the new international platform they declare that “the genocide that occurs today in Gaza has shown the ineffectiveness and ineffectiveness of the system, which has been incapable of stopping the ongoing barbarism.”
The idea is also to achieve a global reach and, therefore, incorporate organizations from all five continents.
“We are convinced that this platform will contribute, with its coordination and action, to the establishment of better coexistence, both in our countries and internationally, based on respect and guarantee of human rights, which allow us to achieve the full dignity of our peoples, within the framework of genuine international peace and security,” expressed the signatory organizations:
- Chilean Human Rights Commission- CCHDH (Chile)
- American Association of Jurists (AAJ)
- Research and development center for democracy-CRED (Italy)
- Mothers of Plaza de Mayo National University (Argentina)
- Assembly for Human Rights-APDH Neuquén (Argentina)
- Association for Human Rights- APRODEH (Peru)
- Territorial Social Self-Government Platform (Peru)
- American Association of Jurists (Brazil Section)
- Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights-CDH Guayaquil (Ecuador)
- Regional Human Rights Advisory Foundation-INREDH (Ecuador)
- Collective of Lawyers José Alvear Restrepo-CAJAR (Colombia)
- Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia-APDH (Bolivia)
- International Network of Chairs, Institutions and Personalities on the Study of Public Debt – RICDP (Uruguay)
- Lily Escobar, former Representative, former president of the Parlacen Human Rights Commission and signatory of the Peace Agreements (Guatemala)
It is worth mentioning that the extreme right is advancing in the European Parliament, a rise that worries people of migrant origin.
As stated newsIn France, the nationalist Rassemblement National party, led by Marine Le Pen, obtained nearly 31 percent of the vote, more than double that of the alliance of French President Emmanuel Macron, who, on the same night, After the figures were made known, he surprisingly called new elections and dissolved the National Assembly.
Thus, in France, European elections are followed by national elections. And while many people in Europe are concerned about the idea that Marine Le Pen’s party could form a government in Macron’s final two years in power, there is one group that is particularly uneasy: immigrants and their descendants.
In Germany, no party has managed to win as many votes as the Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party that the national secret services classify throughout the country as far-right and, in three eastern German states, even as extremist of the right. right confirmed. In two of these states and another a new regional parliament will be elected in the autumn, and in all three the AfD gained a clear advantage in the European elections.
Victim counseling centers and the police recently warned of a significant increase in politically motivated far-right crimes in Germany, particularly on racist and anti-Semitic grounds. After the European elections, many fear that this phenomenon is still in full swing across the continent.
Also in Austria, the result of the European elections is a test for the national elections, which will take place in the autumn. The right-wing populist party FPÖ became the largest force there, ahead of the conservative ÖVP. In Italy, the Brothers of Italy, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, obtained the most votes. In total, the extreme right-wing factions achieved a significant increase in power.