This project has aimed at an
investigation of how the rights of migrants of different
ethnic backgrounds have been treated in a geographically
limited area during a period of time of 140 years /
throughout the last 140 years.
Our focus has been to have a closer look at how the local
population has treated the migrants and at what the migrants
actively did to integrate or at least, in times of of
evident repression, how they adapted to the new
circumstances so that they could hope to escape political
and ethnical persecution.
With regards to the future, we have tried to find out how
cities in the European Community today meet with the new
requirements that develop through migration and the
settlement of migrants and what they have learned from
history to prevent violations of human rights.
Thus it has been necessary to look at the fundamental rights
relevant for a judgement of the situation of migrants in
Porz in the last 140 years.
The validity of the different fundamental rights can be
deduced from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of
the United Nations from December, 12th, 1948 (resolution 217
A III) 1) and the Charta of Fundamental Rights of
the European Union.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains 30
articles, the Charta of Fundamental Rights 54 articles.2)
As the Charta and its preamble is more effectively
coordinated with the needs of the citizens regarding the
time and the concrete demands, we have decided to follow the
Charta in our research / texts.3) For the
first time, a single document brings together all of the
rights previously to be found in a variety of legislative
instruments, such as national laws and international
conventions from the Council of Europe,the United Nations
and the International Labour Organisation. By making
fundamental rights clearer and more visible, the Charter
helps to develop the concept of citizenship of the European
Union and to create an area of freedom, security and justice.
In the draft of the Charta from May, 22th, 2005 the Society
for Threatened People International has made clear theat all
our considerations need to focus on an effective protection
of minorities in future chartas of the European Union.
These are the direct links to
our research.4)
Sources:
1)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December
1948
(General Assembly resolution 217 A (III))
Get the details here [pdf].
2)
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European
Union: Official
Journal of the European Communities, 18.12.2000, C 364,
P. 8
Get the details here [pdf]Download.
3) Draft Charter of Fundamental
Rights of the European Union:
Society for Threatened Peoples International:
Towards the effective protection of minorities in the
EU ’s future
Charter on Fundamental Rights
Get the details here [pdf].
Zur Rolle des Minderheitenschutzes hier klicken.
4)
Read more about the history of the Charter of
Fundamental
Rights of the European Union:
Get the details here [German, pdf].
Get the details here [pdf].
