CommemorAction 2026 — International Day of Remembrance for Migrants Who Have Disappeared

For several years, on February 6th, hundreds of associations around the world have commemorated people who disappeared while seeking safety and life in less violent places. These are people whose passports have little ‘power’ in the landscape of international agreements: very few countries grant them a visa. Thus, in trying to escape violent situations, they encounter walls, police forces and militias that commit even worse violence, and often they meet death during their journey.

Their relatives, their friends, people in solidarity, the global civil network that does not resign itself to an order made of death and violence, remind us that their journey is not an individual matter but above all a struggle for the affirmation of an effective right to mobility and asylum.

LIFE IS WORTH MORE THAN WALLS AND WEAPONS

At 4:30 pm — Aula Bandiera, Via Università 12

Listening to global networks for Mobility Justice, the ParTeR group dialogues with the associations Forum Tunisien pour les Droits Économiques et Sociaux and the Association des Mères des Disparus, and with journalist Luca Attanasio.

At 6:30 pm — Portici del Grano, Piazza Garibaldi

A moment of reflection and sharing around the theme of borders and the consequences of restrictive migration policies. Words, readings, sounds, stories in a practice of commemorAction in public space — with the accompaniment of the choirs Shosholoza (Intercultural Centre of Parma) and OltreCoro.