Matache Margareta
Instructor and Director of the Roma Program at Harvard University
Cambridge | United States
Biography
Speaker session
High Level Panel Session:
Enhancing participation of racialised youth in the fight against racism and discrimination
The aim of the panel is to make visible the important role young people, and racialised youth in particular, can play in combating racism and discrimination. The Commission together with the Member States collected young Europeans’ voices through the EU youth dialogue process, which led to 11 European youth goals. These present a vision for a Europe that enables young people to realise their full potential, promote equality and inclusive societies.
Based on the European youth goals and their targets, the panel session also aims at having panelists reflect on preliminary recommendations gathered from racialised youth and anti-racism organisations that would then be further developed in consultations with different stakeholders, and feed into the implementation of action plans against racism at national and local level. These recommendations could also inform how to move the ARAP implementation forward linking it to the European Year of the Youth and the Conference for the Future of Europe, and how specific issues could be tackled.
Output: Youth Recommendations from racialised youth and anti-racism CSO’s and grassroots organisations to be included in the general report for the Summit and in its follow-up policy brief.
Scene setting: Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth
Panellists:
- Niki Kerameus, Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece
- Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human sciences, UNESCO
- Evin Incir, Member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Sweden
- Celine Fabrequette, Managing Director, Diaspora Vote, Belgium
- Santiago Mbanda Lima, Artivist, intersex and anti-racist activist, Angola/Portugal
Discussion in plenary with interventions from participants.
Mbanda Lima Santiago
Artivist, intersex and anti-racist activist
Viseu | Portugal
Biography
Santiago Mbanda Lima was born in 1989 in Viseu, Portugal. He is an activist for intersex rights, antiracism and intersectionality since he was 19 years old. In 2011, Santiago co-founded Action for Identity (Ação Pela Identidade) in Portugal. His work comes from a combination of political interventions and artivism. He co-organized a Parliament hearing in 2015 where he came out becoming the first intersex person to do so in Portugal, following major media and TV coverage nationally and abroad. He has worked with the Portuguese Government as an expert to legislation, public policies, campaigns as well as with Governmental and non-governmental organizations always with the same goals internationally.
Santiago started a writer's blog in 2006 leading him to be called a Poet of Feminism and Anti-racism later on by a major national newspaper; and also his writtings being studied at Universities outside Portugal - all because of his light upon intersectionality as a black angolan-portuguese intersex man.
Organisation
Action for Identity - Ação Pela Identidade
NGO
Action for Identity (Ação Pela Identidade) was founded in 2011 and bases it's work on four main words: Intersex; Anti-racism; Intersectionality and Transfeminism. API was founded by trans and intersex people with intersectional identities, being the only one still in Portugal to work this way. Action for Identity reach and advocacy allowed the new legislation on Gender, Gender Expression Selfdetermination and the Protection of Sex Charactheristics (Law 38/2018) to be implemented in Portugal.
Speaker session
High Level Panel Session:
Enhancing participation of racialised youth in the fight against racism and discrimination
The aim of the panel is to make visible the important role young people, and racialised youth in particular, can play in combating racism and discrimination. The Commission together with the Member States collected young Europeans’ voices through the EU youth dialogue process, which led to 11 European youth goals. These present a vision for a Europe that enables young people to realise their full potential, promote equality and inclusive societies.
Based on the European youth goals and their targets, the panel session also aims at having panelists reflect on preliminary recommendations gathered from racialised youth and anti-racism organisations that would then be further developed in consultations with different stakeholders, and feed into the implementation of action plans against racism at national and local level. These recommendations could also inform how to move the ARAP implementation forward linking it to the European Year of the Youth and the Conference for the Future of Europe, and how specific issues could be tackled.
Output: Youth Recommendations from racialised youth and anti-racism CSO’s and grassroots organisations to be included in the general report for the Summit and in its follow-up policy brief.
Scene setting: Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth
Panellists:
- Niki Kerameus, Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece
- Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human sciences, UNESCO
- Evin Incir, Member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Sweden
- Celine Fabrequette, Managing Director, Diaspora Vote, Belgium
- Santiago Mbanda Lima, Artivist, intersex and anti-racist activist, Angola/Portugal
Discussion in plenary with interventions from participants.
Mihalache Isabela
Senior Advocacy Officer at European Roma Grassroots Networks
Biography
Isabela Mihalache is a Senior Advocacy Officer at European Roma Grassroots Networks since January 2020, where she focuses on mainstreaming the fight against antigypsyism as well as broader racism in EU policies, standards and funding and is supporting the active participation of Roma CSOs from grassroots, national and European level in the design, implementation and monitoring of relevant policies for Roma. Before joining ERGO, she worked with the Council of Europe, the European Network Against Racism, European Roma Rights Centre and Open Society Foundations on addressing human rights violations and racism against Roma and other racialised groups.
Speaker session
High Level Panel Session:
Enhancing participation of racialised youth in the fight against racism and discrimination
The aim of the panel is to make visible the important role young people, and racialised youth in particular, can play in combating racism and discrimination. The Commission together with the Member States collected young Europeans’ voices through the EU youth dialogue process, which led to 11 European youth goals. These present a vision for a Europe that enables young people to realise their full potential, promote equality and inclusive societies.
Based on the European youth goals and their targets, the panel session also aims at having panelists reflect on preliminary recommendations gathered from racialised youth and anti-racism organisations that would then be further developed in consultations with different stakeholders, and feed into the implementation of action plans against racism at national and local level. These recommendations could also inform how to move the ARAP implementation forward linking it to the European Year of the Youth and the Conference for the Future of Europe, and how specific issues could be tackled.
Output: Youth Recommendations from racialised youth and anti-racism CSO’s and grassroots organisations to be included in the general report for the Summit and in its follow-up policy brief.
Scene setting: Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth
Panellists:
- Niki Kerameus, Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece
- Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human sciences, UNESCO
- Evin Incir, Member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Sweden
- Celine Fabrequette, Managing Director, Diaspora Vote, Belgium
- Santiago Mbanda Lima, Artivist, intersex and anti-racist activist, Angola/Portugal
Discussion in plenary with interventions from participants.