Advocacy Capacities twenty percent is given another form of protection (namely “subsidiary protection” and humanitarian protection), that provides shorter permit of stay. This means that the majority of these people, around the 70%, that have been staying in Italy for more than a year now, will get a refusal. “The examination process of our request for international protection is taking an unreasonable huge amount of time. We cannot live, work and move as any free individual wishes to do; also we spend our days with the constant fear of the rejection of our application. Many of us might not come from countries at war, but this does not mean we can go back to our place of origin, since we were staying in Libya for many years and we do not have any relatives or friends in our born country. They should consider this in deciding about our future”, says Ibrahim from Somalia. On these basis, a strong civil society initiative arose in order to push the government to grant to all these people escaped from the conflict in Libya, at least one year permit of stay “for humanitarian reasons”, regardless of the result of their application to get the refugee status. The campaign, called “Diritto di Scelta”, right of choice, has recently obtained the support of some institutional entities, like the region Emilia Romagna. It is time to provide a coherent and human answer to the claims of dignity of individuals whose only desire is to live their life in dignity.
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