This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Chica Camara fled Sierra Leone but his 10-year-old son was caught and now faces the threat of violence and torture One night in March, a packed dinghy was afloat in the Mediterranean. Thirty metres ahead was a rescue ship but giving chase was a Libyan coastguard vessel. If it reached the boat it would send its passengers back to Libya and into militia-run detention centres Among them were a father and his 10-year-old son, Chica and Alfonsine Camara. The dinghy crashed into the rescue ship and dozens were thrown into the sea, Chica among them. He looked around frantically for Alfonsine, who had been at his side since leaving Sierra Leone now drifting dangerously towards the Libyans In a matter of seconds, the fates of a father and son were decided – one human drama among the thousands on the perilous sea routes to Europe Camara arrived a few days later in Palermo onboard the rescue boat “It was terrible,” Camara told the Guardian “My son and I left Sierra Leone because I wanted to give him a better future far from the violence and poverty in my country Camara began to search for his son, with the assistance of volunteers at his welcome centre in Sicily. In August came a glimmer of hope: the International Organization for Migration (IOM) had located Alfonsine in Libya. It feared for his life if he stayed there, and could not guarantee his safety for long A rescue operation in the Mediterranean in August. Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/SOS MEDITERRANEE / HANDOUT/EPAThe majority of migrants who have arrived in Italy in recent years have been granted humanitarian protection status which is valid for two years and entitles them to a residency permit and enables them to work But Camara does not yet have legal status as a refugee so cannot apply for a family reunification with his son a bill has been pushed by the far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini that would remove key protections for people like Camara and could lead to deportations According to the Italian Institute for International Political Studies which passed a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday could turn 130,000 asylum seekers currently living in Italy told the Guardian: “IOM workers in Libya are following the case the boy has no mother and perhaps no one else who can look after him in Sierra Leone “His father’s [case] will be heard by the refugee commission in early 2019 and as long as he remains an asylum seeker We are searching for the best solution for the boy and to resolve this case as soon as possible.” He is well aware of what can happen to migrants in Libya “And to think that Alfonsine is still there kills me every day.” has been patrolling the waters and stopping boats from leaving Libyan shores for Europe Amnesty International estimates that about 20,000 people were intercepted by the coastguard in 2017 and taken back to Libya Italy’s collaboration to stop migrants has been harshly criticised by human rights groups, amid allegations that it has led to grave human rights violations against those who want to cross the Mediterranean Italy’s far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini Photograph: Ettore Ferrari/EPAThe Camaras appear to be victims of the agreement In May a lawsuit was filed in the European court of human rights alleging that Italy’s work with the Libyan coastguard has subjected people “to inhumane conditions volunteers working in the welcome centre where Camara currently lives are doing everything they can to help his family reunification request “If Chica’s application is treated as a normal case Then he’ll have to secure a stable and legitimate job and demonstrate that he can support his son And years could go by before he’d be able to embrace him again,” said Fulvio Vassallo an asylum law expert at the University of Palermo “Italy needs to make all attempts possible to ascribe special status to his family reunification request A humanitarian corridor needs to be set up The child needs to be evacuated as soon as possible from Libya.” In his attempt to give his son a better life “I will never forget the look on my son’s face when the Libyans intercepted the dinghy I can still hear Alfonsine screaming for help Medievalists.net When the question of the relationship between the Cantigas de Santa Maria and Medieval Hispano-arabic music is raised the shadow of Julián Ribera’s partial musical edition of the Cantigas the Alfonsine songs are presented as derivatives of classical Arab music and transcribed according to what Ribera thought was typically Arab; as a consequence their original notation was often disregarded Ribera’s approach came under heavy criticism from professional musicologists who in his monumental work of 1943-58 buried &endash; seemingly for good &endash; the scholarly pretensions to read Arab music into the Cantigas the pro-Arab stance has therefore been confined to the performing domain as a kind of colouristic exoticism which is sometimes made vaguely respectable through mention of the Islamic instruments depicted in one of the manuscript sources of the Cantigas This tendency to value instrumental colour can be explained not only on the basis of Ribera’s claim that the repertory has an “orchestral” character but also in relation to the history of the modern “early music” movement; in actual practice instrumental colour has been served as a kind of dressing added to Anglés’s transcriptions which have been generally accepted by the performers Click here to read this article from Cobras e Son We've created a Patreon for Medievalists.net as we want to transition to a more community-funded model We aim to be the leading content provider about all things medieval podcast and Youtube page offers news and resources about the Middle Ages We hope that are our audience wants to support us so that we can further develop our podcast and remove the advertising on our platforms This will also allow our fans to get more involved in what content we do produce Member Login by /// August 31 In Emilia Romagna there are 3 labyrinths that offer their visitors a unique experience: getting lost and then finding their way inside a (un)known labyrinth If you want to understand what it’s like to “lose your compass” for a day here are 3 labyrinths in Emilia Romagna where you can indulge yourself in the adrenaline of the unknown That’s how Franco Maria Ricci tells the birth of his Labirinto della Masone A large labyrinth composed entirely of bamboo plants (totally about 200,000) from 30 cm to 15 m tall Ricci was inspired by the mosaics of the Roman villas and baths The architecture of the buildings is inspired in agreement with the Parma’s architect Pier Carlo Bontempi who made them by the great architects of the French Revolution period which reflects the personal taste of the collector and spans 5 centuries of history with works ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century shown not in the scientific order that a museum would have but rather proceeding by associations and similarities Labirinto Dedalo is located in Savio di Ravenna a few minutes from the Ravenna Riviera and inside the Po Delta Regional Park to offer its visitors a temporary escape from the modern world: a way to get closer to the nature and at the same time to play a game that can bring different emotions from the challenge with oneself to the search for conviviality at a local floriculture company since 2007 a corn labyrinth has been built in a large space inside the property It is the first “dynamic labyrinth” in the world which in 2019 was flanked by the first “ephemeral suspended labyrinth” whose path is entirely made with recycled and biodegradable material but an installation that plays with sound and transparency A project directed primarily to young people with the aim of raising awareness among the youngest toward the nature and their inner life The labyrinth is open from mid-June to mid-September and there are picnic and BBQ areas (by reservation: +39-3358335233) Social Media Manager for @inEmiliaRomagna and full-time mom by /// April 6 by /// October 24 by /// September 19 an email (in Italian) with selected contents and upcoming events For information, contact us: inemiliaromagna@aptservizi.com at UMass Memorial Medical Center – University Campus He was predeceased by his wife of 46 years FL; six grandchildren and five great grandchildren and lived in Worcester for 30 years before moving to Oxford over 50 years ago Trudeau worked at Day Paul Plastics in Worcester for 29 years he was involved in the Boys Club in Worcester He was a member of the American Legion Post 58 in Oxford and was a former member of St He enjoyed tinkering with old electronics and woodworking A memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m Burial will be at a later date at Florida Memorial Gardens in Rockledge memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association “This is a new world for me and I’m very much looking forward to it” The inaugural Newsells Park Stud – Ossie Ardiles Syndicate was recently launched in Newmarket with shareholders spending a morning with their horses and trainers watching the horses exercise on Warren Hill and a visit to the National Horse Racing Museum will have six horses in training in the care of John and Thady Gosden The horses include two exciting three-year-old fillies in Oblong Song (Roger Varian) a half-sister to Group 1 winner Spinning Queen and the Dark Angel filly Espressoo (Mark and Charlie Johnston) The four two-year-olds include three colts a Mehmas half-brother to stakes performer Alfonsine a brother to Group-winning two-year-old Illuminate and Perfect Play (Mark and Charlie Johnston) a half-brother to the high-class Ispolini from the family of Nathaniel The final juvenile is the filly Atlantic Belle (John and Thady Gosden) a half-sister to stakes performer Arctician and from the family of Lightning Spear a great football legend and syndicate lead said: “This is a new world for me and I’m very much looking forward to it making new friends and enjoying fresh experiences we have a great team together and the sport has already started.” added: “The overall aim is to offer a fun and special experience of racehorse ownership from seeing your horses in training to exciting days on the racecourse We also want the team to experience the breeding side of the business with visits to Newsells and other stud farms.” This venture marks further evolvement of Newsells Park Stud since the acquisition of the stud by Graham Smith-Bernal in 2021 Keep in touch with The Owner Breeder for exclusive stories Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper function of the website Statistics cookies collect information anonymously This information helps us to understand how our visitors use our website Content from video platforms and social media platforms is blocked by default access to those contents no longer requires manual consent access to those contents no longer requires manual consent.