Solidary Wheels is based in Melilla but the #SouthernBorder of Europe includes Ceuta as well, another territory of North Africa...

Intersectional feminism, the draft trans rights law in Spain, and building a more inclusive world for trans migrants

What-Who-When-Why-How...leaving out the 6th “W” word means leaving out crucial information: Why?

The day after your 18th birthday in Melilla is the day you start living on the streets, and living on the streets means being invisible...

Violence often occurs in or around the port, where some young people we work with do “risky”.

We often observe how our presence on the ground as “third party witnesses” disturbs public servants and police officers...

You may have read in previous posts about "Plaza de Toros" and probably asked yourselves: “the bull ring? Yes, it is not a way of speaking.

A perspective on the possible impact of its application on the migratory realities of Melilla

A perspective on the possible impact of its application on the migratory realities of Melilla.

All of us, at some point in our lives, have experienced feelings of sadness, melancholy, apathy, despair or hopelessness.

In January 2020 we arrived in Melilla. At that time, we could not imagine, all that this year would give us, and all that it would take away

The most ferocious and competitive species do not survive. Those who cooperate with each other do.

On the International Day of Migrant, we are betting on the most inspiring and optimistic view.

We need to volunteer in a way that helps us, through horizontal and empathetic relationships with other people, to evolve as human beings.

Because it's violent and unfair. Because it subdues and corners. Because we want us free, rather than brave. We want us healthy and alive.

"The Law on Foreigners is always applied to them before the Law on Minors, forgetting that first they are children, before being foreigners"

His mother lives in Barcelona. But that does not give him the right to migrate safely. Whether he has documents or not.

Silence. Backpack. Folder, while he holds his breath waiting for the police to check that his documentation is in order. And it is.

Tolerance implies respect and an active fight for human rights and, there, is where Melilla shows its worse side.

Poetic conversation about the two shores that unite us.

Immigrants have to face every day their fight against aporophobia; the rejection and even hatred towards the poor and the helpless.

They walk alone, and the absence of close adult references or protection figures makes them highly vulnerable.

The mental health of minors who migrate, who are vulnerable or live on the streets, is fully overlooked and care is practically non-existent

As long as Spain continues to encourage the discourse of fear in order to promote securitisation, the right to peace will never be possible.

It's been a year since the Ombudsman recommended that Melilla must register citizens who live there, regardless of the property they live in

The street children always consider the passage of time: the time they have been in Melilla, the time locked up, the time until they can go

About the practice of "risky" or how Abdulah and so many Harraga children in Melilla challenge danger. AND LOSE.

Inside the reception centers in Melilla social distancing is impossible due to overcrowding and the conditions of facilities are unsanitary

The Amazigh, a rebellious people with a culture of their own and who deserve, like any people in this world, respect to flourish freely.

denounce the usual cruelty of border policies and the violence against people on the move as well as the institutional racism.

We denounce the criminalisation of solidarity and call for the exercise of solidarity in the defense of all people

Because of racism, it is accepted that Europe has children living in the streets, in complete helplessness, for not being white.

As much as everyone insists on this virus knowing no race, nationality or social status, discrimination can still be seen in every decision

We keep asking ourselves how it’s possible that Europe keeps silencing the realities of hundreds of thousands of people like A.

It is time to believe in change, to defend justice and to judge the global moral tendency of each treaty

SHE looked at me. She told me something like “now comes the worst part”

Incredible? Incredible resilience, incredible pride, incredible bravery?.