The Consell Insular de Menorca (CIM) presents the video “Talayots for Human Rights 2022” about the Talayot lighting ceremony for Human Rights that took place on January 15, when 28 Menorcan talayots were lit. This was the fourth edition of this event in Menorca, an initiative of the Consell Insular de Mallorca. The main event took place at the Son Catlar site (Ciutadella), including the reading of a manifesto and a rendition of the song Ítaca by Lluís Llach.
“We need light and we need horizons and watchtowers, we need a direction. In 2021, a total of 4,404 people died on the West African border, which is equivalent to the entire population of Ferreries”, as manifested by Marga Benejam, director of Fons Menorquí de Cooperació, in this audiovisual piece produced by Bendito Films. Her words and the opinions of Carlos López, from Escoltas de Menorca, and Biel Olivar of Amnesty International Menorca, are the highlights of the audiovisual summary of this year's event. The video, in its three versions (Catalan, Spanish and English), will be distributed through the different institutional networks of the CIM, Talayotic Menorca and Menorca Illa de Cultura.
The objective of «Towers, watchtowers and talayots of the Mediterranean. A cry for Human Rights» is twofold: to sensitize citizens about the drama suffered by migrants in the Mediterranean; and within the framework of Talayotic Menorca’s candidacy as a World Heritage Site, to recreate what might have been the means of communication between talayotic settlements in prehistoric times, when movement across the Mediterranean was already commonplace.