Each year in October the Italian island of Lampedusa pauses to remember one of the century's deadliest migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea. On October 3, 2013, 368 people lost their lives when their boat sank off the coast of the Island.

This year on Sunday (September 29), students and representatives from NGOs were joined by shipwreck survivors and the families of the victims to mark the 11th anniversary of the tragedy.

Organized by a group called the October 3rd Committee, the commemoration aims to shed light on the stories and personal accounts of the event as well as promoting human rights.

'No more deaths at sea'

On Thursday October 3 in the morning, those attending the commemoration event will march from Piazza Castello to Porta d'Europa. Their message will be: "No more deaths at sea."

At Porta d'Europa, an inter-religious ceremony of remembrance will take place, followed by the placing of a wreath of flowers at sea in the place where, off the island of Conigli, the shipwreck happened.

Nearly 600 students from 12 Italian regions and six European countries will take part in the remembrance event, according to the October 3rd Committee.

"The aim is to promote in the future European generations learning opportunities to favor a culture that is open to inclusion and solidarity to offset intolerance, racism, and discrimination and promote inclusion processes that lead to the social inclusion of migrant persons," a statement from the Committee said.

"The initiatives are aimed at strengthening the awareness and knowledge of youth in formative years on topics regarding migration, global inter-dependence and human rights, cultural integration, and sheltering migrant persons, refugees and asylum seekers," it added.

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Guest performers at the four-day event include the musical group Spill Over, singer-songwriters Sandro Joyeux, Lello Analfino, and Chris Obehi, Alessandro Lenzi with the show Open, and Campo Teatrale with "Bodies that tell a story" ('Corpi che raccontano').

Also due to attend are the chief prosecutor of Gela, Salvatore Vella, the Mayor of Legnano, Lorenzo Radice, Members of the European Parliament, Marco Tarquinio and Matteo Ricci, the Vicar General of the archdiocese of Agrigento, Monsignor Giuseppe Cumbo, and the Imam of Catania, Kheit Abdelhafid.

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