IFIR-Eng The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees

To Watch The Med 13 people missing as boat sinks off Greek island of Paxi on 11January 2020  19January2020 Dear/Sir/Madam              The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR was contacted by the concerned families who fear that their family members may have drowned. They say they spoke to their family members one hour …

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR was contacted by the concerned families who fear that their family members may have drowned. They say they spoke to their family members one hour before they boarded a boat on the 11 January 2020, which was heading for the Italian coast.  Unfortunately the …

25 November 2019 IFIR Press Release   International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) was informed by Mr Karwan that he and his pregnant wife and two children (who are only three and one years old) have been held in Zurich airport since the 12 October 2019.  Mr Karwan is very unwell …

23 October 2019 39 bodies were found inside a truck at Waterglade Industrial Park near Grays Essex at 01.40 on Wednesday morning. The people are believed to be refugees who were seeking safety in the UK. The truck is believed to have docked in the UK at 1230am Purfleet a …

After the killing  of Osman Kosa, an employee at the Turkish consulate working at the Iran desk of Turkey’s national spy agency on 17th July 2019 in the Huqqabaz restaurant in Arbil.The security forces of Arbil are besieging the Makhmour Camp of refugees for more than a month now. 

“fight for a socialist EU with a socialist platform for Equal citizenship forevery one”  Dashty Jamal speech at protest Defend Migrants Defend free movement 4 September 2019 The working class have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got.  United action of all leading civilised countries …

INternational federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) held a seminar on the 8 August to commemorate the third anniversary of Widad Hussein’s murder.  The event was hosted by Dashty Jamal IFIR secretary.  IFIR invited two speakers from Kurdistan Diari Mhamed head of the Metro centre and Kurdish Journalist Zhalla Muhammad.

IFIR support children in refugee camps in Kurdistan  At 31 July 2019 IFIR Kurdistan Branch distributed shoes to refugee children at Arbat Camp in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. 290 children received shoes and slippers. 

On the international Day of Refugees:  20th of June has been chosen by the UN since 1951 as the International day of refugees. This year, as we commemorate this event, the world witnesses the various atrocities from which people are fleeing and end up being refugees. War, lack of security, militarised …

On the late afternoon of Friday 26th April, Kurdish police forces in the City of Raniye in the Northern city of Kurdistan was alerted by the hotel “Bethoween” about an incident. The police found Mr Afsaji’s strangled body and pronounced him dead at the scene. This tragedy happened in a time that …