Happy May Day!
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF IRAQI REFUGEES
(IFIR) WISHES YOU A VERY HAPPY MAY DAY
AND SAYS
NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!
The Federation
believes that the major reason for the
displacement of people leading to millions of
people becoming refugees and asylum seekers are
Governments that drive their countries into war
without regard for the welfare, equality and
security of people.
We believe the only
way to stop problems with migration is by
establishing a borderless world where all people
live with equal rights in a peaceful and
creative environment. We believe that home is
the country where one lives and works. We
consider that human rights are universal and
they can not be limited by factors of geographic
territory, gender, culture, religion, race, age
or place of birth. Any belief or movement that
restricts human rights for reasons of racism,
fascism or cultural relative theory, is a
reactionary belief and movement that stands
against universal human rights.
The Federation is a
radical organization that defends human rights
and sees itself as a part of the socialist and
progressive movement camp; it fights for the
rights of Iraqi refugees and refugees from other
country, it works to gain solidarity from trade
unions, left, progressive organization and
refugee’s rights organization worldwide. State
persecution of Refugees and asylum seekers is a
phenomenon of modern state capitalism.
Conditions are worsening for people all over the
world. Refugees are being forced to leave their
homes and countries and claim asylum in other
countries.
Unfortunately we
also have to ask for your support to help us
stop the EU’s policy of forcible deportations to
Iraq. Several hundreds of Iraqi-Kurdish
refugees have been deported by force from the
UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark Switzerland, Belgium
in recent Years. Iraqi refugees are detained in
several EU countries and the UK. They have been
separated from their friends and families (many
have partners and children here); they are
arrested, handcuffed and put on special charter
flights that carry them to northern Iraq and
Baghdad, where they are received by KRG & Iraqi
security forces. Many of them have since
committed suicide, been kidnapped or killed in
car bombs. Others have gone into hiding or
changed their names to avoid persecution.
The Kurdistan
Regional Government, and Iraqi Government is
trading on Iraq & Kurdish refugees for financial
gains, is complicit in these tragedies and
should stop 'cooperating' with European
countries against its own people.
Defend Iraqi &
Kurdish Refugees!
IFIR struggles to
defend the rights of Iraqi and Kurdish Refugees.
IFIR believes refugees are part of the worker
class in the world. On May Day we call for the
working class to support the right of migrant
workers and refugees rights, calling for an end
to the criminalising and persecution of
refugees.
Please support
the following demands:
1. An immediate end
to the policy of enforced deportation of Kurdish
and Iraqi refugees by all European countries.
2. Require all
European governments to recognise that previous
agreements, between the Iraqi and Kurdish
government and European countries regarding the
deportation of refugees, as invalid because
their safety simply cannot be guaranteed.
3. Require the
release of all Iraqi refugees from prisons and
detention centres, who have been detained
because of illegal entry or their leave to
remain, has expired.
4. Demand that
Kurdish and Iraqi refugees, be allowed to work
to support themselves and have the right to
family reunion.
5. Those refugees
who are disabled, ill, or destitute and cannot
work should be treated with compassion.
6. Refugees who are
destitute in countries outside Europe should be
supported with health services and education or
transferred to a European country.
What you can do:
please write protest letters for your on
Government & calling on the United Nations and
the European Parliament to comply with the five
demands listed above to:
Ban Ki Moon,
Secretary General of the United Nations,
Avenue de la Paix
14, 1211 Genève 10, Switzerland Fax 022 917 00
32
European Parliament,
Correspondence with Citizens, GOL03A012,L-2929
LUXEMBOURG, Fax: (352) 43 00 27 072,Please send
IFIR a copy of your letter to
ifir@hotmail.co.uk.
Please support
our campaign by sending cheques payable to
‘Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq’ to
IFIR, PO.BOX1575, ILFORD, IG1 3BZ,
LONDON.UK
International
Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR
Coalition to stop
Deportations to Iraq-CSDIRAQ
