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The United Nations has designated June 20 as the World Refugee Day since 1951. We are approaching World Refugee Day this year at a time when human society is going through a dangerous and difficult era. The world is in a state of turmoil. Economic and financial crises, war, militarism, …

Our struggle to stop this brutal and racist policy, continues! Our fight to stop transferring refugees to Rwanda, continues!

IFIR demonstrated with other refugee rights organisations outside the Rwandan High Commission against the Rwandan government’s shameful deal to accept deportations from the UK. The deportation flight to Rwanda scheduled for 14th June must be stopped.

30 MAY 2022 Dear representative of refugee organizations and  Human right activists!   On behalf of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) and the people detained in Harmondsworth,brockhouse and Colnbrook detention centres, I would like to thank everyone who came out today to oppose the planned deportation of Iraqi Kurds, some of whom …

To: UNHCR in Geneva, European Court of Human Rights Detention and planned removal of Kurdish asylum seekers flight to Erbil, Northern Iraq Date: 26 May 2022 Dear Sir Madam We are writing to register a formal complaint against the UK Border Agency with the UNHCR and European Court of Human …

Zaki Chalabi, a political refugee and PKK supporter, was shot and wounded in Sulaymaniyah on Tuesday evening. He died on Wednesday evening from wounds sustained in Tuesday’s gun attack. Unidentified individuals on a motorcycle fired at least four times at the Deniz restaurant in the Bakhtiari area on Tuesday night, …

A demonstration was held today (8 March 2022) in front of the KRG Office in London to mark International Women’s Day. The demands of the demonstration were: Killing women under the pretext of “honor” is a crime and the perpetrators must face the harshest punishment The Polygamy Law of the …

23rd January 2022  IFIR Press release: Urgent call to all Humanitarian and Refugee Rights Organisations to: Stop the Norwegian Government’s and other Western Government’s meeting and dealing with The Taliban  A Taliban delegation is in Norway, Oslo, and talks are planned with the Norwegian authorities and other Western Officials for …

27 November2021 IFIR PRESS RELEASE: Information has been given to the IFIR by family members living in the UK of those refugees who drowned in the English Channel on Wednesday 24 November 2021. A brother of a woman who drowned told IFIR: “Most of the victims were from Iraqi Kurdistan …

IFIR PRESS RELEASE:THE MAJORITY OF THE VICTIMS THAT DROWNED IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL ON 27 NOVEMBER ARE KURDISH – BUT FRANCE AND THE U.K. ARGUE ABOUT WHO SHOULD RESCUE REFUGEES