{"id":1523,"date":"2024-05-26T08:19:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T08:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2024-05-26T08:19:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T08:19:19","slug":"letter-tojames-cleverly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/2024\/05\/26\/letter-tojames-cleverly\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to James Cleverly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\"><a name=\"_Hlk166816091\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>James Cleverly <\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>The Home Secretary\u00a0 <\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><b>2 Marsham Street Date:16<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><sup><b>th<\/b><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><b> May 2024<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>London<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>SW1P 4DF<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>Mr James Cleverly Stop the Rwanda Plan<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><a name=\"_heading=h.gjdgxs\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">The International Federation of Iraqi <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Refugees, the International <\/span>O<span style=\"color: #000000;\">rganisation of Iranian Refugees and the Labour Campaign for <\/span>F<span style=\"color: #000000;\">ree <\/span>M<span style=\"color: #000000;\">ovement <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">are calling for this demonstration today to protest against the plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. We are joined today by the families and children of the asylum seekers and others in Iraqi, Kurdish, Iranian, Afghani and other communities, MPs and human rights organizations.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The UK government is violently rounding up refugees to be deported to the unsafe country of Rwanda. It is trying to ban the act of <\/span>seeking refuge<span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is unacceptable that the UK Government has made an agreement with the Rwanda Government and is <\/span>playing with <span style=\"color: #000000;\">the lives of these refugees.\u00a0\u00a0The UKBA are clearly seeking to legitimize this deportation by an agreement with the Rwandan Government.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We call on you to respect the rights of all refugees, and not play with <\/span>their future at<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> a time when many refugees are <\/span>fleeing from countries plagued by <span style=\"color: #000000;\">war and violence. The UK must not put the lives of these people at risk.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">The tragedy of refugees on the borders of\u00a0Europe\u00a0and Mediterranean Sea is a direct consequence of closing borders to people whose livelihoods and place of residence have turned to battlefield, civil war, unrest and insecurity. \u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><a name=\"_heading=h.30j0zll\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">The issue of refugees and mass migration is the product of the system, crisis, and polic<\/span>ies<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> of war and genocide that the capitalists and their states follow and as a result thousands of people have been displaced. Iraqi, Kurdish, Iranian, Afghan, Ukrainian, Palestinian, and North African refugees are all victims of this system, which has left no one secure while hundreds of millions of people face starvation, poverty, unemployment, insecurity, high costs, \u0001<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">climate chang<\/span>e,<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and displacement. They endanger themselves, and their children to escape the brutality of the system.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The crisis facing refugees places a tremendous responsibility upon European governments. Whilst the UK and Europe are <\/span>talking about<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> human rights, they have provided no realistic solution to \u0001<\/span>offer safe and legal alternatives to <span style=\"color: #000000;\">the wave of refugees making the <\/span>perilous journey to <span style=\"color: #000000;\">seek safety in Europe. European countries ignore the fact that they are one of the main reasons for the catastrophes leading to the exodus <\/span>of refugees from <span style=\"color: #000000;\">the Middle East. The majority of the \u0001<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">refugees are victims of direct political and military involvement of the US and European countries. It is due to their support of inhuman and repressive systems in the Middle East which<\/span> are<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> covered with the dress of democracy. They are however nothing more than nationalist, Islamist, and murderous groups. The system that is run by these groups are taking no responsibilities <\/span>towards the livelihoods<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> of their citizens, and in reality, they have turned society into a hell of confrontations and conflicts between different religious, nationalist and Islamic groups. The reality is that they have turned the society politically and economically into an insecure and unsafe society and <\/span>have<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> left no chance for a decent living for their citizens.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are a radical <\/span>assembly <span style=\"color: #000000;\">that defends human rights and sees itself as a part of a progressive movement; it fights for the rights of refugees across the world, it works to gain solidarity from human rights organisations worldwide. As part of our responsibility we &#8211; International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR),<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> the International <\/span>O<span style=\"color: #000000;\">rganisation of Iranian Refugees and the Labour <\/span>C<span style=\"color: #000000;\">ampaign for <\/span>F<span style=\"color: #000000;\">ree Movement<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; are sending you this\u00a0letter, asking you to treat refugees in a responsible manner, and not to act in a way that ignores humanitarian considerations.<\/span><span style=\"color: #212121;\"> We strongly condemn this forced deportation by the UKBA to Rwanda. <\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"> We call on the British government to:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">Stop Rwanda Plan. <\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">Stop your agreement with Rwanda Government.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">Immediate release of all refugees in detention centres.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Give all Refugees the Right to stay in the UK.<\/span> \u0001<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>The International organisation of Iranian Refugees <\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>The Labour <\/b><\/span><b>C<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>ampaign for <\/b><\/span><b>F<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>ree Moveme<\/b><\/span><b>nt<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>s<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0Federation of Iraqi Refugees<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">Middle Eastern Women and Society Organisation <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">Kurdish And Middle Eastern Women\u2019s Organisation<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cleverly The Home Secretary\u00a0 2 Marsham Street Date:16th May 2024 London SW1P 4DF Mr James Cleverly Stop the Rwanda Plan The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, the International Organisation of Iranian Refugees and the Labour Campaign for Free Movement are calling for this demonstration today to protest against the plan to deport asylum seekers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-compaigns","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}