{"id":1547,"date":"2024-06-19T17:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2024-06-19T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:03:35","slug":"statement-by-the-international-federation-of-iraqi-refugees-on-world-refugee-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/2024\/06\/19\/statement-by-the-international-federation-of-iraqi-refugees-on-world-refugee-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement\u00a0by the International\u00a0Federation\u00a0of Iraqi Refugees\u00a0on\u00a0World Refugee Day."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"moz-text-html\" lang=\"x-unicode\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>Statement\u00a0by the International\u00a0Federation\u00a0of Iraqi Refugees\u00a0on\u00a0World Refugee Day.<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">We can lead a massive humanitarian movement against war, militarism, criminality, and racism while also ensuring a peaceful future for all.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">June 20 is the\u00a0World\u00a0Refugees\u00a0Day of, which has been officially recognised by the United Nations since 1951 with the contents and principles of the resolution.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">Some countries&#8217; coast guards sink refugee boats, restrict and close borders and islands, hold refugees in camps and captivity beneath tents and plastic huts, and pass legislation to relocate refugees to remote islands. They are stationed in military stations and ships, and they are even punished as criminals. There exist agreements with authoritarian governments to forcibly deport migrants, to incite bigotry, discrimination, and insults against refugees, and to blame them for everything terrible that happens in these countries.\u00a0\u00a0These have pushed the boundaries of hypocrisy and immorality in Western countries that are supposed to be democratic and human\u00a0rights oriented. Even the United Nations and international law are no longer legitimate when member states&#8217; interests are at stake.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">This year&#8217;s World Refugee Day is being observed in a context where conflict, genocide, destruction, displacement, and homelessness have endangered the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Racism, fascism, nationalism, and political repression have become hallmarks of bourgeois governments and organisations over the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">Tens of millions of people have been forced to leave their homes and live in exile within their own countries, or to go to the West in search of security and a decent living,\u00a0because of\u00a0state and bourgeois disputes and wars.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">The Western bourgeoisie and its states, which call for human rights and democracy, are responsible for the world&#8217;s instability and destruction, which has resulted in displacement and refugees in conflict zones.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">They are using the economic crisis in their\u00a0capitalist\u00a0system to impose additional burdens on working people, such as poverty, unemployment, hunger, and the\u00a0cutback\u00a0of public and social services, under the pretext of refugee pressure\u00a0and\u00a0in order to mislead the deprived masses of their countries and turn their protests against the bourgeoisie and the authorities, as well as promote opposition and condemnation of refugees as the source of these miseries among the people! The Western bourgeoisie actively encourages racism and anti-asylum!<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">Thus, people who have suffered from years of war,\u00a0bloodshed, militarism, and persecution at the hands of bourgeois states, including the imperialist powers of the United States, European countries, and Russia, are also the sources of unemployment, criminality, and unrest!<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">As a result, the fight for the right to\u00a0live, choice of residence, and enjoyment of peaceful conditions for all people who have fled persecution, conflict, and hunger has become a legitimate struggle and the responsibility of every freedom fighter and humanitarian around the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">On World Refugee Day, the\u00a0International\u00a0Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) announces its solidarity with the world&#8217;s civilised and freedom-loving people in their efforts to put an end\u00a0to war, militarism, genocide, repression, crime, and human calamities, regardless of ethnicity or religion.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">At\u00a0the same time, it is in the forefront of all attempts to recognise the right to residency as a fundamental human right, as well as to protect the right of asylum for all those who abandon their homes in search of a quiet and dignified existence.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>No to war.<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>No to the deportation of refugees.<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>No to racism and <\/b><b><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b>conservatism<\/b><b><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">.<\/span><\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b>International\u00a0Federation of Iraqi Refugees<\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">-IFIR<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">18\/6\/2024<\/span><\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"gmail_signature\" dir=\"ltr\" data-smartmail=\"gmail_signature\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">Dashty Jamal<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">Secretary <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\">Tel:07856032991 Fax:08712664391<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.federationifir.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.federationifir.com<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement\u00a0by the International\u00a0Federation\u00a0of Iraqi Refugees\u00a0on\u00a0World Refugee Day. We can lead a massive humanitarian movement against war, militarism, criminality, and racism while also ensuring a peaceful future for all. June 20 is the\u00a0World\u00a0Refugees\u00a0Day of, which has been officially recognised by the United Nations since 1951 with the contents and principles of the resolution. 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