Happy May Day

STOP FORCIBLE DEPORTATIONS TO IRAQ
DEFEND IRAQI AND KURDISH REFUGEES AGAINST RACIST POLICIES

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL

International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) wishes you a very Happy May Day!  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, Germany and Switzerland in recent months. Another charter flight is planned by the UK Government for the beginning of next week.  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, where they are received by KRG 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.

Letter from South Yorkshire Migration & Asylum Action Group to Ban Ki moon  Secretary General of the United Nations

Dear Secretary General

It is unfortunate that I must write to you about my Government’s treatment of Iraqi refugees, despite the UK Government being a signatory to the Geneva Convention.

Letter from NCADC TO Ban Ki moon  Secretary General of the United Nations

Ban Ki Moon

Secretary General of the United Nations,

 Avenue de la Paix 14,

1211 Genève 10,

Switzerland 

fax 022 917 00 32‎ 

Dear Ban Ki Moon

The National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaign (UK)  wishes to add its voice to the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees demands below.

IRAQI REFUGEES WILL NOT STAY SILENT!

Join our demonstration outside the United Nation in Geneva

No more deportations, No more detention, No more voucher system and No more dispersal

Date:16-17 April 2009

In front of the United Nation in Geneva