#asylum
French Interior Ministry: We are now working on suspending asylum applications by Syrians after fall of Assad and the proclamation of a Transitional Government in #Syria
The French government is working on a suspension of current asylum cases from Syria after the fall of President Bashar Assad, the interior ministry said, adding that a decision on the matter would likely be reached within the next few hours.
#Poland’s leader plans to suspend the right to #asylum as country faces pressure on #Belarus #border
Through its involvement in the lost wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan, Poland has contributed significantly to the refugee flows. Refusing to accept refugees is therefore not only ethically reprehensible but also a testimony to inhumane criminal politics.
#europe #eu #refugees #humanrights #humanity #Problem #politics #ethics #fail #news #crime #military #war
As Israel continues its downward spiral towards authoritarianism, sponsored in part by the US administration under President Biden, it has taken another step in the wrong direction, a budding army of #mercenaries.
The #IDF has been recruiting #African asylum seekers to perform life-threatening tasks in the #Gaza Strip in exchange for permanent residency. This practice is a form of exploitation and extortion, similar to Russia's #WagnerGroup, where prisoners are used as mercenaries. The IDF has also been using Palestinian civilians as human shields, which is a war crime prohibited by international law. A "despicable low" in Israel's behavior during the Gaza war.
Recruiting African #Asylum Seekers for Gaza War Is New Despicable Low haaretz.co.il/opinions/editori… or archive.ph/2zXbu (in Hebrew)
Interestingly, the Haaretz's Hebrew edition correctly titled this editorial: Local Wagner Group: The "most moral army in the world" extorts asylum seekers with threats.
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
Well said!
Small reminder needed though--before the US, there was France. The US picked up where France left off.
♲ Ms. Que Banh - 2024-06-16 23:26:23 GMT
#Transcription of my #speech for #deaf folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with #community #solidarity, to call for a #PermanentCeasefire in support of #Palestinians who are suffering #famine & #genocidal violence under #Israeli occupational forces.
My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the #USinvasion #WarOnVietnam I was a #WarChild conceived & born under active shelling & had #IntergenerationalTrauma pre & post birth.
We were #displaced from our homes & survived in a #RefugeeCamp in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as #WarRefugees, seeking #asylum.
My patriarch family lived in #Cholon the #Chinese District in #Saigon & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Canto near the Hau River in #SouthVietnam. Both sides of my family had already lived through multiple foreign invasions & foreign militarized imperialism & colonialism by the time the US invaded & occupied our lands.
Many of us living Vietnam war civilian survivors can relate so well to the many struggles, the suffering, the violent foreign occupation & also the passionate resilience & resistance of the Palestinian peoples.
Throughout the 1960s into the 1970s both areas that my family lived in were carpet bombed. My Matriarch family village was bombed out of existence by 1970. The rebuilding took 18 years. Cholon was #CarpetBombed twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from #Gaza after #Israel carpet bombed the area.
The #USmilitary used #Vietnamese #civilians as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before #WarMunitions including #biochemical warfare like #AgentOrange & #NerveGasBombs on our peoples.
Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal #biowarfare chemical uses by the #USA to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.
Israel is treating the Palestinian peoples very much like the USA had treated our Vietnamese peoples. Like we are not human. We do not deserve to live. The dehumanization of Palestinians is too similar to how the USA dehumanized our Vietnamese peoples. We're savages. We are vermin. We're stupid tunnel rats. We're gooks & we deserve to die.
The USA bombed our #schools, our #hospitals, our #temples, our #ResidentialAreas - just like Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, temples & residential areas in Palestine. The USA has more powerful weapons of mass destruction while fighting resistance forces with much less firepower. The Vietnamese #ResistanceForces also used #TunnelSystems & some of them are now part of an #educational #LivingMuseum.
Vietnam is now #SovereignNation because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to #DiplomaticNegotiations. Palestinians deserve their true path to diplomatic Solutions too. They deserve a sovereign state. That can not happen without a permanent - not a temporary - a permanent ceasefire - an end to #IllegalOccupation by Israel.
You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a #democracy. True #Democratic states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny #PressFreedom to #journalists. True democratic states do not arrest, vilify, nor illegally detain their own citizens with dissenting voices. True democratic states don't continue to violate multiple #InternationalLaws so openly & so disrespectfully.
Israel has become too #arrogant that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & #Canada continuing to put their #WarProfiteer interests over #humanitarian & global #PublicInterests.
At a time when we need an arms embargo on Israel, the US & Canada sent billions more in war munitions & funding to Israel. It is shameful.
Our politicians tell us there's not enough money to fund more essential health & medical service needs. There's not enough money to increase the pay scale of essential medical staff. There's not enough money to fund environmental protection & cleanups. There's not enough to help our seniors & disabled not live in poverty anxiety. There's not enough to fund safer, more inclusive, accessible education. There's not enough to provide more low income & some more support of housing for our most marginalized citizens. These are all citizen needs that our governments have told they cannot afford to fully fund but they can find billions to fund ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. That is not okay & that is not in our public interest.
I urge everyone here to please keep contacting all of your local provincial & federal representatives in every way possible & ask them to please push Trudeau to call for both a permanent ceasefire & to initiate an arms embargo on Israel - NOW.
Please keep having the conversations with people you know & people you don't know about Palestine. The conversations are important. Please keep standing in solidarity with Gaza & all Palestinians.
The antidote to despair is action. This here is humanity in action & I thank all of you for showing your humanity & your ongoing support of Palestinians because remember, no democracy can exist without the freedom of citizens dissenting voices and I appreciate all of your voices dissenting, against our government who is still supporting genocide.
Free Palestine!
"I escaped an #authoritarian regime. I don’t feel safer in the #UK"
For people seeking asylum and even those already recognised as refugees, Britain does not feel like a safe country anymore
When you constantly experience insecurity, your psyche becomes extremely sensitive to it. You react to the smallest threats. Normal life and trust are impossible in a society that delegitimises you.
For people seeking #asylum and even those already recognised as refugees, #Britain does not feel like a safe country anymore. It isn’t a safe country anymore, not as long as government officials feel comfortable saying that putting us onto a plane to Rwanda is a “dream” and an “obsession”, as former home secretary Suella Braverman did.
It's the same thing all over again: repression, indifference, cruelty. Suffering as a project.
#HumanRights #ToryFascists #Fascism #humanity #HumanRights #InternationalLaw
UK granted asylum to Rwandan refugees while arguing country was safe
Four #Rwandans were granted refugee status in the UK over “well-founded” fears of persecution at the same time as the government was arguing in court and parliament that the east African country was a safe place to send asylum seekers.
#ToryLies #hypocrites #UK #asylum #fascism #racism #ToryFascism #ToryScum #AsylumSeekers #HumanRights #InternationalLaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTVTtakCgmM
The #Lunatics Have Taken Over the #Asylum (Fun Boy three )
#refugees #migrants #asylum/
IS IT LEGAL TO CROSS US BORDER TO SEEK ASYLUM?
Yes, seeking asylum is legal. Asylum seekers must be in the U.S. or at a port of entry (an airport or an official land crossing) to request the opportunity to apply for asylum. "There's no way to ask for a visa or any type of authorization in advance for the purpose of seeking asylum.
https://www.rescue.org/article/it-legal-cross-us-border-seek-asylum
#emigration #asylum
Most of the desperate people seeking asylum in America at the Texas-Mexican border have traveled - with great hardships - from Venezuela.
How any people have left Venezuela in 2023?
7.71 million people
Which president ruined Venezuela?
Yet another Trump-style dictator.
- An ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis began in Venezuela during the presidency of Hugo Chávez and has worsened during the presidency of his successor Nicolás Maduro. It has been marked by hyperinflation, escalating starvation, disease, crime, destruction of the environment and mortality rates, resulting in massive emigration from the country.
Please copy and paste the letter from this webpage and email it, to protect a peacebuilder in danger:
International campaign: Protection and asylum for human rights defender Olga Karatch
Following the denial of political #asylum by the Lithuanian authorities for the #Belarusian #peacebuilder and #HumanRights defender Olga Karatch (Volha Karach), the international campaign #protection4olga has just been launched to demand #protection and asylum for the director of the organisation ‘Our House‘. She has been fighting for human rights in #Belarus for years, including the right to #ConscientiousObjection to #military service, and is therefore persecuted and faces capital punishment in her country of origin, where she has been labelled a ‘terrorist’ by the regime.
#SuellaBraverman broke #law by denying #AsylumSeekers £3 a week, judge rules | #Immigration and #asylum | The Guardian
Isn't it odd that politicians in office can break the law and not have to resign, be fined, get a criminal record or go to jail if they are caught doing something illegal as part of their jobs?
#TheSpecials - The #Lunatics (Have Taken Over The #Asylum)
"Oddly #prophetic and socially relevant"
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4RZgMmb68
Lyrics
… See a clinic full of cynics
Who want to twist the peoples' wrist
They're watching every move we make
We're all included on the list
… The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
… No nuclear the cowboy told us
And who am I to disagree
'Cause when the madman flips the switch
The nuclear will go for me
… The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
… I've seen the faces of starvation
But I just can not see the points
'Cause there's so much food here today
That no one wants to take away
… The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum, take away my right to choose
The lunatics have taken over the asylum, take away my point of view
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum, take away my dignity
Take these things away from me
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum, take away my family
Take away the right to speak
The lunatics have taken over the asylum take away my point of view
Take away my right to choose
Mostafa Azimitabar and Farhad Bandesh say they've suffered immeasurable harm from Australia's offshore detention policy. They're using the release of a new documentary, in which they both feature, to call for it to end. SBS
#human-rights #detention #imprisonment #refuge #asylum #Australia #oz
Venezuelans, Colombians and Peruvians lead asylum requests in the European Union
Applications for asylum from citizens of #Venezuela, #Peru and #Colombia in the European Union skyrocketed in March and are at levels close to the all-time high, according to community statistics, which place Spain as the main destination for those who arrive in #Europe from those three Latin American countries.
In March alone, the 27 #EU countries, #Norway and #Switzerland received some 92,000 #asylum requests, with #Syrians (10,000), #Afghans (9,500) as the main applicant nationalities, mainly in #Germany. Among the countries that are growing the most is #Turkey (5,900), whose data is now more than double that of the same month in 2022.