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Two day lobby of UN office in Geneva 16 and 17 April 2009 to Defend Iraqi and Kurdish refugees
 03/04/2009

Human rights campaigners, trade unions and refugee rights organizations across Europe please join our campaign to defend Iraqi and Kurdish refugees.

This message From: "d.jamal" d.jamal@ntlworld.com

To prevent further suffering, the International Federation of the Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) calls upon the United Nations to make the following demands out of a regard for compassion and human dignity:-

1. An immediate end to the policy of enforced deportation of Iraqi Kurdish refugees by all European countries.

2. Require all European governments to recognise that previous agreements, between the Iraqi Kurdish government and European countries regarding the deportation of refugees, as invalid because their safety simply cannot be guaranteed.

3. Require the release of all Iraqi refugees from prisons and detention centres, who have been detained because of illegal entry or their leave to remain, has expired.  Those who have committed a crime should be charged and tried in the country where the crime was committed not forcibly deported.

4. Demand that Kurdish and Iraqi asylum seekers, be allowed to work to support themselves and have the right to family reunion.

5. Those asylum seekers who are disabled, ill, or destitute and cannot work should be treated with compassion.

6. Asylum seekers who are destitute in countries outside Europe should be supported with health services and education or transferred to a European country.

7. The United Nations should require European countries to fulfil the above demands and stop enforced deportations of refugees.

If these demands are to be met we need your support: - please join our demonstrations outside the United Nations office in Geneva on the 16 and 17 April.

United Nations Office at Geneva
Avenue de la Paix 14, 1211
Genève 10
Switzerland
Fax + 41 22 917 00 32