Dear Donald Tusk and Representatives of the Member States in the European Council,  As a continuation of your previous meeting relating to the refugee crisis, another meeting is supposed to be held in Brussels on 17 and 18 of this month to discuss ways to stop refugees from reaching Europe. Those refugees have escaped …

7March 2016 IFIR Press Release: The European governments must share responsibilities for refugees Using force against refugees must be halted immediately Today there is another meeting of EU countries in Brussels to stop refugees fleeing to EU. European leaders’ continue to use Turkey as their border guard to stop refugees …

On the 1 March at 19.30 activists gathered outside the French institute to protest  regarding the treatment of refugees in Calais.

First I would like to thank the Islington Refugee Forum for inviting me to speak to you today on behalf of the IFIR; I am going to speak about the new wave of refugees from Middle East as refugees, not as migrants. And, accordingly explain why they should be accepted …

20 October 2015   Refugee boat sinking mother and 5 children drown off Greek Coast Muhammad Ahmad Father of the children told IFIR by phone”I fled from Kirkuk-North of Iraq on 10 of October with my family my wife and five children. We paid 12 thousand dollar and from Turkey Bodrum.  We were …

On Wednesday the 30th of September 2015 at the request of Consulate General of the United States of America in Erbil, representatives from IFIR visited their office. The representatives consisted of Dashty Jamal – The IFIR Secretary and Ari Jalal  -Sulaimaniya Branch representative. At their meeting, Dashty Jamal and Ari …

Ali Kareem from centre of IRC The Verne, Portland, Dorset detention centre contacted IFIR to report that he has been given a ticket to be returned to Iraq  on 23 October 2015 .  Ali has been given a ticket from Royal Jordanian airlines to be flown to Amman and then …

IFIR calls upon the UN to take responsibility for the lives of displaced people. The UN must provide daily necessities of the refugees. We also request that the UN ask countries where refugees have sought asylum to recognise them as refugees. At the same time we ask the humanitarian and …

Press Conference holds in Erbil City. The press conference composed of IFIR, Department of Foreign Relations, Department of Migration & Displaced of Kurdistan Regional Government and Human Rights Organization.

IFIR works to support Iraqi and Kurdish refugees returned from EU countries to build their lives in Kurdistan and Iraq and integrate again into society. IFIR is a democratic, human rights organisation. We consider that human rights are universal and they can not be limited by geography, gender, culture, religion, …