Refugee Issues

IFIR Press Release 8 August 2023 Racist and inhumane housing accommodation for refugees on Bibby Stockholm boat in Portland!Yesterday, the first group of refugees arrived on the boat Bibby Stockholm, as ministers pushed on with the plans, despite a raft of opposition in Portland, Dorset, on Monday, despite local opposition and repeated …

22July2023 IFIR press release  The United Kingdom’s decision in Parliament last week to enact a new law granting authorities the power to deport individuals arriving on its shores by boat has raised profound concerns among human rights advocates, civil society organizations, and freedom loving people alike. This regressive and punitive …

International Federation of Iraqi Refugees strongly denounces the new Immigration Bill! Rishi Sunak’s The UK Tory Prime Minister and the Home Office Secretary are proposing a stricter law on asylum seekers arriving by boat. The legislation violates international law, which protects refugee rights. The new law prohibits asylum seekers who …

Mr Osman Mohammed Faraj told IFIR that he had been taken from Harmondsworth detention centre in handcuffs to Heathrow airport and placed aboard a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul. Mr Faraj complained about pains in his Kidney as he was placed on the plane. The security guards however, ignored him …

The United Nations has designated June 20 as the World Refugee Day since 1951. We are approaching World Refugee Day this year at a time when human society is going through a dangerous and difficult era. The world is in a state of turmoil. Economic and financial crises, war, militarism, …

Our struggle to stop this brutal and racist policy, continues! Our fight to stop transferring refugees to Rwanda, continues!

IFIR demonstrated with other refugee rights organisations outside the Rwandan High Commission against the Rwandan government’s shameful deal to accept deportations from the UK. The deportation flight to Rwanda scheduled for 14th June must be stopped.

30 MAY 2022 Dear representative of refugee organizations and  Human right activists!   On behalf of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) and the people detained in Harmondsworth,brockhouse and Colnbrook detention centres, I would like to thank everyone who came out today to oppose the planned deportation of Iraqi Kurds, some of whom …

23rd January 2022  IFIR Press release: Urgent call to all Humanitarian and Refugee Rights Organisations to: Stop the Norwegian Government’s and other Western Government’s meeting and dealing with The Taliban  A Taliban delegation is in Norway, Oslo, and talks are planned with the Norwegian authorities and other Western Officials for …

Protestschreiben des Vertreters des Internationele Ferdration  der Irakischen Flüchtlinge in Deutschland . an den deutschen Außenminister