Refugee Issues

Demonstration and assembly Home Office, Marsham Street Thursday 16th May, from 5pm The UK government is violently rounding up refugees to be deported to Rwanda. It is trying to ban the act of seeking asylum. This is a racist, inhuman policy. We must fight to stop it. Thousands of people …

Refugee campaigners demand end to Rwanda Plan in May Day protest A coalition of refugee and migrants’ rights groups have held a demonstration at Downing Street in protest at the government’s sudden implementation of the Rwanda Plan.  The demonstration was called by the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, the International …

1May2024 Hello everyone, Happy May Day On behalf of International Federation of Iraqi refugees-IFIR and International organisation of Iranian Refugees. I welcome you to this important Demonstration. We are gathered here today to voice our opposition to this inhumane and unjust policy of sending refugees to Rwanda. This policy is yet another …

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.