Refugee Issues

26th October 2020 IFIR Press Release 30 Kurdish Asylum Seekers in Brook House Detention Centre on hunger strike against deportation According to the Kurdish Asylum Seekers in the Brookhouse Immigration Removal Centre in London, 30 Kurdish Asylum Seekers are being threatened to be forcibly deported and are protesting by refusing meals …

International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) condemns the murder of teacher Samuel Paty.  Samuel was murdered yesterday evening (16 October) as he left the school close to Paris where he taught.  The terrorist murdered Samuel because in a lesson discussing freedom of speech,  Samuel showed the Children Charlie Hebdo cartoons …

Letter to Human and refugee rights activists and organizations Mostafa Salimi executed after being deported back to Iran Mustafa Salimi, a 53 year old was a Kurdish political prisoner, was sentenced to death in Iran after escaping prison during the COVID -19. After spending 17 years in prison, Political Prisoner Salimi escaped …

Social Assistance Network To aid those infected by coronavirus pandemic We are a group of volunteering civil servants, nurses and doctors who would like to announce the formation of the Social Assistance Network to assist coronavirus patients and those who are in danger of being infected across the globe. Through this …

The Covid-19 Pandemic, combined with the failure of the British Government to properly protect its population, and a major economic crash has created situation where the most abhorrent forms of racism are set to thrive

Freedom and equality -seeking women and men! Defenders of women’s and children’s rights! We congratulate all women and men on March 8, as a day which marks the protest against gender inequality, discrimination and oppression against women. Despite the fact that some individual and civil rights and basic demands of …

International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR understands that the Iraqi Government has threatened to dissolve Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI).  The General secretariat of the Iraqi council of ministers have also filed a lawsuit against the president of OWFI. 

To Watch The Med 13 people missing as boat sinks off Greek island of Paxi on 11January 2020  19January2020 Dear/Sir/Madam              The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR was contacted by the concerned families who fear that their family members may have drowned. They say they spoke to their family members one hour …

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR was contacted by the concerned families who fear that their family members may have drowned. They say they spoke to their family members one hour before they boarded a boat on the 11 January 2020, which was heading for the Italian coast.  Unfortunately the …

25 November 2019 IFIR Press Release   International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) was informed by Mr Karwan that he and his pregnant wife and two children (who are only three and one years old) have been held in Zurich airport since the 12 October 2019.  Mr Karwan is very unwell …