#Refugee Rights

[salvation-within-the-void]

The prime minister of the UK has just confirmed that he will change the law to allow the conservative party to forcibly deport immigrants to Rwanda.

The SUPREME COURT of the UK found this policy unlawful, the government were told they CANNOT do this.

Their response? Change the law

This policy is a threat to the lives of refugees who fled here seeking support and asylum, as a country we should be kind and welcoming. Instead these poor people are being sent straight back into the instability and violence they risked their lives to escape.

Rwanda has a history of being used to 'sweep refugees under the rug', having signed a similar deal with Israel. The supreme court found that Rwanda has previously violated laws protecting immigrant against refoulement, as it has sent people back to the nations they fled. Directly violating international treaties and violating the rights granted to refugees and asylum seekers.

Sunak also stated that he will not allow the European human rights court to block this policy and will revisit any treaties that may act as "obstacles" to this policy.

They are trying to get out of THE INTERNATIONAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS! The refugge system in Rwanda is so unsafe that this is a human rights issue! And our government want to violate those rights for thousands of immigrants they are determined not to help.

These people are hell bent on making life miserable for refugees. The deputy chair of the conservatives stated the government should "ignore the law and start the flights anyway".

Rishi Sunak is also introducing "emergency legislation" in order to force this through parliament and the courts.

Where have we heard that before?

These are the same emergency powers that allow laws to be passed without parliamentary votes. The same emergency powers that enabled the "war on terror" so the UK and US could commit war crimes. The same emergency powers used by the nazis to legitimise the holocuase

This is facism! Plain as day.

I am very very worried for the future of my country and the future of this world. Facism is not on the rise, it is here. We must watch very very closely, at home and abroad, so that we can act accordingly and protect ourselves.

[spinosacha]

To members of the EU: remember that there is election for the european parliament the 6-9th of June depending on your country.

The european parliament is the sector of EU that is elected by and represents the people of the EU. They vote on legislation and have huge power.

I know the EU system can be very confusing but you don’t have to know everything to know which party or MEP you agree with. If you care about Palestine, climate change, the biodiversity collaps, refugees, lgbtq rights, Ukraine, womens rights or any issue really, then this is election is important to you.

Also remember to check out the deadline for letter voting, it’s usually a little earlier.

[zingaplanet]

Look. Ok. Look. We're not hyping about this enough.

Source: Wimbledon Instagram

[luminalunii97]

An Iranian LGBTIQ activist is facing deportation to his home country. The Human Rights Association (IHD) announced on Friday that Elyas Torabiba-Eskandari was detained last Sunday at a Pride parade in Istanbul and taken into deportation custody. After a stay of several hours at the police station in the Beyoğlu district, Torabiba-Eskandari was initially taken to the deportation centre of the Turkish migration authority in Tuzla. In the meantime, he is being held in an identical facility in the border province of Urfa. Elyas Torabiba-Eskandari fled Iran ten years ago together with his mother. According to the IHD, both were victims of state violence, arbitrary detention and torture in their home country. Since their flight in 2013, they have been living in Turkey - however, they do not enjoy full refugee protection there in the sense of the Geneva Convention, but only have so-called conditional refugee status. Nevertheless, a deportation would violate the prohibition of refoulement, i.e. that refugees may not be deported to countries where their lives are in danger. However, the IHD regularly documents deportations of refugees from Turkey to Iran, but also to Syria and Iraq, where their lives are in danger.

LGBTQ+ activists face lethal punishments in Iran. This shouldn't be allowed.

[idontshitpostbuttheolympicpark]

This is despicable. How can you justify detaining and removing people that are complying with the immigration system. These are people that are likely traumatised and already suffering under the system and yet they will be forced to leave again from places where they are trying to rebuild their lives.

Where have these judges been? Why are people being held in indefinite detention waiting for their hearings when these courtrooms and judges were apparently available. This is incomprehensible to me.

[guilty-feminist]

[itkrnowsyou]

fuck that submarine i thereby implore you to read this report and any further reports on this tragedy i know it’s fun to explore the mental gymnastics behind the idiocy of the rich and the phenomenon of a white man’s hubris but the lack of response and acknowledgment bothers me so much

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/18/asia/pakistan-deaths-migrant-boat-disaster-greece-intl-hnk/index.html

[laurellynnleake]

Over under sideways down: A comic book story of a refugee fleeing conflict 

[ID: Over under sideways down: A comic book story of a refugee fleeing conflict. Ebrahim, an Iranian teenager, falls through an endless teal inkwashed haze, his ID card and other paper scraps flying off into the void. Text reads: "little did Ebrahim realize/that as his ID vanished, so did proof of his identity" as he tumbles down the page and drops into the back of a truck. He tucks himself into a tiny huddle, crammed between boxes and other terrified refugees.]

A comic by Karrie Fransman based on Ebrahim Esmail’s flight from Iran to England as a teen. Originally made to mark Refugee Week in 2013, the comic can still be accessed on the Internet Archive.

[hellenic-whore]

Had to draw a thing about organ transplants and trafficking. Took some notes about it too cause why not.

Did this partially because of the meat garden episode from the Magnus archives.

It was mostly about the middle east as it was for my middle eastern literature class, so yeah.

Notes and some interesting quotes are down below. The main source I used was "The Red Market:On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers" by Scott Carney.

If you want to read it yourself it's a pretty good book, you should be able to find a PDF of it pretty easily!

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•Organ donors oftentimes are impoverished and sell their organs commercially to make money to feed themselves, afford rent etc.

•A migrant put the issue this way "If you cannot find work when you get to Egypt, you will not find mercy. This is why people sell their kidneys."

•In Egypt, an organ seller will receive 2000$ while a buyer will pay 2000$.

•Refugees are especially vulnerable to organ trafficking because of a lack of legal protection.

•People in underdeveloped countries often view their organs in the same way one might view social security or unemployment benefits- as a safety net.

•One woman who was, in essence, scammed out of her kidney, alleged a police complaint about the fraud. When the police attempted to arrest the broker for organ trading, the police also tried to arrest the donor for selling her kidney. The broker was let off with a warning.

• "Flesh... Moves up the social hierarchy, not down" (Carney 53)

•"In America, it is taboo to suggest US transplant centers are in the business of buying and selling organs. They're here to save lives." (Carney 56)

Stylized gore warning for all of you that are new to here.

Sources and the picture are under the cut.

Here are my sources in big fancy mla format cause why not

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Carney, Scott. The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers. William Morrow, 2022.

“Human Trafficking and Trauma in the Digital Era.” Google Books, Google, books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=2PtWEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA159&dq=organ%2Btrafficking%2Brefugee&ots=D-PcbX-U0k&sig=2Fv19I115KGwnpgjAHCaq_LAIO4#v=onepage&q=organ%20trafficking%20refugee&f=false. Accessed 13 Dec. 2023.

Lesniewski, Matthew James. “Monitoring Human Trafficking in Displaced Populations.” eTD Explore, 1 Jan. 1970, etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/21347.

“Organ Trafficking in Egypt: ’they Locked Me in and Took My Kidney.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 9 Feb. 2019, www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb/09/trafficking-people-smugglers-organs-egypt-mediterranean-refugees-migrants.

Osmandzikovic, Emina. “How Conflicts Turned the Middle East into an Organ-Trafficking Hotspot.” Arab News, 10 July 2020, www.arabnews.com/node/1701871/middle-east#:~:text=The%20protracted%20conflict%20in%20Syria,the%20region’s%20red%20market%20hotspots.

[tieflingkisser]

Haitian Asylum Seekers Take Biden Admin to Court for Racial Discrimination, Rights Violations

A federal court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of racial discrimination and rights violations of Haitian asylum seekers. The suit was brought on behalf of 11 Haitian asylum seekers who were abused by U.S. border agents as more than 15,000 people, mostly from Haiti, were forced to stay in a makeshift border encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuña-Del Rio International Bridge in Texas. One of the plaintiffs is Mirard Joseph, the asylum seeker whose image went viral after being photographed while a Border Patrol agent on horseback lashed him with split reins, grabbed his neck and gripped Joseph by the shirt collar. “This is a critical junction in our country here in the United States as we make sure to uphold human rights and understanding seeking asylum is a human right,” says Guerline Jozef, executive director of immigrant advocacy organization Haitian Bridge Alliance, which helped bring the case on behalf of asylum seekers. “We will continue to push forward and make sure that accountability is served but also we have systematic change in the way that we receive people in the United States.”

Transcript:

[daily-castaneda]

David Castañeda advocating for (unacccompanied) migrant and refugee children on ¡Despierta América! (22nd November).

I don’t speak Spanish, but David has advocated for this organisation that provides legal help in the past. (Helpforkids@sidermanlaw.com)

Caption from his Instagram post explaining what this organisation is about below the cut. (Instagram Link)

Helpforkids@sidermanlaw.com Any child, under the age of 18. undocumented that is locked up at the US border and crossed between 2016-2020. Or a minor living in the US undocumented and with no parents that crossed between 2016-2020 Send an email. They will help pro-bono. Free. To analyze their case, work on their release and apply for asylum in the US! Cualquier niño, menor de 18 años, indocumentado que esté encerrado en la frontera de EE. UU. y haya cruzado entre 2016-2020. O un menor que vive en los EE. UU. indocumentado y sin padres que cruzó entre 2016-2020 Envíe un correo electrónico. Ellos ayudarán pro-bono. Libre. ¡Para analizar su caso, trabajar en su liberación y solicitar asilo en EE.UU.!

[leonlavender]

PETITION: NOT TO RWANDA, NOT ANYWHERE: STOP THE FLIGHTS

"This government’s Rwanda scheme was just ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court, declaring Rwanda is unsafe for refugees, and stopping the Rwanda scheme.

But with this government announcing emergency legislation and threatening to go against international law, it's not time to back down. It's time to step it up a gear."

[tessabennet]

And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

[goblincow]

This is Loraine Mponela, a migrant to the UK who works with Stand Up To Racism and is a champion of Status Now 4 All, an organisation that seeks to help refugees and migrants be acknowledged as legal citizens in the UK.

Here she talks about how she survived the long fight to receive status, which she finally received last year (after 10 years of fighting, which maddeningly is short compared to the 20+ years many have to wait).

She's is a poet, a brilliantly powerful speaker and an inspiration of mine, and I hope that you watch this video and subscribe to hear more about what life is really like for migrants fighting for their rights in the UK.

No more murdering refugees by leaving them to drown on dinghies and small boats in the channel. No more endless waiting living on less than enough to survive without the same rights as other workers, being ruthlessly exploited to fuel essential organisations like the NHS and being neglected and abused by the government at every turn.

Migrants and refugees seeking asylum in the UK have no legal route to do so and if they somehow manage to make it here they are abused, dehumanised, detained & kidnapped by human traffickers, and avoiding or surviving this leads them to a bureaucratic no-mans land, a liminal space where you are treated as less than the other people who live in your community while the government profits from migration and relies on it to turn the cogs of the capitalist machine.

We all suffer from this system, regardless of the colour of our skin or the place of our birth. Migrants and refugees bear the brunt of it but it divides and weakens the entire working class. This is why socialists oppose borders.

Loraine's experience is one of how solidarity and community can overcome the difficulties and barriers placed in front of migrants and refugees, and she talks about how a better future is possible through anti-racist activism.

Please listen to what she has to say to learn about her experience and learn what you can do to support refugee and migrant rights.

[twanarchy]

protect refugees!

[beforethefilm]

I MADE THIS.

For the fight against injustice.

Posters on my etsy.

Selling at cost. I won't charge for the price of freedom.