EUROPEAN DAYS OF SOLIDARITY WITH ALL REFUGEES FROM UKRAINE – Black Community Hamburg

World Refugge Day 2022 – Demonstration for Equality of Treatment

blackcommunityhamburg — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:26:10 +0000

FB-Event Demonstration: Equality of Treatment ->

On this year’s World Refugee Day on June 20, we want to show solidarity especially with African and international refugees that fled the war in Ukraine and are being discriminated against on racial, ethnical or national grounds. They are refugees of the same war, have suffered the same trauma of war and flight from war, had to leave behind their valuables and belongings, their normal lives and achievements – but are treated differently through discrimination and exclusion from temporary protection.

We want to advocate for the right to equal treatment of ALL refugees of ALL wars or due to ALL other valid reasons to flee once country of living.

Pls read the Statement of the self-organized Refugee group “Africans From Ukraine” here: https://blackcommunityhamburg.blackblogs.org/2022/03/29/statement-africansfromua-on-equal-treatment/

So called Third Country Nationals who have lived their lives in Ukraine, who have invested substantially into coming there for valid reasons, who have been caught up in war like Ukrainian nationals too are since then forced into a degrading limbo from day one of this ongoing war.

Temporary protection is meant to un-bureaucratically protect large numbers of refugees fleeing from a war. The scheme was established by the EU in 2001 but only now in 2022 actively implemented for the first time – it was neither activated for the war against Libya back in 2011, nor for the war in Syria in which Western countries are actively involved since 2014 – both creating massive fugitive influxes into the EU.

The exclusion from the temporary protection scheme of the EU as a whole and with every single EU country is a continuation of the violence and logic of war beyond the actual war zones. Refugees of non-European countries are systematically excluded from social and medical care and stripped of their human and constitutional rights by arbitrary treatment of immigration authorities.

Our demonstration will give space for the perspectives, needs and demands of those concerned and excluded. Testimonies of violations of their rights and dignity will be denounced to the public and the authorities in charge.

We invite you to be witness of the testimonies of abuse and part of the solidarity for ALL refugee on this very day and beyond!

Enough is Enough !

TOUCH ONE – TOUCH ALL !!!

Global Pathology of Wars, Borders, Migration and Exclusions from Equality

blackcommunityhamburg — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 20:42:48 +0000

EUROPEAN DAYS OF SOLIDARITY WITH ALL REFUGEES FROM UKRAINE

(APRIL 25 to MAY 25, 2022)

April 25, 2022 | 19-21 h – Online-Zoom-Meeting

Meeting-Link: https://t1p.de/European-Days-of-Solidarity-with-ALL-Refugees-from-Ukraine (Log-In with Zoom-Account obligatory!)

Keynote Speaker: Harsha Walia (Canada)

Global Pathology of Wars, Borders, Migration and Exclusions from Equality:

Racialized violence and discrimination of refugees fleeing the European war in Ukraine on all levels and at all stages of their flight. The European Council’s choice to exclude 3^rd country national refugees of the war in Ukraine was opening doors and opportunities for arbitrary administrative and executive decision making including violations of and obstructions from refuge and human rights. Black & Brown refugees/displaced are being neglected and left to the charity of civil society. The shameful neglects target also minorities like Roma/Sinti.

Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, human rights advocate, scholar and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is known for her organizing work with No One Is Illegal, the February 14th Women’s Memorial March Committee, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, and several Downtown Eastside housing justice coalitions. Walia has been active in migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movements for over a decade. In January 2020 she was announced as the new executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA). Walia is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013), co-author of Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration (2015) as well as Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2019), and has contributed to over thirty academic journals, anthologies, magazines and newspapers. She is a frequent guest speaker at campuses and conferences across North America and has delivered numerous presentations to the United Nations.

The self-organized group „Africans from Ukraine“ has written an Open Letter to German politicians to call for equality of treatment and will share their experiences as non-Ukraine displaced persons of the Ukraine war after the keynote as another entry point to the Q&A-discussion.

(https://blackcommunityhamburg.blackblogs.org/2022/03/29/statement-africansfromua-on-equal-treatment/)