"Faith, heart and mind tell me that deportation to Afghanistan is contrary to human dignity. It is important to stand up against this, to speak out and to stop this cruelty immediately," says Deacon Hannes Stickler. Hannes Stickler is the director of the Diakonissen hospital in Schladming and is known to many Austrians in connection with the case of Hossein Lehrling/Afghanistan in the Diakonissen hospital in Schladming. In consistent ...
Nocturnal kitchen thoughts
We said goodbye to our Christmas tree this weekend in our shared flat. It was a gift from Mulham to all of us. Just as we decorated it together, we took it down together yesterday. The boys then took it to the collection point. And somehow that day then turned into a departure. We turned our whole place upside down. …
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan
Today I am posting my personal statement here. "Deportations to the most dangerous country in the world, Afghanistan, are neither humanly nor legally justifiable. NOTHING has changed, deportations to Afghanistan will continue to take place, young people, perfectly integrated, will continue to leave our country in a cruel way, in which they once again go on the run within Europe, again alone somewhere ...
Government Programme Turquoise/Green 2020
As everyone who knows me must be aware, I have spent the last 2 days doing a lot of work. Reading the government programme, analysing what this paper means, which partly contains good points, but especially in our area of human rights, asylum and migration it is a disaster. My first reaction was great disappointment, pain, anger and helplessness. After many conversations with friends, NGOs, friends, supporters, designers, a sleepless night with many reflections remains. …
2020, let us proclaim it the Year of Human Rights and Love.
Full of joy and gratitude I am sitting in our kitchen, listening to the beautiful flamenco sounds of Mulham, accompanied by the sensual singing of Maite. I have just returned from a long walk in which nature enveloped me intimately. In all this beauty, this gift to all of us, I reviewed all the hours and moments that have marked the last year. And ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan - Christoph Riedl
How could we start the New Year better than with a man who is regarded both in Austria and in Europe as one of the people who sincerely, peacefully and with all their might preserve human rights and fight for them every day, Christoph Riedl. Christoph Riedl is an expert on asylum, integration and human rights. He worked for 20 years in the Diakonie Refugee Service, since ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan - Susanne Scholl
Susanne Scholl, Austrian journalist, book author and co-founder of "Omas gegen Rechts" supports the campaign #StopDeportationToAfghanistan with full conviction. "Every person has the right to a dignified life," she says. It is clear to all of us that deportations to Afghanistan, a country at war, do not correspond to such a right. To us, who fight for human rights, and to those who are responsible for these cruel deportations to a ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan brother Erich Geir
On this Christmas Day, a man who has been involved with charity and mercy all year long speaks out against the deportations to Afghanistan. Brother Erich Geir, Provincial of the Capuchins of Austria and South Tyrol. "Deporting people to a war zone like Afghanistan is heartless and irresponsible. As a Christian, I cannot allow this," said Brother Erich Geir. It would be desirable that ...
Christmas - the festival of charity
I am torn these last few days. Hardly anyone in our country, whether practising Christians or anyone else, who doesn't celebrate Christmas. Everyone comes together with their loved ones. Celebrating in their own personal way, eating, drinking, partying, praying, in very different ways this feast is celebrated today. And many of my friends from the human rights sector say that it is ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan-Olga Flor
Today, a woman we hold in high esteem, artist, networker, socially committed. Olga Flor/writer. She lives and works in Graz and we thank her most sincerely for this clear statement: "Afghanistan is a country in a state of war with a steadily increasing number of civilian victims. Deportations there are neither humanly nor politically justifiable." Olga Flor was recently awarded the Franz Nabl Prize of the city of ...