Heute fliegen mein Kollege Fayad und ich für kurze Zeit nach Hause.Wie immer bin ich ambivalent. Wieder ein Abschied von vielen Menschen, zu denen wir Beziehung, Vertrauen aufgebaut haben.Wieder ein Abschied von Menschen in größter Not. Und die Vorfreude auf Zuhause. Meine Kinder, meine Familie, Freund*innen, zurück nach Graz, einer Stadt, in der jetzt Dunkelrot-Grün-Rot kommt. Wie immer hin und …
Der Schein trügt – lassen wir uns nicht blenden
Wenn wir NGOs Bilder unserer Arbeit zeigen, dann zeigen wir die Momente der Unterstützung, der menschlichen Begegnungen, wir zeigen, was wir unter Hilfe vor Ort verstehen und was mit den Spendengeldern passiert. Das ist notwendig und auch wichtig, um unsere Unterstützer*innen zu informieren, was wir tun. Auf keinen Fall möchte ich, als Vertreterin unseres Vereins „Flüchtlingshilfe/refugee assistance-doro blancke“, dass wir …
World Refugee Day 2021
After 9 months of disaster operations on #Lesbos and short activities on other Greek islands, when political leaders address this day, I feel it is only a farce.Together with those affected, we put this cynicism on display World Refugee Day 2021 #GenevaRefugeeConvention #Europe #Greece #Austria (Idea and photos: Fayad Mulla)
Barbed Wire Asylum Center Drasenhofen
#Drasenhofen #Waldhäusl #Consequences Sometimes you just have to expect things.Today is a day of satisfaction. "In order to restrict a person's freedom, there needs to be a legal basis and a corresponding cause. In Drasenhofen, neither the one nor the other was present. The internment of the youths was therefore illegal," says lawyer Clemens Lahner, who represented the complainant. LR Waldhäusl cannot ...
Asylum and Migration European Union
The issues I work on together with NGO colleagues cannot always be viewed only nationally. Many of the demands we make concern the community of states, the European Union. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to MEP Dr. Bettina Vollath, S&D, who not only always has an open ear for us, but also does everything she can in her areas of work to ...
Vienna, Afghanistan, working for and with people on the run
For all those who accompany, support, observe our work in goodwill and also for those who are directly affected, a small cross-section from the last visit to Vienna. BBU-Bundesbetreuungsagentur #Fairlassen Very good cooperation of different NGOs who have been intensively dealing with the loss of independent legal counselling for the last year. Together we tried to make the best out of this terrible situation. The Federal Support Agency ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan - AusbildungStattAbschiebung?
The initiative #AusbildungStattAbschiebung, initiated by the current Minister Rudi Anschober and supported by many NGOs, business people and private individuals has made a lot of difference.The apprentices, mainly from Afghanistan, have received a so-called "inhibition" and can complete their apprenticeship. The first apprentices are finished, they are trained to become urgently needed skilled workers and I note that the Federal Government, the BMI continue to assume that the ...
Graz-Libya-Mediterranean and the Blackbird in the Backyard
Today, what I was always afraid of happened to me. I met an 18-year-old refugee who has been through Libya, the Mediterranean, sea rescue, all of that. First of all, my heartfelt thanks to people like our dear friend Claus-Peter Reisch, captain of the Mission Lifeline https://mission-lifeline.de/und and all the other sea rescuers for their work. Because as Christoph Riedl so aptly said at the award ceremony ...
How much longer? Deportation instead of training?
How much longer, dear provincial governors, esteemed mayors, city councillors, municipal councillors? "How much longer", I ask you, do you want to go along with this complete incomprehensibility, not to say idiocy, remain silent, keep quiet for party-political reasons, when you know exactly from your human consciousness that deportations to high-risk areas such as Afghanistan do not correspond in any way to our humanistic thinking?
Facts of the recent deportation of young Afghans/Vienna - Kabul
Deportations to Afghanistan are, as we keep emphasising, deeply reprehensible. The country is at war, the government as well as the police, authorities, etc. are in a quagmire of corruption. Terrorists control large sections of the country, mafia-like machinations are the order of the day. Even if now and then we see pictures of business people, of groups fighting for rights, of people who ...