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 ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan - Klaus Springer
Today a representative of civil society from Tyrol, Klaus Springer. A friend whom we hold in particularly high esteem. He tirelessly stands up for the concerns of people on the run, seeks dialogue, questions and gets involved. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for your commitment, dear Klaus, and for your great support in winning personalities for the campaign. http://www.sichersein.at http://Www.fairness-asyl.at
Right of Centre-Right Extremism-Right of State
Since I have been accompanying young Afghans, I have inevitably become much more involved with politics, law, justice, injustice than before. And although I am very grateful to live in this beautiful country, with its dreamlike landscape, the lakes, the mountains and so many loving, wonderful people, I am seriously worried. I am courageous, curious, sometimes a bit chaotic, committed and optimistic. But ...
Human Rights Day, Austria deports to Afghanistan tomorrow!
10.12.2019 International Human Rights Day. I agree with the words of my dear colleague, Christoph Riedl/Diakonie Österreich "NOTHING is sacred to them anymore" from the bottom of my heart! What human rights are worth will be demonstrated tomorrow by the Austrian Federal Government, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), which, as the party forming the government, is emotionlessly sticking to the deportations to a country at war, Afghanistan. How much it is about ...