"We want the spring of hearts and greet from the square of human rights in Graz! No more deportations to Afghanistan!" Board of FORUM Stadtpark, Heidrun Primas, Emil Gruber and Robin Klengel http://www.forumstadtpark.at/ A big thank you to the board of FORUM Stadtpark for the statement against the deportations to Afghanistan. All of us who actively oppose these cruel deportations to a high-risk area like Afghanistan ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan - Peter Wesely
"Deportation to Afghanistan kills - life chances, hopes, perspectives, togetherness, friendships, lives - but also that humanity which is praised as an achievement in Sunday speeches". Peter Wesely, People.Dignity.Austria Alliance https://www.mwoe.at/ As a long-time organiser of http://www.sagsmulti.at/, former press spokesperson of a large NGO and member of People. Dignity.Austria, Peter Wesely is familiar with all the concerns and issues that people on the run and migrants ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan - Erich Fenninger
" Thousands dead. Hundreds of thousands displaced. That is the reality. Anyone who declares this Afghanistan safe is complicit." Erich Fenninger/Director Volkshilfe Austria Erich Fenninger, for years committed to people in need and to people on the run. A man who very closely observes and knows the social and political situation in our country and consistently advocates for good coexistence and ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan - Regina Petrik
"Even the State Department describes Afghanistan as a high-risk area. There is massive violence in various forms everywhere. Deporting people to such a country means sending them to their deaths with their eyes wide open." Regina Petrik/Landtagsabgeordnete "Die Grünen", Burgenland Thank you very much dear Regina for your statement and your support of the campaign against deportations to Afghanistan. It is urgently necessary that also political persons ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan - Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz
"Afghanistan is safe and Corona is just a flu. Stop fact-free politics. Stop the deportations to Afghanistan." Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz/Sprecher Asylkoordination Österreich https://www.asyl.at/de/ Thank you very much dear Lukas! Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz is a lawyer, a person of facts. For years he has been campaigning against injustice and arbitrariness in the asylum system with great personal commitment and together with other NGOs. Lukas therefore knows very well ...
#Afghanistan #ChangingTheNarrative - Ehsan Jan
What a great joy, Ehsan, who came to Austria with his two brothers in 2014, has completed his LAP/Painter and Coating Technician. Dear Ehsan, we all congratulate you from the bottom of our hearts, great achievement. Since it is not possible for the politically responsible people to report on the many successes of the young Afghans, for whatever reason, we do it. And with great pleasure! A ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan - Clemens Potocnik
Clemens Potocnik is a medical doctor/cardiologist, he and his family support my work, a young man from Afghanistan has been staying with them temporarily. And he is my cousin, which I am very happy about. "Sending ......... well-integrated young men back to a war-torn country is simply irrational and ideologically twisted". Thank you very much dear Clemens for supporting the campaign and your actions. #ChangingTheNarrative Why ...
Afghanistan - Meeting in the Afghan embassy/Vienna, with Ambassador Khojesta Fana Ebrahimkhel
Yesterday's meeting with the esteemed Ambassador of Afghanistan, Ms. Ebrahimkhel.Our major wish is to change the narrative!In Austria there are a lot of wonderful people from Afghanistan, living with a strong and lovely connection to Austrians and Austria.We all need to work together in order for the Austrians to realize how beautiful the Afghan culture is and that Afghanistan and ...
#StopDeportationToAfghanistan - Herbert Langthaler
Today with a contribution from a dear and much appreciated colleague, Herbert Langthaler/co-founder of Asylkoordination Österreich. "The ongoing insecurity, the fear of deportation to the most unsafe country in the world, is wearing people down......" Herbert Langthaler has not let himself be worn down despite the great challenges, he has been working for people on the run for almost 30 years. He is not only responsible for ...
#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 ...