NO DEPORTATIONS TO IRAQ!
DEFEND REFUGEE RIGHTS FOR KURDS AND IRAQIS
STOP BRITISH GOVERNMENT POLICY OF DEPORTATIONS OF ASYLUM SEEKERS TO IRAQI KURDISTAN!
SOLIDARITY WITH OTHERS RESISTING DEPORTATION TO DANGEROUS COUNTRIES
PUBLIC MEETING
MONDAY 26 MARCH 2007
7 TO 9PM
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Westminster SW1
Committee Room 10
Speakers: John McDonnell MP; Jean Lambert MEP; Dashty Jamal, International Federation of Iraqi Refugees & CSDIRAQ; Tim Finch, Refugee Council; Arun Kundnani, Institute of Race Relations; Emma Ginn, NCADC; Kurdish Asylum seeker who was detained; Asylum Support Appeals Project; Campaign to Stop Deportations to DR Congo (invited)
Come and hear the above speakers and take part in a discussion on:
· Why Iraq including Kurdistan is not safe
· How rejected asylum seekers are still made destitute
· What can be done to help 1.7 million Iraqis displaced within Iraq and more than 1.7 million fled to neighbouring countries
· Why the Home Office still removes people to dangerous places like Iraqi Kurdistan and Democratic Republic of Congo
· What we can do to stop the Home Office’s removal policy
For further information, please contact Sarah Parker on 0208 809 0633 or email sarahp107@hotmail.com or Dashty Jamal on 07856032991 or d.jamal@ntlworld.com
www.csdiraq.com
Donations urgently needed to support the work of CSDIraq: please send cheques made payable to Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq to PO Box 1575 Ilford 1GI 3BZ. National trade union affiliations £100.
Sunday, March 18
Iraqi women's rights activist threatened
Houzan Mahmoud, a leading activist in the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq, has received a death threat from Islamist groups who want to smash any hope of women's rights.
The death threat, delivered via e-mail, read, "With the permission of Great God, we will kill you either in Iraq or in London by the middle of March, because you are campaigning against Islam. You should be sent to God for punishment." Houzan Mahmoud, who is currently based in London, is originally from Iraqi Kurdistan, where she recently led a campaign against the imposition of Islamic Sharia law in the proposed constitution.
Ms. Mahmoud, aged 34, is an outspoken Iraqi feminist, secularist, journalist, and human rights activist. She has resolved to persist in her work, despite being targeted by Ansar al-Islam. In a letter to MADRE on February 27, Ms. Mahmoud stated, "I will continue doing what I am doing now, going around the world cultivating support for women in Iraq and Kurdistan as well as exposing the violence and gender apartheid that Islamists are imposing on millions of women in the region."
Originally from MADRE
The death threat, delivered via e-mail, read, "With the permission of Great God, we will kill you either in Iraq or in London by the middle of March, because you are campaigning against Islam. You should be sent to God for punishment." Houzan Mahmoud, who is currently based in London, is originally from Iraqi Kurdistan, where she recently led a campaign against the imposition of Islamic Sharia law in the proposed constitution.
Ms. Mahmoud, aged 34, is an outspoken Iraqi feminist, secularist, journalist, and human rights activist. She has resolved to persist in her work, despite being targeted by Ansar al-Islam. In a letter to MADRE on February 27, Ms. Mahmoud stated, "I will continue doing what I am doing now, going around the world cultivating support for women in Iraq and Kurdistan as well as exposing the violence and gender apartheid that Islamists are imposing on millions of women in the region."
Originally from MADRE
'Hands off Iraqi oil' teach-in
'HANDS OFF IRAQI OIL' TEACH-IN
11am-5pm, Saturday 24 March 2007
Union Chapel, Compton Ave, London N1 2XD
Tube: Highbury and Islington
Map: http://tinyurl.com/22y2lc
With:
* Greg Muttitt from PLATFORM (author 'Crude Designs: The rip-off of Iraq's
oil wealth')
* Ewa Jasiewicz from Naftana (UK Support Committee for the General Union of
Oil Employees)
Supported by: Iraq Occupation Focus, Jubilee Iraq, Naftana, Platform, Voices
UK and War on Want.
For the Iraqi people war and occupation has led to hundreds of thousands of
deaths, relentless insecurity and crippling poverty. But for foreign oil
companies the desperate situation in Iraq is a chance to take control of
Iraq's oil and make massive profits at the expense of its people.
A new law that would transfer control of most of Iraq's oil production from
the public sector to multinational oil companies through long-term contracts
of up to 20 or 30 years, now looks set to be rubber-stamped by Iraq's
Parliament in the next few months. Whilst the US and British governments,
the IMF and the big multinational oil companies have all been active in
shaping the new law - which will tie the hands of future governments,
depriving them of democratic control over the country's main natural
resource - the Iraqi public and Iraqi civil society have been excluded from
the process.
Join us on 24th March to:
* find out more about the new law, the companies involved, and the US and UK
Governments' roles in this smash and grab law
* make plans to take action to stop British companies from joining the race
to carve up Iraq's oil wealth.
For more information about the campaign visit www.HandsOffIraqiOil.org.
11am-5pm, Saturday 24 March 2007
Union Chapel, Compton Ave, London N1 2XD
Tube: Highbury and Islington
Map: http://tinyurl.com/22y2lc
With:
* Greg Muttitt from PLATFORM (author 'Crude Designs: The rip-off of Iraq's
oil wealth')
* Ewa Jasiewicz from Naftana (UK Support Committee for the General Union of
Oil Employees)
Supported by: Iraq Occupation Focus, Jubilee Iraq, Naftana, Platform, Voices
UK and War on Want.
For the Iraqi people war and occupation has led to hundreds of thousands of
deaths, relentless insecurity and crippling poverty. But for foreign oil
companies the desperate situation in Iraq is a chance to take control of
Iraq's oil and make massive profits at the expense of its people.
A new law that would transfer control of most of Iraq's oil production from
the public sector to multinational oil companies through long-term contracts
of up to 20 or 30 years, now looks set to be rubber-stamped by Iraq's
Parliament in the next few months. Whilst the US and British governments,
the IMF and the big multinational oil companies have all been active in
shaping the new law - which will tie the hands of future governments,
depriving them of democratic control over the country's main natural
resource - the Iraqi public and Iraqi civil society have been excluded from
the process.
Join us on 24th March to:
* find out more about the new law, the companies involved, and the US and UK
Governments' roles in this smash and grab law
* make plans to take action to stop British companies from joining the race
to carve up Iraq's oil wealth.
For more information about the campaign visit www.HandsOffIraqiOil.org.
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