#migrant rights

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The 25-year-old man, who came to Canada in 2018 as an international student, and has since worked in Edmonton, Alberta as a nurse, ran out of options this year when his work visa expired and his application for refugee status was rejected. Uganda has become one of the most dangerous countries for LGBTQ+ people this year, with the introduction of its harsh Anti-Homosexuality Act. The act, which was signed into law in May, calls for the death penalty for certain same-sex activities, and has prompted a torrent of abuse against LGBTQ+ people in the country, from both citizens and police.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #refugees #migrant rights #deportation #LGBTQ+ #homophobia #lgbt issues

[bfpnola]

hey! as y’all know, Better Future Program is an entirely youth-run nonprofit and we provide over 3,000 FREE social justice, mental health, and academic resources. but because the majority of our volunteers are full-time students in middle school, high school, and college, we need YOUR help!

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#reaux speaks #jewish #muslim #migrant rights #immigration #climate change #intersectional environmentalism #antisemitism #islamophobia #reproductive justice #reproductive health #classism #children’s rights #educational equity #fat liberation #fatphobia #body neutrality #resources

[queen-mabs-revenge]

just in case anyone was thinking of posting some bullshit about ireland being 'one of the only good countries' this st patrick's day, this is how the irish government is getting ready for the weekend's festivities in dublin. fucking hideous disgrace.

as irish politicians prepare to hand a bowl of fucking shamrocks to genocide joe abroad (assuring him continued use of shannon airport for us military transport), and forcibly displace homeless asylum seekers and destroy their belongings domestically, ireland deserves to be excoriated, not celebrated this weekend.

#ireland #st patricks day #migrant rights #there are no 'good' countries under capitalism #descriptions in alt text #source linked

[reasonsforhope]

Last Wednesday [October 18], WBEZ (91.5 FM) reported that a civic leader of St. Louis visited the Chicago Mayor’s Office to discuss a program whereby migrants from Venezuela could be brought to the Gateway to the West in order to ease the migrant crisis gripping the Windy City just as winter temperatures arrive.

It’s estimated that 20,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, have arrived in Chicago this year, and finding them places to stay has been challenging.

The WBEZ report details that St. Louis is currently in a decline of population and employees, and some in the city believe the migrants and the city would be better off long-term if they moved there.

The International Institute of St. Louis announced the new Latino Outreach Program last month with the aim of both attracting and accommodating migrants arriving from Latin America.

Karlos Ramirez, vice president of Latino Outreach for the International Institute, told WBEZ the as-yet unconfirmed agreement “could be the potential for a great relationship between both cities,” adding that “if the [migrants] are going to be in a better place, St. Louis is going to be in a better place, and Chicago is going to be in a better place, I think everybody wins.”

Ramirez says that any next step would have to include sharing details and practices between Latino Outreach and its partners with their counterparts in Chicago.

Fox News 2 reached out to the St. Louis Mayor’s Office for comment, and the representative shared a statement released previously in response to the WBEZ report.

“While the City has not had direct conversations on welcoming more migrants from Chicago, the City of St. Louis has had a longstanding cooperative relationship with the International Institute to welcome immigrants and refugees to the St. Louis area.”

Other migrant welcome programs in the city, such as the Arch Grants program, saw great success in Afghans fleeing the country in August of 2021, and the International Institute modeled its efforts for Latino Outreach on this success.

-via Good News Network, November 6, 2023. Video via Fox 2 St. Louis, October 20, 2023. Note: Fox local affiliate networks are not the same as Fox News, and many are editorially independent/not The Actual Worst.

Note: If you're in St. Louis, you can check out the International Institute of St. Louis to get involved or call your local representatives to support!

#immigration #united states #us politics #venezuela #illinois #chicago #st. louis #latino #migrant rights #good news #hope #missouri #Youtube

[joyfulsoulunknown]

It's really worsening here in kakuma refugee camp located in Turkana county of Kenya as we lgbtiq individuals facing horrific and difficult situations like police brutality and natives of Turkana, continued attacks with petrol bombs towards our shelters, regularly discrimination, persecution, daily threats with pangas, iron bars, raping of lesbians and others selling off their bodies to restort food and sanitary items like pads, facing scarcity of food and others seeking food from garbage disposal dustbin food,we have been trying to reach out and even writing emails to organizations but non of them have replied to our cause so we decided to create our own fundraising website so that we can atleast survive this horrible situation with some basic necessities mostly food, pads, clothes, soap, mattress, mosquito nets etc so we're here kindly requesting for your support, assistance, advocacy awareness and donation on our GoFundMe page link or sending funds through world remit, PayPal and send wavehttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-group-of-lgbtq-community-in-kakuma?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet

#lgbtq community #lgbt pride #mutual aid #queer aid #trans #transgender #lgbtqia #queer artist #gofundme #migrant rights #mutu terjamin

[arctic-hands]

Environmental and humanitarian organizations swiftly criticized the Biden administration’s move to proceed with more border wall construction in southern Texas. “You’re walling off not only people from the river, but wildlife, trying to get away from the river when there’s a flood or getting to the water,” said Jim Chapman, the president of Friends of the Wildlife Corridor, an environmental non-profit in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. “That’s basically the only water there is. It’s basically horrible.” Laiken Jordahl of the Center for Biological Diversity similarly noted that the national corridor along the Rio Grande River, especially in the National Wildlife Refuge, is “the last ribbon of habitat for a lot of species.” “Bulldozing a border wall through the heart of that habitat is absolutely devastating,” Jordahl said. “There’s not a lot of nature left in South Texas.” Roberto Lopez, an advocate with the Beyond Borders program at the Texas Civil Rights Project, drew parallels between the Biden administration’s announcement and the president’s predecessors. “President Obama built Bush’s wall and now Biden is building Trump’s,” Lopez said. “In the Rio Grande Valley, it’s been consistent that the federal government has been building border wall over the last several years, and this is just a continuation of those policies.” “I’m from South Texas. I’m from these areas. It feels like a slap in the face," he added. "It feels like bollards are going up, when infrastructure in these communities is struggling.”

motherfucker!

#border wall #joe biden #immigration #migrant rights

[sparksinthenight]

News from around the world:

#abortion #abortions #abortion is healthcare #abortion rights #war criminals #war crimes #putin #fuck putin #putin is a murderer #putin is a war criminal #migrants #migrant rights #refugees #environmental issues #environnement #environmentalism #environmental activism #human rights #social justice #social issues

[daily-castaneda]

David Castañeda advocating for (unacccompanied) migrant and refugee children on ¡Despierta América! (22nd November).

I don’t speak Spanish, but David has advocated for this organisation that provides legal help in the past. ([email protected])

Caption from his Instagram post explaining what this organisation is about below the cut. (Instagram Link)

[email protected] Any child, under the age of 18. undocumented that is locked up at the US border and crossed between 2016-2020. Or a minor living in the US undocumented and with no parents that crossed between 2016-2020 Send an email. They will help pro-bono. Free. To analyze their case, work on their release and apply for asylum in the US! Cualquier niño, menor de 18 años, indocumentado que esté encerrado en la frontera de EE. UU. y haya cruzado entre 2016-2020. O un menor que vive en los EE. UU. indocumentado y sin padres que cruzó entre 2016-2020 Envíe un correo electrónico. Ellos ayudarán pro-bono. Libre. ¡Para analizar su caso, trabajar en su liberación y solicitar asilo en EE.UU.!

#david castañeda #diego hargreeves #the umbrella academy #tua #refugee rights #migrant rights

[goblincow]

This is Loraine Mponela, a migrant to the UK who works with Stand Up To Racism and is a champion of Status Now 4 All, an organisation that seeks to help refugees and migrants be acknowledged as legal citizens in the UK.

Here she talks about how she survived the long fight to receive status, which she finally received last year (after 10 years of fighting, which maddeningly is short compared to the 20+ years many have to wait).

She's is a poet, a brilliantly powerful speaker and an inspiration of mine, and I hope that you watch this video and subscribe to hear more about what life is really like for migrants fighting for their rights in the UK.

No more murdering refugees by leaving them to drown on dinghies and small boats in the channel. No more endless waiting living on less than enough to survive without the same rights as other workers, being ruthlessly exploited to fuel essential organisations like the NHS and being neglected and abused by the government at every turn.

Migrants and refugees seeking asylum in the UK have no legal route to do so and if they somehow manage to make it here they are abused, dehumanised, detained & kidnapped by human traffickers, and avoiding or surviving this leads them to a bureaucratic no-mans land, a liminal space where you are treated as less than the other people who live in your community while the government profits from migration and relies on it to turn the cogs of the capitalist machine.

We all suffer from this system, regardless of the colour of our skin or the place of our birth. Migrants and refugees bear the brunt of it but it divides and weakens the entire working class. This is why socialists oppose borders.

Loraine's experience is one of how solidarity and community can overcome the difficulties and barriers placed in front of migrants and refugees, and she talks about how a better future is possible through anti-racist activism.

Please listen to what she has to say to learn about her experience and learn what you can do to support refugee and migrant rights.

#migrant rights #refugee rights #end the hostile environment #no borders #anti racism

[catrocketship]

No Pride in Police

#brisband #australia #pride #no cops at pride #immigration rights #migrant rights #close the camps #LGBTQ #refugees #asylum seekers #pride2023 #inspo #other people's art #other

[bfpnola]

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[feministfocus]

The Humans Who Feed Us

by Helena Donato-Sapp

Youth scholar, activist, poet, and speaker Helena Donato-Sapp supports the #humanswhofeedus project by Justice for Migrant Women www.justice4women.org. Watch this profile of activist Monica Ramirez with a special shout-out to GLI!

#feminism #migrant workers #young feminists #youth activism #dolores huerta #migrant women #migrant rights #intersectional feminism #Youtube

[joyfulsoulunknown]

Hello world am justice mayanja an lgbtiq human rights defender in Kenya kakuma refugee camp and situation in Kakuma Camp is really unbearable. All LGBTQIA+ people are under attack almost every day. We had a friend poisoned and many blessed because of the hatred that reigns in the camp- Kenya is on the way to introduce severe anti LGBTQIA+ laws on his territory,. Nobody gives us food, health care, security. We have remained 7 lgbtiq individuals and we have a chance to flee to South Sudan, some refugees went there and because of war they have been ressettled in Western Countries. We want to go to South Sudan together with our group and we need money for the transport of 550$ We ask you to help us again with your donations so we can flee all together for a better life. Thanks once more for your support. God bless you! Through donating anything you may have even if it's little on our GoFundMe page link but can make aworld of The situation in Kakuma Camp is really unbearable. All LGBTQIA+ people are under attack almost every day. We had a friend poisoned and many blessed because of the hatred that reigns in the camp- Kenya is on the way to introduce severe anti LGBTQIA+ laws on his territory,. Nobody gives us food, health care, security. We have a chance to flee to South Sudan, some refugees went there and because of war they have been ressettled in Western Countries. We want to go to South Sudan together with our group and we need money for the transport. We ask you to help us again with your donations so we can flee all together for a better life. Thanks once more for your support. God bless you! to our cause

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-group-of-lgbtq-community-in-kakuma?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet

#lgbtq community #lgbt pride #mutual aid #lgbtqia #queer artist #queer aid #transgender #trans #gofundme #migrant rights

[afc-agitprop]

Look, I know that Gavin Newsom is like, the only Democrat that actually has a chance of winning nation-wide in 2024 but, is there really no one better than a guy who killed a migrant workers labor rights bill to keep his own migrant workers underpaid?

#california #gavin newsom #labor rights #migrant rights

[head-post]

Migration pact jeopardises human rights – Amnesty International

Eve Geddie, head of Amnesty International’s Brussels office, stated that the Asylum and Migration Pact adopted by the European Parliament on April 10 “weaken the right to asylum” and enshrine in law an ineffective approach to migration policy, according to Euractiv.

The pact, a set of nine interdependent files, is the result of almost 10 years of debate and negotiation at EU level. It simplifies asylum procedures, strengthens border security and creates a new “solidarity” mechanism between member states.

Geddie argued that the pact provided an opportunity to take a more people-centred approach to EU migration policy, “but what we have instead is a set of policies that are really going to increase people’s suffering at every step of their [migration] journey.”

Ultimately, it’s going to weaken the right to asylum.

She was concerned about some of the pact’s provisions, including a new “solidarity” mechanism that would allow frontline EU countries experiencing “migratory pressure” to request the resettlement of migrants in other bloc members. Otherwise, the latter would be obliged to provide first-arrival countries with additional money, material aid such as surveillance tools, and personnel.

“This means member states can opt out of their right to uphold asylum. We’ve created a legal fiction of non-entry.”

Read more HERE

#world news #world politics #news #europe #european news #european union #eu politics #eu news #migration #migration services #migration policy #migration crisis #immigration #immigration services #immigration policy #migrants #migrant crisis #migrant rights #amnesty international #eve geddie

[plethoraworldatlas]

Migrant rights defenders on Thursday cheered a federal court ruling ordering U.S. Customs and Border Protection to stop holding undocumented minors in squalid open-air detention sites in Southern California and to transfer all children held in such locations to "safe and sanitary" spaces.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) contended that people held in the open-air detention sites (OADS) are not yet in U.S. custody. However, Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles issued a 12-page ruling that found migrant children are entitled to protection under the Flores Settlement Agreement, which established national minimum standards for the treatment of detained minors.

Gee found that CBP violated the 1997 agreement by detaining children in unsafe and unsanitary conditions, failing to properly feed them, and taking too long to process them at seven sites near San Diego and Jacumba Hot Springs. Migrants detained in these OADS have waited as long as five days before being transfered to indoor lockups.

"The court's decision to recognize CBP's custody of children in open-air detention sites is a crucial step towards ensuring accountability and protection for vulnerable migrants," said Lilian Serrano, director of Southern Border Communities Coalition, a case plaintiff.

"There are minimum standards that must be followed if CBP will be detaining families, children, and other people," Serrano added. "We are pleased to see the federal court acknowledge this fundamental truth. Now we expect the agency to comply with the court's order immediately."

As the number of migrants entering the United States without authorization has surged during President Joe Biden's tenure, U.S. border authorities have forced migrants—including people legally seeking asylum—into OADS, where they face what case plaintiff National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) called "profoundly inhumane conditions."

NCYL said migrant children are "forced to take shelter from harsh rain and wind in porta-potties, burn toxic brush and garbage to stay warm, and survive on nothing more than a granola bar and a bottle of water each day."

...

"But it remains a tragedy that a court had to direct the government to do what basic human decency and the law clearly require," Desai added. "We expect CBP to comply with the court's order swiftly, and we remain committed to holding CBP accountable for meeting the most rudimentary needs of children in their legal custody, including food, shelter, and basic medical care."

#us politics #migrant rights #immigrants #immigrant rights #immigration #biden administration #fuck border patrol #border patrol #open air prison