In the current situation, the refugee receiving countries want to make their laws worse. These measures violate the International Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Convention.
They clearly violate the internationally recognized rights of refugees and asylum seekers. These measures have brought the need for refuges to act together.
It is therefore necessary to act together immediately to create united legal, social, and political action of asylum seekers and refugees.
On this basis and as an answer to this necessity, we, the asylum seekers and recognized refugees, found our international organization.
Based on the International Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Convention, we have chosen a safe place to live, where we can live according to human rights law.
We regard the defense of the asylum right as a human right and not as a privilege that can, at anytime, be defeated or changed by each economic/political power.
The establishment of our international union can be led back to the sit-in strikes of the asylum seekers in the months of October and November 2000 in Germany and to the Demonstrations on the 30th of November 2000 in front of the refugee center in Bern, Switzerland.
We, in the International Union of Refugees and Asylum Seekers, have come to the following agreement:
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Asylum is our human right and not a privilege.
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No application for asylum can remain Exhaustion.
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Asylum seekers and recognized refugees should:
Obtain permission to work, social security, health insurance, the right to education, relatively good standard of living, (the right to arrange one’s life), the right to political activism, freedom of expression, the right to publish our work, and to obtain the same rights of the citizens of each receiving country.
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Orders of imprisonment and deportation of asylum seekers should consistently be abolished.
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Employment offices should arrange for the education and qualification jobs of asylum seekers and recognized refugees. They should not distinguish between the local citizens in order to prevent the exploitation of asylum seekers and recognized refugees on the labor market.
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The length of stay of asylum seekers in refugee camps should not be longer than three months.
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The cost of attorney and court costs of the asylum process should be assumed by the state or government authorities.
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The time period for deciding each asylum application should not exceed six months.
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Asylum applicants and recognized refugees must have the right to be unrestrictedly and unconditionally politically active against despotic and fascist leaders in countries such as Iran.
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The right to family must be taken into consideration.
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One of the most important tasks of asylum seekers and recognized refugees is to carry out a widespread campaign to help unveil and get rid of the despotic government of the countries we have fled.
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Each asylum seeker and each recognized refugee, who accepts the previous eleven principles and agreements and who pays her/his membership contribution, can acquire membership of the Union and become active in her/his place of residence. The membership contribution serve to finance the regular costs of the Union. The contributions and the expenses of the Union are supervised by the chosen representatives in the states or countries.
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For the establishment of the Union in each country the central branches, and the cells are necessary.
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The central Union of a country chooses eight people to the board . Five of them deal with the legal matters and three with the political questions. The speaker of the board is chosen by these eight people.
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Besides the regular regional and national meetings, the members of the Uniion of each country will have a general meeting to discuss the changes in their current situation and to review suggestions. In the case of an emergency, members of the Union or the board can suggest to call special meetings.
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The board of a country is elected at the first general meeting every year.
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The decisions and direction of the Union work will be determined in each country.
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The members of the board, who are responsible for legal matters, must establish and maintain contact with lawyers, human rights organizations, people who defend
human rights, freedom loving organizations and parties, critical politically active people, student organizations, journalist organizations, workers groups, labor unions, and legal associations in order to convince them of the goals of the Union.
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Besides the legal matters and political activities, the Union plan continuous protest actions and demonstrations in different countries and states . The subject of actions and demonstrations concerning the current situations of the mother countries, and also to defend the right of refugees, will be determined in each country.
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Besides the certain speakers for each country and states, the union will choose a Secretary General. The duty of Secretary General is to coordinate the activities in deferent Countries and states. This will be determined by board of each country and states.
