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“I won’t pay a cent for my freedom of movement“
Miloud L. Cherif in refugee camp of Zella-Mehlis

Flüchtlingsinitiative Wittenberg, the voice Sachsen-anhalt together with Nolager Halle, Antira Magdeburg held a meeting in Möhlau on 21.01.2012 to discuss the response of the local government parliament (Kreistag Wittenberg) on matters concerning refugees in Wittenberg.

Flüchtlingsinitiative Wittenberg are strongly criticising the competent authorities of not doing enough in what concerns equal treatments between families and singles in Wittenberg therefore ,demanding for an equal treatments for all refugees in Wittenberg !

Outcome of the Workshop:
The Action days against Country embassy deportation collaboration will begin on Tuesday 8 May and end on Thursday 10 May in Berlin. A team of Refugee activists are working on the call which will be sent out for imput and futher discussion at the Nationwide preparation meeting in February.

Call to Abolish the Residenzpflicht! “I won’t pay a cent for my freedom of movement“ by Miloud L. Cherif in Zella-Mehlis https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2413

links to The VOICE Refugee Forum - Protest and Articles on Frontex: https://thevoiceforum.org/search/node/FRONTEX

Frontex signs Working Arrangement with Nigeria
19-01-2012
Rose Uzoma, Comptroller-General,...

Warsaw, January 19, 2012 — Frontex and representatives of the Nigerian Immigration Service signed a working arrangement at Frontex’s Warsaw HQ on January 19. The Federal Republic of Nigeria was represented by Mrs. Rose Uzoma, Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service, who signed the working arrangement. Frontex was represented by Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen. Though signed by a representative of the Nigerian Immigration Service, the arrangement extends also to other Nigerian authorities and agencies involved in border and migration management, including the Nigeria Police Force and the National Agency for the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

Ilkka Laitinen said after the signing ceremony: “It gives me great pleasure to conclude this working arrangement with such an important partner in the development of integrated border management. The mutually beneficial exchanges of information and expertise are an important element of Frontex’s approach. We look forward to working together to promote gradual development of a sustainable partnership.”

Emphasising full respect of human rights by both parties, the agreement includes provisions for the maintenance of structured dialogue as well as for the establishment of contact points in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to develop communication and information sharing in the field of border management activities of the Nigerian authorities and their Member State counterparts. Specific exchanges between Frontex and the Nigerian authorities are foreseen with Frontex’s Risk Analysis Unit, with the participation of the competent Nigerian authorities in relevant meetings. Capacity-building measures may also be undertaken with the aim of enhancing integrated border management, including in the areas of training as well as research and development activities. Representatives of the relevant Nigerian authorities may also be invited to participate in Frontex Joint Operations, in an observer capacity, to be decided on a case-by-case basis by the Executive Director of Frontex, as well as having the possibility of seconding national Border Police Officers to Focal Point Offices at the external borders of the Member States of the EU. Development is also foreseen in cooperation with Frontex-coordinated joint return operations as well as in Pilot Projects and the field of operational interoperability. The working agreement enters into force the day after its signing.

This is the fifteenth Working Arrangement Frontex has signed with the competent authorities of third countries, and the first to be signed since the Agency’s revised regulation came into force on December 12, 2011. The Agency has previously formalised cooperation with the authorities of countries including Albania, Belarus, Canada, Cape Verde, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the United States of America.
http://www.frontex.europa.eu/newsroom/news_releases/art118.html
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Frontex: Accord avec le Nigeria

L'accord a été conclu le 19 janvier 2012 a Varsovie. Il est entré en force aujourd'hui. C'est le Service Général de l'Immigration du Nigéria qui a signé l'accord, mais il s'étend aussi aux autres départements engagés dans le controle des frontiers, notamment la police et l'agence pour la prévention du trafic de personnes.
Des points de contacts (contact points) devraient etre établis au nigéria.
Le Nigeria pourra désormais etre invité en tant qu'observateur sur des operations jointes, cela sera décidé au cas par car par le directeur executif de Frontex

Report from Anti-Deportation Workshop on 14.01.11 in Stuttgart
Outcome of the Workshop:
The Action days against Country embassy deportation collaboration will begin on Tuesday 8 May and end on Thursday 10 May in Berlin. A team of Refugee activist are working on the call which will be sent out for imput and futher discussion at the Nationwide preparation meeting in February. https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2412

Deportation to Nigeria
Frontex signs Working Arrangement with Nigeria on Deportation of Africans from Europe

links to The VOICE Protest and Articles on Frontex:
https://thevoiceforum.org/search/node/FRONTEX

Report from Anti-Deportation Workshop on 14.01.11 in Stuttgart

Outcome of the Workshop:
The Action days against Country embassy deportation collaboration will begin on Tuesday 8 May and end on Thursday 10 May in Berlin. A team of Refugee activists are working on the call which will be sent out for imput and futher discussion at the Nationwide preparation meeting in February.

Report from Anti-Deportation Workshop on 14.01.11 in Stuttgart

As counter acton against the waxing menace of the EU deportation Regime, Refugees Activist from different parts of Germany met at an Anti-deportation Workshop organised by The Voice Refugee Forum on Saturday 14th January in Stuttgart.

Some Active refugees of The Voice and Caravan Network from Niedersachsen, Bayern, Thüringen, Sachsen Anhalt arrived a day ahead to discuss crucial internal issues of solidarity targeted at empowering the Baden Württemberg coordination of The Voice Refugee Forum deportation campaign and the self Organisation structure of Refugees in the Region.

The workshop is part of The VOICE Refugee Forum warm up events to the planned acton againsgt the EU war on Migration through the empowering the potential of Victims Civil disobidience as an imperative to their self - Determination. Various forms of abuses against refugees were identified and the need to focused on Political problems like Restriction of Movement (Residentzpflicht) and deportation were critically analysed with a clearification that the social problems will automatically adjust itself soon as Political issue become addressed.

Events to promote active involvement of Refugees in the anti deportation networking were highlighted with a focus to mobilise support for the action against Country embassy deportation collaboration with a call on participating refugees to take responsibility of spreading the information within their respective regions.

Guest activist were given the opportunity to share their experiences and discuss the effect of their resistance at different levels while the space was also open for other participating refugees to raise questions and suggestion.

Outcome of the Workshop:

The Action days against Country embassy deportation collaboration will begin on Tuesday 8 May and end on Thursday 10 May in Berlin. A team of Refugee activist are working on the call which will be sent out for imput and futher discussion at the Nationwide preparation meeting in February.

Participating Refugees pledged their commitments to reach other refugees and appealed for the Voice to extend such workshop to the different regions to keep the people informed.

A Refugee conference is being planned for 18.02 in Schwäbisch Gmund. The Refugees in in the process of concluding preparation nd the call will be made public soon.

Strategies of reaching new refugees at the reception center before they are summoned to a hearing of the Fedreal office for Migration just to curb the menance of the misinformation and the awareness on deportation at first hand.

We appeal to all supporting groups to help spreading the information and mobilising Refugees within their respective regions.

We shall accept any form of decentralised event to mobilise refugees in the different regions.
The Workshop participants discussed the racist control manner of the Baden Württemberthe g Police that was extended to Comrade Mihlud L Cherrif from Zehla Mehllis who was selectively picked out and controlled on his way to the Stuttgart in Heilbronn and delayed because he didnt have the so called permission from the district Office.

We demand

Stop to all forms of Racist Control
Stop the Criminalisation of Refugees

The VOICE Refugee Forum Baden Württemberg
The VOICE Refugee Forum Thueringen
Flüchtlings-innitiative Möhlau
Sudanese Refugee Community Niedersachsen
Flüchtlings-innitiative Deggendorf
Flüchlings-innitiative Scwabisch Gmund

Frontex signs Working Arrangement with Nigeria on Deportation of Africans from Europe
https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2406
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Program: Conference of Refugees on Deportation (Anti-deportation Workshop in Stuttgart) by The VOICE Refugee Forum

Date : Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, Time : 10AM - 4PM
Deutsch Text:
Programm: Konferenz von Flüchtlingen über Abschiebung (Anti-Abschiebungs-Workshop) https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2371

Press release of the Plataforma of Refugees and Migrants Berlin and the VOICE Refugee Forum to the:

Germany's Stephen Lawrence
By Eddie Bruce-Jones
11 January 2012, 3:00pm

How can lessons from the Lawrence case be applied to that of Oury Jalloh, who was burned to death in a German police cell seven years ago?

Date : Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, Time : 10AM - 4PM
Deutsch Text:
Programm: Konferenz von Flüchtlingen über Abschiebung (Anti-Abschiebungs-Workshop) https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2371

UPDATE: The VOICE Memo: Do Justice to Oury Jalloh – Rally in Magdeburg https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2364