Their father drowned in the Mediterranean - now the family is facing severe persecution in Sweden
We are now helping a Christian Afghan family who were forced to flee to Sweden after their conversion to christianity. The father and two of the children drowned on the journey across the Mediterranean sea. In Sweden the mother and her three remaining children are facing severe persecution. The mother and the daughters have been threathend with death and attacked several times. The persecutors have scratched the IS symbols on their door. Although the family has been forced to move the persecuters have always found them. The daughters have been scratched with knives, marked to have converted from Islam when they were on their way to church. The threats come from both the home country and also from countrymen in Sweden who threatens to cut their throats if they return to Afghanistan.
Yet the Swedish Migration Board does not find the family’s Christian faith to be genuine enough.
We are therefore appealing their case and if we are not granted leave to appeal we will bring their case to the UN’s Committee Against Torture and we need your help!
Would you like to to help Batala and her family? Information about how to donate you will find here
Thank you!
Workshop & Study Visit Uppsala Sweden
A workshop & study visit was organized in Uppsala Sweden between 9-10 March 2017 as part of the transnational project Strenghtening multidisciplinary cooperation to ensure an effective referral, assistance, rights protection for victims of human trafficking, financed by the European Commission, Justice Program JUST/2015/JACC/AG/VICT/9221
The project is coordinated by the Romanian organization, Association Pro Refugiu in partnership with Scandinavian Human Rights Lawyers Sweden, Caritas International Belgium, Association Trave Iniciativas para la Economia Social y Solidaria Spain, Center for the Study of Democracy Bulgaria. The project benefits from the support of several associate partners from Romania (National Institute for Magistracy, Bucharest Bar, National College of Social Workers), Sweden (Uppsala University Center for Research on Addiction U-FOLD and Hela Manniskan i Malmö Organization), Spain (General Prosecutor Office -Immigration Department), Bulgaria (National Legal Aid Bureau).
The event gathered professionals (lawyers, social workers, psychologists/psychotherapists, doctors, police officer, experts, researchers) with expertise on issues related to human trafficking and victims’ assistance. An event that allowed the Romanian, Swedish, Belgium, Spanish and Bulgarian specialists to exchange knowledge in areas in which they activate and also allow to learn more on the Swedish intervention methods to combat human trafficking and assist the victims (strategies to combat human trafficking and legal aid in Sweden; support and assistance to victims of human trafficking; how to cope with traumatized persons-rehabilitation and treatment; the correlation between drugs and human trafficking; anti-trafficking strategy from the hotel business in Sweden to combat human trafficking).
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