From Tripoli to Geneva 2!
- Refugees in Libya
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September 12-13, 2025
UNHCR = UNFAIR!
IOM = NASTY!
Join the protests at the headquarters of these institutions of human rights violations in Geneva - Come to the Demonstration in Geneva on 13th of September 2025
UNHCR = UNFAIR On Friday, the 12th of September 2025, Refugees in Libya will hold a press conference in front of the headquarter of UNHCR, presenting the „Book of Shame“. It includes dozens of complaints and accusations from refugees and migrants in Libya, Tunisia and Niger. They all experienced non-assistance and ignorance, negligence and rejections from an institution, which pretends humanity is central to its cause. But instead of fulfilling its mandate to protect refugees, asylum seekers, and people on the move, the UNHCR is protecting European borders and has become an instrument of European externalisation policies.
In December 2022 Refugees in Libya started to organize the UNFAIR-campaign towards UNHCR with a first manifestation and demonstration in front of its headquarter in Geneva. Now, in September 2025, we will come back as the situation has not improved rather even worsened. Within the last 18 months through a new hotline project Refugees in Libya and the supporting alliance have collected hundreds of testimonies, who witnessed continuous violations of human rights. UNHCR did not care about it and was unreachable for these people.
IOM = NASTY In Libya we have known their concept of blackmailing since many years. People are detained and kept in unbearable situations, while the, „International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is offering the onliest solution: to return back to the country of origin. In Tunisia we recently experienced this blackmailing system again: in parallel to brutal attacks, raids and evictions of makeshift settlements, IOM staff appear to desperate people on the move to advertise „voluntary return“. All over the world IOM execute their "migration management“ with so-called voluntary return programs - as an integral part of inhuman border regimes.
On 13th of September 2025 we will demonstrate in front of the IOM- and UNHCR headquarters to denounce their respective abusive practices. We will confront their humanitarian facade with the realities and the truth by numerous voices of testimonies, by recordings but also by direct speeches of refugee activists, who reached Europe and are not willing to forget their hurts and also not their comrades, who are still suffering and struggling in Libya, Tunisia or Niger.
This event will be the occasion to denounce the continuity of European and national migration policies. Indeed, a large camp for asylum seekers has just opened in Geneva. In semi-prison conditions, people are now being held for several months between the airport tarmac and a highway.
The Demonstration in Geneva is part of a transnational chain of actions in reference to the 10th anniversary of the summer of migration and the continuous struggles for freedom of movement and equal rights, see https://trans-border.net/index.php/chain-of-action-2025/
Meeting points
Friday, 12th Of September: 11:00 CEST in front of UNHCR-Headquarter in Rue de Montbrillant 94 for a press conference and the presentation of the Book of Shame;
Saturday, 13th of September: 14:00 CEST in front of IOM-headquarter in Geneva at 17 Route des Morillons in 1218 Grand-Saconnex for an opening manifestation, afterwards the demonstration will pass by UNHCR headquarter with another protest and then moving down town for a final manifestation.
Contact: info@refugeesinlibya.org
Website: www.refugeesinlibya.org
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