📣 #IMASolCon | Farwina Faroque of Boycott Divest Sanction - Malaysia stresses the importance of supporting Palestinian women journalists and activists, ensuring that their stories reach the world because these are, in themselves, a fight for their rights.
📣 #IMASolCon | The violence women face, particularly in the context of war and migration, is a critical issue that demands urgent attention. Silan Ergin from Tevgera Jinên Kurd li Ewropa emphasizes that the fight for women’s rights calls on all of us to speak out and take meaningful action in solidarity.
📣 #IMASolCon | María Elena Osorio from the Organisation of Colombian Refugees in Chile sheds light on the profound toll of war and conflict on women, who bear the brunt of gender-based violence as historically entrenched in patriarchy, as well as the violence that their families are subjected to.
📣 #IMASolCon | Joanna Concepcion from Migrante International highlights the active and decisive role of Filipino women, including migrants, in resisting foreign domination and championing national liberation and democracy.
Stop discrimination and violence against migrant and refugee communities! Freedom for migrants and refugees to organize!
The International Migrants Alliance (IMA) strongly condemns the raid on November 21, 2024, which occurred at AMUMRA (Association of Migrant and Refugee Women in Argentina), one of the IMA members based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
📣 #IMASolCon | Masuma Tavakoli of the Afghan Women Support Group highlights the role of [radical] hope in envisioning and fighting for a future where migrants’ and refugees’ rights are upheld and their lives protected from all forms of exploitation.
📣 #IMASolCon | Jaw Tu Hkawng from Asylum Access Malaysia puts forward the call to continuously uphold media ethics in delivering information about the issues and conditions confronting migrants and refugees — a task not only to be carried forth by journalists, but all of us advocates.
📣 #IMASolCon | Mohamed Ali Elduma from the Refugee Empowerment Initiative talks about breaking the cycle of misinformation about refugees, pointing to the role of false propaganda in worsening their dire conditions even more.
Justice for exploited Filipino migrant workers! Protection for all migrant workers!
The International Migrants Alliance expresses grave concern over the dire situation faced by 11 Filipino migrant workers who were forced to live in container vans in Auckland, Aotearoa. The migrant workers were promised a better livelihood by recruitment agencies but only found themselves in such exploitative living and working conditions.
📣 #IMASolCon | Alice Taja from the Cameroon/Central African community charts the promise to keep struggling and working for a safe and peaceful world for migrants, refugees, and displaced peoples.
📣 #IMASolCon | From Teen Health International, Comfort Wobil Brima says that the task to educate, popularize, and deepen the understanding of local communities about the struggles of displaced peoples is pivotal in advancing solidarity.
📣 #IMASolCon | Ahmad (Tim) Jofri from the Iranian community notes that finishing formal education is not a complete safeguard against unemployment and the systemic design of extractive labor and forced migration.
Victor Yeimo of Komite Nasional Papua Barat underscores the importance of collectivization in the people’s resistance and movement organizing, forged by a sense of solidarity to strengthen and advance our goals.
Hafsar Tameesuddin from the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network makes the necessary reminder that no fight is won alone.
📣 #IMASolCon | Eni Lestari, Chairperson of IMA, asserted during the conference that migrants, under a capitalist system, are bound by a common struggle regardless of their job status, location, and nationality.
📣 #IMASolCon | Tian Chua from Sekretariat Solidariti Palestin points to the persistence of apartheid in the daily lives of migrants who are economically and politically displaced and disenfranchised by imperialist aggressors.
📣 #IMASolCon | Cody Urban from the International League of Peoples’ Struggle served as the keynote speaker for the solidarity conference last October 26-27, 2024.
Migrants, refugees and peoples of the world, let’s mobilise in our millions for Palestine: End the genocide! End the occupation!
We in the International Migrants Alliance (IMA) express our strongest solidarity with the Palestinian people on this day October 7—the one year anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood resistance movement, and the consequent genocidal attack on Gaza by Zionist Israel supported by the US and its Imperialist allies.
[STATEMENT] Resist Anti-migrant Discrimination in Europe
European countries are becoming more and more dangerous for migrants and refugees every year. The last two years have seen the biggest surge in anti-migrant racism and discrimination; coming from powerful politicians, to large masses of civilians.
Communique of the IMA International Coordinating Body Meeting
We in the Executive Committee are very pleased to share with you the unities and plans deliberated and agreed upon by the members of the International Coordinating Body (ICB) when we gathered in a hybrid meeting in Penang, Malaysia, on June 18 and 20, 2024.