Al Jazeera news :
Reformists and moderate conservatives were leading in parliamentary elections according to early results on Saturday, an indication that President Hassan Rouhani may face a more friendly house to pursue his domestic agenda.
Early returns from Friday’s polls show that none of the three competing political factions will win a majority in the
public debate on refugees. More than one million refugees and migrants arrived in the European Union during 2015, and the pace of arrivals dramatically increased in the first two months of this year.
As tension surrounding refugees and migrants rises at Europe’s borders and in its cities, the Hamburg conference – branded “The Struggles of Refugees – How to Go On?” – is the first major attempt by refugees in Europe to self-organise across borders and create solidarity for their common goals.
“We should give each other power,” Anas Aboura, an asylum seeker from Syria, told Al Jazeera at the conference. “As refugees we must be united together in order to reach the aims we want to reach, to get equality, to get the right to stay, to get educated, to work, to have a normal life as we had before the wars in our countries started.”
Hamed Elfangeri, an asylum seeker from Sudan who lives in Hannover, said it was a good chance for refugees to speak about their struggles.
“We find that the problems for refugees in Germany, in Calais, in Italy are many times the same problems,” he said. The conference was organised by a collaboration of several refugee groups, including Refugee Movement Berlin, Refugee Protest Camp Hannover, and Lampedusa in Hamburg.
Reformists and moderate conservatives were leading in parliamentary elections according to early results on Saturday, an indication that President Hassan Rouhani may face a more friendly house to pursue his domestic agenda.
Early returns from Friday’s polls show that none of the three competing political factions will win a majority in the
public debate on refugees. More than one million refugees and migrants arrived in the European Union during 2015, and the pace of arrivals dramatically increased in the first two months of this year.
As tension surrounding refugees and migrants rises at Europe’s borders and in its cities, the Hamburg conference – branded “The Struggles of Refugees – How to Go On?” – is the first major attempt by refugees in Europe to self-organise across borders and create solidarity for their common goals.
“We should give each other power,” Anas Aboura, an asylum seeker from Syria, told Al Jazeera at the conference. “As refugees we must be united together in order to reach the aims we want to reach, to get equality, to get the right to stay, to get educated, to work, to have a normal life as we had before the wars in our countries started.”
Hamed Elfangeri, an asylum seeker from Sudan who lives in Hannover, said it was a good chance for refugees to speak about their struggles.
“We find that the problems for refugees in Germany, in Calais, in Italy are many times the same problems,” he said. The conference was organised by a collaboration of several refugee groups, including Refugee Movement Berlin, Refugee Protest Camp Hannover, and Lampedusa in Hamburg.
