Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 13:07:32 +0200 To: united@antenna.nl From: united@antenna.nl (UNITED) Subject: REFUGEES/CALENDAR --========================_14159810==_ Dear friends, Herewith we send you our latest mailing by e-mail, including an invitation to the conference on refugees 'Speak out for refugees' rights!', as well as the latest Calendar of Internationalism (attached). Please let us know it anything goes wrong with the transmission. Keep sending us information on your activities, about deaths of refugees trying to enter fortress Europe and about detention centers for refugees and illegal immigrants around Europe! With best wishes, Saskia Daru **************************************************************************** UNITED for Intercultural Action European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees with the support of the Green Group and the Socialist Group in the European Parliament ************************************************************************ Conference - Invitation: ************************************************************************ SPEAK OUT FOR REFUGEES' RIGHTS ! offensive for a "harmonisation of European asylum laws" on the basis of safe refuge under humanitarian conditions European Parliament Bruxelles June 13-14 1996 ************************************************************************ ----- Attacks on refugees in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, a series of suicides in German detention centres, horrible conditions in the Hungarian detention camp of Gy=F6r, massive cutting down of social benefits in Britain= =8A And we actually see the European governments and Ministers of Internal Affairs concentrating their efforts on the "harmonisation of asylum laws", which will be of course on the lowest possible level. To oppose these intentions we think it's high time to combine all forces that stand for refugees' rights and to express clearly the need for safe refuge under humanitarian conditions.----- ************************************************************************* PROGRAM THURSDAY 13/6 14.30-18.00 chair: Claudia Roth (MEP Greens) Saskia Daru (UNITED) Welcome Introduction: The UNITED refugee campaign J=FCrgen Sch=E4fer (UNITED - Amsterdam) Construction of a "Fortress Europe" Glyn Ford / Wilmya Zimmermann (MEPs PSE - Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs) (Schengen, TREVI, Dublin, Europol, safe third countries, visa policy...) Economic justice and migration Sawkat Choudhury (Amnesty International Slovakia) (reasons for seeking refuge...) Discussion Break Effects of "Fortress Europe" for refugees =46rances Webber (Institute of Race Relations - London) (militarisation, deaths, criminalisation, detention, ex-territorial zones, chain expulsions...) Hot spots of human tragedies Helmut Dietrich (Forschungsstelle Flucht und Migration FFM - Berlin) (Ceuta/Spain, Gy=F6r/Hungary, Szczecin/Poland...) New "Apartheid" in Europe David Forbes (Kairos Europe Migration Programme) (cutting of social benefits, living conditions, medical care, citizens' righ= ts=8A) Discussion _______________________________________________________________ =46RIDAY 14/6 9.30-13.00 chair: Wilmya Zimmermann (MEP PSE) J=FCrgen Sch=E4fer (UNITED) Harmonisation of refugee/asylum policy of the governments Claudia Roth (MEP - President Green Group - Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs) (IGC /Maastricht, "definition" of refugee, minimum guarantees of asylum procedures, cutting social benefits, citizens' rights...) Amnesty for rejected asylum seekers and "illegal" immigrants - The actual regularisation in Portugal B=E1rbara Mesquita (Portuguese Refugee Council - Lisbon) Protection of asylum seekers and the question of "illegal" immigration Philip Rudge (ECRE - Secretary General European Council on Refugees and Exiles - London) Discussion Break The lobbying approach: 10 minimum demands for fair and satisfactory asylum procedures in Europe Sandrine Grenier (Amnesty International - EU Association - Brussels) The grass-roots approach: Direct support for (illegal) refugees Rick van Amersfoort (Autonoom Centrum - Amsterdam) The campaigning approach: 21 demands for European harmonisation of asylum la= ws =46rances Webber (Basso-Tribunal - Berlin / IRR London) Discussion Possibilities for cooperation of all forces that stand for refugees' rights Closure _______________________________________________________________ TECHNICAL INFORMATION Program: There will be 4x3 experts inputs of 15 minutes each. Each block followed by 45 minutes of discussion. Place: Conference place is the European Parliament in Brussels, room MAE 2, 97-113 rue Belliard. Languages: Simultaneous interpretation is foreseen in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Participation fee: Thanks to the support of the Green and the Socialist Group in the EP we don't have to charge a participation fee. But accomodation and travel costs can unfortunately not be reimbursed. If you have good contact to a MEP from your country he might support your travel costs from his special budget. Nominations: To this open Conference we invite all MEPs and their assistants who want to support refugees, all refugee NGOs from inside and outside the UNITED network, anti-racist and human rights groups, journalists of all media=8A Organisations may nominate several delegates. A limited number of interested individuals might also be welcomed. YOU HAVE TO NOMINATE TO UNITED, OTHERWISE YOU CANNOT GET ACCESS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Please send a short letter to UNITED with the name(s) of your delegate(s) and the complete address of your organisation. More detailed information will be send after your nomination, such as proposals for cheap hostels / accomodation. UNITED for Intercultural Action is with 380 organisations from 41 European countries the biggest European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees= .. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The UNITED Refugees Campaign The situation for refugees in Europe is rapidly becoming worse More and more people look desperately for safe refuge in Europe. But they see their well-founded reasons to flee ignored by the rich states of the "Fortress Europe". The official figure of people seeking asylum is permanently decreasing in Western Europe, whilst the problem is partly transferred to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. About 5 million refugees and migrants of all kinds in the territory of the former Soviet Union show the enormous dimension of this concern The answer of the EU-governments is quite simple: stop all legal possibilities to enter our countries. And those who have against all odds succeeded to arrive, are declared to be "illegal" and Europe changes its laws etc. so that 95 % can be expelled. We at UNITED are not sure whether a harmonisation of asylum laws at the European level is of any advantage for refugees, even if we have the chance of influencing the process. Maybe gaps in national legislation are sometimes the only chance for protection. But we are totally sure that we have to become more active and support the victims of persecution of all kinds. Activities of the Campaign The UNITED Refugees Campaign was launched a year ago during the UNITED Conference in Luxembourg (2/95), in response to growing concern for the high number of refugees who died trying to enter Fortress Europe. We have documented 276 refugee deaths since January 1993. =46rom the start the campaign had 2 main elements - to prevent more deaths and to lobby for the demands of the Basso-Tribunal, for humane asylum policy, which was held in Berlin, December 1994, to investigate refugee policies and Fortress Europe. Many refugee and human rights organisations, as well as members of European Parliament and national parliamentarians, joined the Campaign and are actively taking part. Seeing as June 16 was already the Refugee Day in half of the Western European countries, while in the others it was held in varying months, we concentrated our efforts on June 16 as "International Refugee Day". With the slogan "Fortress Europe: No more deaths! Open Borders - Open Minds!" on 16/6/95 we organised a European-wide bombardement with protest faxes of the Interior Ministries of Germany, Great-Britain, France, Spain and Italy, as being the countries with the most restrictive policy towards refugees. Dozens of other activities were organised all over Europe on this day to show solidarity with refugees. In 1995, UNITED delegates were invited to various meetings at the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, where we had the chance to present the elements of the Campaign. On 9/11/95 was the commemoration of "Kristallnacht", where antifascist, Jewish and refugee support organisations in 28 countries held hundreds of activities on the theme of refuge in Europe 1938-1995. This unique cooperation made a historic parallel between 1938 when Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany were refused entry into safe countries and today, when =46ortress Europe prevents refugees from entering safe European countries. Members of the UNITED network having witnessed the horrible conditions in the detention centres of Ceuta (Spain/Morroco) and Gy=F6r (Hungary), decided at the UNITED Conference in Budapest (10/95) to start a research on detention centres in Europe, which is planned to be followed by special campaign activities. In support of this Campaign 60.000 posters, 30.000 stickers and 1.500 brochures of the Basso-Tribunal have been distributed. They can still be ordered from UNITED. Now UNITED is mobilising for June 16, 1996 "International Refugee Day", around which a lot of local and national activities shall be organised. And on an international level we are holding a Conference on June 13-14 at the European Parliament. We ask you to join us and "Speak out for refugees' rights!" We want to organise an offensive for a "harmonisation of European asylum laws" on the basis of safe refuge under humanitarian conditions. Refugee deaths through Fortress Europe In this info-pack you will find documentation on 276 refugee deaths since 1993, as well as press clippings on some tragic and shocking shocking fates. All the deaths listed can be put down to Fortress Europe. They are the result of border militarisation and restrictions in asylum laws, which make the legal entry impossible. Refugees are forced to find always more dangerous ways. Dependent on unscrupulous traffickers and searched by uniformed man-hunters, they take small boats from Albania to Italy, unable to swim they cross rivers between Poland and Germany, walk on steep footpaths in the Alpes during night, travel in sealed containers and as stowaways. If they are fortunate enough to arrive, their life is still not safe. Primitive conditions of accomodation make them targets of racist arson attacks, inhuman detention and deportation policy often ends in desperate suicides=8A Of course the documented 276 deaths is only the tip of the iceberg. It is difficult to document all deaths, which we estimate up to 1-2.000, because the EU Commission does not feel responsible and therefore does not collect information. They say, given where deaths have occured it is the responsibility of the national governments to investigate. As everybody can imagine national governments show the same desinterest. We ask you to keep sending us press cuttings and other information about the deaths - we continue compiling the list. The problem is not only a European one. The University of Houston (USA) has researched that each year 300 people drown when they try to cross the Rio Grande between Mexico and Texas. When they try to flee from their desperate situation they have to look for dangerous crossings at the 1.000 km part of the river, which is not heavily guarded. 3.200 people have drowned in the last 10 years. Most of them are never identified and buried within 24 hours in unmarked pauper's graves. Many of their relatives are still waiting=8A Research on detention in Europe The existence of Fortress Europe produces not only endless numbers of deaths and tragic consequences in the lives of those desperately seeking safety, but also restrictive measures against the "lucky" who succeed in arriving. The aim of the official policy is to protect Europe from refugees. So why not treat refugees as criminals and by putting them into detention they hope to deter all the others who intend to flee to Europe? The European Ministers of Interior are very creative in finding lots of reasons to keep refugees in detention centres. And they learn from each other: During the last years all the large international airports got their "ex-territorial zones" - prisons have been discovered as ideal places to accomodate refugees etc. We have to ask, who is the criminal? Those who flee from threatening persecution with the only wish to live in safety or those who throw these desperate people into prisons? The European estimate shows several tens of thousand refugees detained, among them up to 4.000 in Germany and 1.000 in Britain. We think it is high time to do research on this development and we ask you to help us to enlarge our list of 79 detention centres in Europe by filling in the enclosed questionnaire. International conventions and national legislation demand from most of the countries not to use detention as punitive or disciplinary measures, to prohibit the detention of minors, to give access to UNHCR officials etc. But this is not enough! Detention is in no way acceptable. We have to fight for the complete closing down of all detention centres! Harmonisation of European asylum laws Ministers who construct the Fortress Europe cannot only be stopped by extra-parliamentarian movements who protest against flagrant violations of human rights. There must be intensive lobbying of politicians, parties and those civil servants in the ministries who show an open attitude to the needs of refugees. We have to convince them that the harmonisation process is only acceptable, when it is based on the demands of safe refuge under humanitarian conditions, as it is laid down in the 21 demands of the Basso-Tribunal. Instead of defending what is left of the rights of asylum seekers, we have to go in an offensive and speak out for what is really needed. On June 13-14 in Bruxelles we want to discuss with all organisations and members of European Parliament how we can successfully join in this fight. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Detention in Europe 1996 "The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status." Art. 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Introduction "Fortress Europe" has become a synonymous with EU asylum and migration policy, deportation and detention, criminalization, forced measures and control. Even if the European state lacks political structure and has no real democratic control, Europe is seen to migrants and refugees as a unified state with strongly defended borders. Due to recent changes in the laws and an enlarged practice of detention, the detaining of asylum seekers has become an issue of public concern in several European countries (UK, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Denmark). In other countries public attention has been appeased by improvements in legislation and practice (Luxembourg, Netherlands and Norway), whereas particularly in those countries where expulsions are not usually accompanied by forceful deportation orders (Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal), there is little public awareness of the problem. Hunger strikes of detained asylum seekers, demonstrations and protests against the conditions of detention have been reported frequently especially in Switzerland and Germany. The list of deaths compiled by UNITED for Intercultural Action indicates an increasing number of deaths and suicides in recent years. These dramatic and unusual stories make their way into the press. However, they are not just random, unconnected incidents but examples of a deficient practice. Detention itself is becoming standard practice in some countries. It is a direct consequence of the state policy to restrict migrants entering Western Europe and their scant regard for asylum seekers' need for international protection. Procedures for 'manifestly unfounded' solicitations, the Dublin Convention (country of first asylum in the EU), 'safe third country' removals and denial of social welfare benefits, together have implications for the detention practice. Increased detention figures have recently been reported by several UNHCR Branch Officers in Western Europe, notably from Austria, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. Only in Norway has the use of detention diminished. Several countries have recently amended, or are in the process of amending their legislation, to increase their power to detain asylum seekers or authorise longer detention periods: - Due to the revision of the German Alien Act in 1990, which enlarges the potential detainment period from three months up to 18 months, the number of detainees has increased by 1000% between 1992 and 1994. The UK Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 gives the immigration officers broad powers to detain without a right to appeal to the courts. The UK Asylum Law in process to be renewed in 1996 will become more restrictive also in regard to the 'safe third country' rule. - In Switzerland, the Federal Law on Coercive Measures in Aliens Law, which came into force in February 1995 authorises imprisonment for up to 12 months for persons above the age of 15 when found without valid residence permits, regardless of whether or not they have committed a crime. Similar legal provisions are currently under debate in Belgium. - In 1994 France introduced an amendment to its legislation, creating international waiting zones, especially in airports, which in practical terms means detention for up to 20 days. Detainees may be transferred from one zone to another. - The amendment of the Danish Alien Act, passed in Parliament in 1994, was declared unconstitutional by the courts in January 1995 and was subsequently suspended. It provided powers of detention in the 'manifestly unfounded' procedure. - The Netherlands and Luxembourg revised their aliens legislation in 1994. The maximum length of detention is four weeks in the Netherlands and 6 months in Luxembourg. - Sweden has recently raised the age limit of detention of minors from 16 to 18 years. The establishment of new detention centres and/or the enlargement of existing ones is another indication of the intention of the European governments to continue their policy of detaining asylum seekers. Such plans can be found in a number of countries like Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Currently four types of detention exist in practice: Detention prior to admission This applies to asylum seekers who are detained while awaiting a decision on their admissibility to the determination procedures and hence to the territory of the country concerned. The introduction of accelerated procedures for 'manifestly unfounded' and 'safe third country' cases has made this type of detention an increasingly common practice. This form of detention is predominantly used by border countries such as Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom. The increasing use made of these procedures at European borders is a direct product of measures agreed on by EU Member States, such as visa restrictions and carrier sanctions and restricting legal access to the respective national territories. Denmark, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Italy practice a supposedly short-term detention. In practice pre-admission detention can last for weeks or even months. Detention in airports Airport detention with unlimited length has become common practice in some countries throughout Europe. The methods of 'detention prior to admission' and 'detention prior to deportation in airports' have become increasingly indistinguishable. The Austrian Constitutional Court as well as the French and Belgian authorities have maintained that detention in airports is not really 'detention' because asylum seekers are supposedly free to leave the country whenever they wish! Detention during the determination procedure During determination procedures, asylum seekers in western Europe generally may be detained only when there is serious reason to believe that they will not cooperate with the procedure or resist deportation if rejected. This type of detention is particularly common in the United Kingdom, where all asylum seekers detained on pre-admission grounds stay in detention, even after their application has been declared admissible. Appeals in courts are not possible. Danger of detention is greatest for those asylum seekers likely to be rejected and deported. The grounds for detention are not very clearly defined in any European state. The only power to detain an asylum seeker given leave to enter Germany is through the criminal justice system; however, this apparently liberal position should be seen in the context of detention prior to deportation which is used on a massive scale. Detention prior to deportation The trend in several Western European countries (in particular Austria, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland) can be summarised as one of extending duration of detention prior to deportation, and the use of broad and increasingly vague criteria for judging that persons subject to deportation orders may attempt to flee. A serious problem in pre-deportation detention is that hardly any difference is being made between rejected asylum seekers and other migrants and foreigners convicted of crimes. In public perception and political debate detention itself turns out to be a means of criminalization. Even though detention in Germany is not legally permitted if expulsion cannot be carried out within three months, Kurds have been nonetheless detained for up to eleven months. Human rights Human rights organisations have good reason to believe that the great majority of detained asylum seekers in Western Europe today are being deprived of their liberty on the basis of arbitrary decisions and unclear legal procedures and practices. In the absence of fair asylum procedures in Western Europe many genuine refugees will inevitably be rejected and thus possibly detained. The human suffering through detention cannot be overstated: the detained asylum seeker is prey to a sense of insecurity, of being an object in an uncertain process. The feeling of powerlessness, passivity. humiliation, fear of the unknown and the possibility of being returned to the country where he/she may be at risk of persecution result in depression, aggressiveness, even self-mutilation and suicide. --- J=FCrg L=FCdi (Arbeitsstelle f=FCr Asylfragen - Switzerland) --- --- March 1996 --- --========================_14159810==_ UNITED for Intercultural Action __________________________________________________ --- CALENDAR OF INTERNATIONALISM 4/96 --- __________________________________________________ until 26.04.96 "52th Session - Commission on Human Rights" contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, J. Moller, CH-1211 Geneve 10, phone +41-22-9173378 until 15.06.96 "Without Invitation...a Journey Not Like the Others" Interactive Exhibition and role game in Bruxelles (B) organised by Centre d'Initiation pour Refugies et Etrangers This project will allow its visitors to 'live' the journey of an asylum seek= er. contact: CIRE, 205 chaussee de Wavre , B-1040 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6441717, fax +32-2-6468591 30.03.96-06.04.96 "Intercultural Training for European Young Leaders" - in Faro (P) organised by Intercambio Europeu de Jovens Training course how to work with people from various cultures for young lead= ers Themes: intercultural learning, games and their methods, planning and organising activities... contact: Intercambio Europeu de Jovens, Rua Comdte Augusto Cardoso 29, P-1500 Lisboa,phone/fax +351-1-7601451 31.03.96-09.04.96 "The Long Echo of National Socialism - Long Ago but not Over" German - English Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 April 1996 "Colloquium on Schengen" - in Bruxelles (B) organised by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Theme: application of the provisions of the Schengen Agreement relating to asylum and refugees in the Benelux Countries in the light of international protection principles... contact: UNHCR, Rue van Eyck 11b, B-1050 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6490153, fax +32-2-6419005 April 1996 "Criminalisation of the Anti-Fascist Resistance" Anti-Fascist Week in Goettingen (D) organised by Autonome Antifa (M) events, actions, concerts and a demonstration... contact: Autonome Antifa (M), c/o Buchladen Rote Strasse 10, D-37073 Goettingen, phone +49-551-394569, fax +49-551-394564, e.mail aam@paxo.nadir.org April 1996 "International Cooperation" International Conference in Bialystok (PL) organised by Brotherhood of Orthodox Youth participants from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus contact: European Youth Campaign Against Racism=8A - Poland, ul. Ok=F3lnik 11/1, PL-00368, Warszawa, phone +48-22-279465, fax +48-22-2789= 38 April 1996 "Impact of Tolerance on the Construction of Europe Through the Imagination" International Seminar in Massy (F) organised by Youth for the World - Jeunes pour le Monde Themes: define the concept of tolerance, Europe of the future... contact: Youth for the World, El. Axiomaticon Street 29, GR-16233 Athinai, phone +30-1-7255646, fax +30-1-7255646 April 1996 "Young YWCA Struggling Against Racism" International Seminar for Women in Strasbourg (F) organised by European Young Women's Christian Association Themes: prejudices, woman and racism, how to handle concrete situations, info on organisations against racism at European level... contact: YWCA, 94, avenue Brugmann, B-1060 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-3449861, fax +32-2-3465946 April/May 1996"Religion and Minority in Europe" International Seminar in Central/Eastern Europe organised by World Student Christian Federation - Europe Office Themes: religious minorities, human rights in Europe... contact: WSCF, Prins Hendriklaan 37, NL-1075 BA Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6754921, fax +31-20-6755736 04.04.96-07.04.96 "Right-Wing Extremism and Violence" Seminar for young people in Ainhofen near Dachau (D) Contact: Foerderverein Dachau, Zur Alten Schiessstatt 1, D-85221 Dachhau, phone +49-8131-83303 07.04.96-12.04.96 "Minority Rights and the Right to Self-Determination" International Seminar in Antwerpen (B) organised by Pax Christi Youth Forum - International Themes: European youth living in multi-ethnic states, structural solutions, rights of minorities... contact: PCYF, 21, rue du Vieux Marche aux Grains, B-1000 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5025550, fax +32-2-5024626 09.04.96-14.04.96 "Seek Traces - Secure Traces" International Youth Work Camp in former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen (D) organised by DGB Landesbezirk Niedersachsen Themes: reconstruction work, history and documentation, photo and video documentation, meetings with eye-witnesses, discussions.... contact: DGB Landesbezirk Niedersachsen, Charly Braun, Dreyerstra=DFe 6, D-30169 Hannover, phone +49-511-456252, fax +49-511-126015713.04.96-28.04.96"Non-Violence in the Context of War or Armed Conflict" International Training in Wustrow (D) organised by Kurve Wustrow and International Fellowship of Reconciliation Themes: observing and reporting human rights violations, principles of non-violence and non-violent direct action, political analysis and non-violent strategy development, cultural sensitivity... contact: Kurve Wustrow, Kirchstrasse 14, D-29462 Wustrow, phone +49-5843-507, fax +49-5843-1405 15.04.96-21.04.96 "Self-Confident and in Solidarity" Women Seminar in Tinje / Tainach (A) Themes: ethnic minorities... Contact: Kath. Sozialakademie, Schottenring 35/DG, A-1010 Wien, phone +43-1-3105159, fax +43-1-3106828 16.04.96-19.04.96 "Constitutional, Legal and Administrative Aspects of the Freedom of Religion= " International Conference in Warsaw (PL) organised by OSCE - Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights contact: ODIHR, Krucza 36 / Wsp=F3lna 6, PL-00522 Warszawa, phone +48-2-6257040, fax +48-2-6254357, e.mail odihrosc@atos.warman.com.pl 17.04.96 "The War in Yugoslavia: Humanitarian, Political and Economic Consequences" Conference in Madrid (E) contact: Dialogo Europeo, Fuencarral 74-2 J, E-28004 Madrid, phone +34-1-5218063, fax +34-1-23211100 18.04.96-20.04.96 "Security Policy of the European Union: Migration Policy, Schengen..." International Conference in Austria contact: Renner-Instituut, phone +43-1-8046501/28 18.04.96-20.04.96 "New Migration in Europe: Social Constructions and Social Realities" 2nd International ERCOMER Conference in Utrecht (NL) organised by European Research/Documentation Centre on Migration & Ethnic Relations Themes: migrant networks and migration systems, women in migration, asylum seekers and refugees, undocumented migrants, migration and new identities... contact: ERCOMER, Postbus 80140, NL-3508 TC Utrecht, phone +31-30-539220, fax +31-30-539280, e-mail ERCOMER@FSW.RUU.NL 19.04.96-21.04.96 "The End of Wisdom - From Anti-Racism to Intercultural Understanding" Educational Seminar near Berlin (D) contact: Internationale Begegnungsstaette Schloss Glienicke, phone +49-30-80010, fax +49-30--8050156 19.04.96-21.04.96 "Hidden People - 'Illegal' Refugees" Conference in Helmstedt (D) for workers from refugee and migrant support groups contact: Niedersaechsische Landeszentrale fuer politische Bildung, Reinhard Witt, Hohenzollernstrasse 46, D-30163 Hannover, phone +49-511-3901282, fax +49-511-3901290 19.04.96-21.04.96 "One Race - Human Race" Seminar in Hilders/Rhoen (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. in cooperation with IG Metall Themes: laws against foreigners, practical strategies against racism, multiculturalism, youth work, anti-discrimination work... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-5961444 19.04.96-21.04.96 "Ethnic Minorities as Victims of Crimes" Conference in Loccum (D) contact: Ev. Akademie Loccum, phone +49-5766-81/025.04.96 "Free Speech / Free Media - Human Rights in Danger?" International Hearing in the European Parliament in Bruxelles (B) organised by Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs speakers: Wole Soyinka, Rupert Neudeck, Jacques Derrida... contact: Europabuero Koeln, fax +49-221-728419 26.04.96-27.04.96 "Dance on the Think Floor - Moving Visions on Women in an Inter-Ethnical Society" International Conference in Amsterdam (NL) organised by Netwerk voor Inter-Ethnische Vrouwen Studies Themes: international connections, education and training... contact: NIEUWS, Plantage Muidergracht 12, NL-1018 TV Amsterdam, phone +31-20-5255086, fax +31-20-5255040 May 1996 "Removing Racist Graffiti-Campaign" - in Helsinki and Lohja (SF) contact: Finnish Antifa Coalition, Kalevankatu 1, SF-08100 Lohia, e.mail hraita@sockom.helsinki.fi May 1996 "Migrant Policies and Right of Asylum" International Seminar in Utrecht (NL) organised by European Young Christian Democrats Themes: changed European borders, right of asylum, human right dimension, Maastricht Treaty... contact: EYCD, 16, rue de la Victoire , B-1060 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5374147, fax +32-2-5345028 May or June 1996 "CIS Conference" organised by UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights and the International Organisation for Migration Themes: the range and complex nature of the mass movements taking place, (5 million people have migrated throughout the former Soviet republics), problems of involuntary population displacement in the former Soviet-Union, devise a comprehensive strategy at national, regional and international levels, analyse population movements... contact: UNHCR, Rue van Eyck 11b, B-1050 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6490153, fax +32-2-6419005 03.05.96 "Labour Market and Migration" Action Day in Wien (A) Contact: SOS-Mitmensch, Muenzwardeingasse 2/2, A-1060 Wien, phone +43-5860132, fax +43-1-5860131 03.05.96-05.05.96 "Women in the Religions - Women Resist the Religions" Women Forum of the Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung in Schloss Friedenwald (D) Themes: dialogue of women from East and West Germany, migrant women and black women about the influences of Christianity and Islam on women... contact: Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung, Brueckenstrasse 5-11, D-50667 Koeln, phone +49-221-207110, fax +49-221-2071151 05.05.96 "National Celebration of the Liberation" - in Amsterdam and Maastricht (NL) organised by Nationaal Comite 4 en 5 mei Themes: discussions 'ideals around freedom', party, cultural program... contact: Nationaal Comite 4 en 5 mei, Rapenburgstraat 109, NL-1011 VL Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6209688, fax +31-20-6205620 05.05.96 "Provincial Celebration of the Liberation" - in many cities in the Netherlan= ds organised by Nationaal Comite 4 en 5 mei Themes: discussions 'peace asks for maintenance', world music, party, cultural program... contact: Nationaal Comite 4 en 5 mei, Rapenburgstraat 109, NL-1011 VL Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6209688, fax +31-20-6205620f 08.05.96-10.05.96 "The Multicultural Neighbourhood - Our Multi-Ethnic Society of Today and Tomorrow" International Conference in Copenhagen (DK) organised by the Board for Ethnic Equality, Ministry of the Interior Themes: British minority policies, aliens in Denmark - between under representation and over visualisation, social and cultural life in the 'ghettos', young ethnic minorities in an urban and multicultural society, dynamics behind prejudice and racism... contact: DSB Conference Services, DSB Reventlowsgade 10, DK-1651 Copenhagen = V, phone +45-3314-8099, fax +45-3122-0377 10.05.96-12.05.96 "The (Im)Possibility of Seeking Asylum in the European Union" Seminar in Muenster (D) organised by Akademie Franz Hitze Haus =46or teachers and students interested in development policy contact: Akademie Franz Hitze Haus, Kardinal-von-Galen-Ring 50, D-48149 Muen= ster 10.05.-12.05.96 !!!!!!! "Anti-Discrimination Work" !!!!!!! --- UNITED - Training session in Budapest (H) --- for anti-nationalist and human rights activists in Hungary organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action and Martin Luther King Organisa= tion Themes: research and archives, organising actions, legislation, how to prioritise casework... contact: MLKO, Zsombolyai =FA. 3, H-1113 Budapest, phone +36-1-1665770, fax +36-1-1665770 12.05.96-19.05.96 "Women, Men and Society: About Inequalities and Differences..." Intercultural Seminar in Amsterdam (NL) organised by International Young Nature Friends in cooperation with minority organisations Themes: different roles in the economics, different laws, different structures of encouragement and constrain... contact: IYNF, Prinses Elisabethlaan 167, B-1030 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-2160933, fax +32-2-2160841, e-mail IYNF@unicall.be 13.05.96-17.05.96 "About the Third and One World - Learning From Foreigners" Seminar in Vlotho (D) organised by Jugendhof Vlotho, Oeynhausenerstr. 1, D-32602 Vlotho 15.05.96-19.05.96 "International Ethnographic Film Festival" - in Goettingen (D) organised by Institute fuer den Wissenschaftlichen Film more than 30 new ethnographic films will be presented and a first prize for the best student film will be awarded contact: IWF, c/o GIEFF, Nonnenstieg 72, D-37075 Goettingen, phone +49-551-5024160, fax +49-551-5024400, e-mail 16.05.96-19.05.96 "International Youth Forum Interweek" International Conference in Novosibirsk (RUS) organised by Siberian Youth Initiative Themes: development, federalism, UN reforms, youth work... contact: Int. Youth Forum Interweek, Pirogova st. #2, RUS-Novosibirsk 630090= , phone +7-3832-353941, fax +7-3832-352653, e-mail root@youth.nsu.nsk.su 17.05.96-24.05.96 "European Cultural Minorities" International Seminar in Utsjoki (SF) organised by Federation des Jeunes Ecologistes Europeens Themes: European minority cultures, Saami, Romany, Basque and Russian tribes= .... contact: FJEE, 12, rue Charles VI, B-1030 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-2175290 18.05.96-19.05.96 "The Rights of Refugees Under International Law" International Course in Oxford (GB) organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: refugee rights in international and domestic legislation, human rights, minority rights, ethnic relations... contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 19.05.96 and 24.05.96 "Living and Living Together in Multi-Ethnical and Multi-Religious Societies" Symposium in Den Haag (NL) organised by Stichting UDAY contact: UDAY, Postbus 52101, NL-2505 CC Den Haag, phone +31-70-3914380 20.05.96 and 20.06.96 "Asylum in Germany - Education Seminar for Full Time and Voluntary Workers from Asylum Counselling Agencies" - Seminar in Vlotho (D) organised by Jugendhof Vlotho, Oeynhausenerstr. 1, D-32602 Vlotho20.05.96-21.06.96"Anti-Racism Boat" Educational Boat Tour along 25 Dutch cities organised by Magenta and School Without Racism Themes: exhibition about racism and the struggle against it through the ages, information from anti-racism organisations, art project... contact: Magenta, phone +31-20-6236756, fax +31-20-6235929, e.mail mag2@euronet.nl School Zonder Racisme, Willemstraat 59, NL-5611 HC Eindhoven, phone +31-40-2359999, fax +31-40-2445712, e.mail migrant1@pi.net 24.05.96-27.05.96 "International Culture Workshop" Seminar in Hamburg (D) organised by Haus am Schueberg, Wulfsdorfer Weg 33, D-22949 Ammersbek/Hoisbuettel, phone +49-40-6050028 25.05.96 "Drawing Borders - Grenzziehungen" Conference in Paderborn (D) Themes: detention centres, deportation, persecution of Roma, racism... contact: Projektbereich Eine Welt, c/o Asta der Uni / GH, Wartburgerstr. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, phone +49-5251-730337 26.05.96 "Demonstration against the Detention Centre in Bueren" Demonstration in Bueren (D) contact: Projektbereich Eine Welt, c/o Asta der Uni / GH, Wartburgerstr. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, phone +49-5251-730337 "Europe Moves to the Right - Social Psychological Reasons for Radical Right-Wing Attitudes" =46rench-German Seminar and Training in Chantilly (F) organised by Fraenkische Bildungswerk fuer Friedensarbeit 27.05.96-30.05.96 "Social Therapeutically Training" Themes: fear, aggression, hate, communication with racists, how to work with intercultural groups... 30.05.96-02.06.96 "Seminar - Europe Moves to the Right" Themes: political situation in Europe, experiences from other countries, social-psychological aspects, perspectives of common activities... contact: Fraenkische Bildungswerk fuer Friedensarbeit, Hessestrasse 4, D-90443 Nuernberg, phone +49-911-288500 28.05.96-02.06.96 "Meeting the Intercultural Challenge" International Congress in Muenchen (D) organised by Society for Intercultural Education, Training & Research Themes: research, education, training, community interaction... contact: SIETAR, c/o Uni Jyvaeskylae/Dep.Comm. POB 35, SF-40351 Jyvaeskylae, phone +358-41-601531, fax +358-41-601541, e-mail sietareu@jyu.fi 29.05.96-30.05.96 "Local Integration of Immigrants - Call for Case Studies" International Workshop in Strasbourg (F) for different types of actors involved in the local policy of integration organised by Agence pour le Developpement des Relations Interculturelles Themes: economic integration, social housing and local integration, economic development in the countries of origin, education and intercultural actions, religious practices local environment... contact: ADRI, 4 rue Rene Villerme, F-75011 Paris, phone +33-1-43484919, fax +33-1-43482517 2nd half 1996"Domination and Liberation in the New World Society: Racism - Migration - Self-Organisation" Conference in Germany organised by Bundeskongress Entwicklungspolitischer Aktionsgruppen Themes: ethnic conflicts, migration as social movement, self-organisation as alternative to integration... contact: BUKO, Nernstweg 32-34, D-22765 Hamburg, phone +49-40-393156, +49-40-3907520 Summer 1997"Tolerance and Peace" International Summer Camp in Poland 1000 participants from all European Countries organised by Polish National Committee for the European Youth Campaign against Racism, Anti-Semitism, Xenophobia and Intolerance contact: Campaign against RAXI, c/o Sofokles - PO Box 2242, PL-54414 Wroclaw 47, phone +48-71-723058, fax +48-71-723058 June 1996"Racism and Solidarity" International Seminar in Krakow (PL) organised by European Good Templar Youth Federation Themes: prejudices, racism, xenophobia, intolerance, multicultural identities, minorities in Europe, nationalism, ethnicity, intercultural learning... contact: EGTYF, Markveien 35C, N-0554 Oslo, phone +47-22385807, fax +47-2238= 0371 02.06.96 "Openings Manifestation Festival Mundial - One World...One Future" International Music Festival in Tilburg (NL) organised by Centrum voor Internationale Samenwerking international music, composing competition 'Brabant as a Multicultural Province'... contact: COS/VWW, Stationsstraat 39, NL-5038 EC Tilburg, phone +31-13-5431335, fax +31-13-5437096 04.06.96-05.06.96 "Refugees: the Future in Europe After 1996?" International Conference in Lisbon (P) organised by Conselho Portugu=EAs para os Refugiados Themes: European asylum policy within the framework of the EU conference on the reform of the Maastricht Treaty, reception conditions to asylum seekers and refugees at the national and European level... contact: CPR, Rua Viriato 27-2=B0 A, P-1050 Lisboa, phone +351-1-3159847, fax +351-1-3537692 05.06.96-14.06.96 "Everyday Racism" German - Finnish Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 08.06.96-09.06.96 "Graensloesa Festival" Anti-Racist Festival in Stockholm (S) with music, exhibitions, discussions, workshops, children's activities, happenings, films... organised by Hasans vaenner - mot vald och rasism contact: Hasans vaenner, Box 34, S-12921 Haegersten, phone +46-8-979899, fax +46-8-979899 09.06.96-16.06.96 "Europe in the 1990s: Creating a Common European Identity?" International Seminar in Thessaloniki (GR) organised by Young European Federalists Themes: a united Europe, identity shaping aspects, language, culture, religion, political thoughts... contact: JEF, 1 place du Luxembourg, B-1040 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5120053, fax +32-2-5126673, e-mail Jef.Europe@agora.stm.it 09.06.96-16.06.96 "Festival Mundial 1996 - One World...One Future" International Music Festival in Tilburg (NL) organised by Centrum voor Internationale Samenwerking voices of the world, new folk / roots evening, music groups from all over the world, information, international food, children games, dancing... contact: COS/VWW, Stationsstraat 39, NL-5038 EC Tilburg, phone +31-13-5431335, fax +31-13-5437096 10.06.96-12.06.96 "Youth Work in a Multicultural Society - Problems and Practical Initiatives" Seminar in Vlotho (D) organised by Jugendhof Vlotho, Oeynhausenerstr. 1, D-32602 Vlotho 13.06-14.06.96 !!!!!!! "Speak Out for Refugees' Rights - Offensive for a 'Harmonisation of= European asylum Laws' on the Basis of Safe Refuge under Humanitarian= Conditions" !!!!!!! --- International Meeting in the European Parliament, Bruxelles (B) for all organisations and politicians interested in active support for refug= ees organised by UNITED with the support of many NGOs and the Green Group and the Socialist Group in the EP --- 12 important speakers will discuss with the participants on: =46ortress Europe, economic justice and migration, hot spots of human tragedies, protection for war refugees, harmonisation of the governments, amnesty for "illegal" immigrants, protection of asylum seekers, minimum demands for asylum procedures, direct support for (illegal) refugees, demands of Basso-Tribunal, possibilities for cooperation=8A send nominations to: UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 14.06.96-20.06.96 "Me and the Other - Youth From Germany and France Discuss About Prejudices and Racism" German - French Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 15.06.96-07.07.96 "Sura Za Africa Festival '96" Cultural events and Seminars in Wien (A) Themes: relation Africa - Austria... Contact: Sura Za Afrika '96, Favoritenstrasse 29-31/28, A-1040 Wien, phone +43-222-5032510 16.06.96 !!!!!!! "International Refugee Day" !!!!!!! --- Around this day dozens of activities will be organised by many refugee support organisations taking part in the UNITED Refugee Campaign --- Themes: European-wide asylum policy, deportation and detention, deaths through Fortress Europe... information at UNITED for Intercultural Action Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 16.06.96 "National Anti-Racist Demonstration" - in Helsinki (SF) contact: Finnish Antifa Coalition, Kalevankatu 1, SF-08100 Lohia, e.mail hraita@sockom.helsinki.fi 22.06.96-29.06.96 "Who's the Target!?" Week of Events in Maloja (CH) ..Themes: exclusion, xenophobia, racist violence... Contact: Stiftung Salecina, CH-7516 Maloja 27.06.96-29.06.96 "Asylum in Europe" International Symposium in Wien (A) Contact: Asylkoordination OEsterreich, Trattnerhof 2/14, A-1010 Wien, phone +43-1-5321291, fax +43-1-5337752 28.06.96-30.06.96 !!!!!!! "Communication Skills" !!!!!!! --- UNITED - Training Session in Romania for Anti-Nationalist and human rightsactivists in Romania --- Themes: conflict resolution, media work, dealing with authorities... organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action, Students' Association for Struggle against Racism (ASLIR) and Youth Action for Peace (YAP-MCP) contact: ASLIR, Dr Burghelea 10A, sect. 2 Bucharest, Romania, phone +40-1-3125097, fax +40-1-3125097 or YAP-MCP, PO Box 457, RO-3400 Cluj, phone +40-64-194623, fax +40-64-192474 28.06.96-06.07.96 17.11.96-26.11.96 "With an Eye on Germany - Youngsters Discuss Cultural Differences and the Meaning of the Holocaust in the 90s" Dutch - German Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 30.06.96-07.07.96 "Searching for Traces in Europe - Long-Term Effects of Fascism" International Conference in St. St. Andreasberg (D) Themes: planning of the Holocaust, health policy, visit of former KZ Mittelbau Dora, culture in fascism... contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 July 1996 "Network Development Focusing on Youth Issues in the Roma, Gypsy and Traveller Communities in Europe" International Seminar in Strasbourg (F) or Budapest (H) organised by Sheffield Gypsy & Traveller Support Group, Platf. de Juvenes Gitanos da Aragon, Otherness Foundation.. Themes: build mutual support systems, European structures, strengthen beliefs in their cultures... contact: Sheffield Gypsy & Traveller Support Group, 697 Attercliffe Road, GB- Sheffield, phone +44-114-2444377 01.07.96-26.07.96 "Forced Migration and Humanitarian Assistance" International Summer School in Oxford (GB) for experienced managers, administrators, fieldworkers involved in programmes of assistance and/or policy making in the humanitarian field organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: broad theoretical background to forced migration and assistance in practice, effectiveness of aid programmes, aspects of forcible displacement=8A contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 05.07.96-12.07.96 "Lets Get Organised" International Conference in Budapest (H) organised by International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organisation Themes: human rights, international youth work... contact: IGLYO, Postbus 542, NL-1000 AM Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6188172, fax +31-20-6169017, e.mail iglyo@intex.ie 07.07.96-13.07.96 "Human Rights and Citizenship: Approaches to Teaching and Learning" International Training Session in Geneva (CH) organised by International Training Centre on Human Rights and Peace Teachin= g Themes: legal and educational aspects of human rights conventions, non violent resolution of conflicts, to network with other human rights educators... contact: CIFEDHOP, 5 rue du Simplon, CH-1207 Geneva, phone +-41-22-7352422, fax +41-22-7350653 08.07.96-26.07.96 "57th Session - Human Rights Committee" - in Geneva (CH) contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, E. Tistounet, CH-1211 Geneve 10, phone +41-22-9173965 09.07.96-12.07.96 "Roma Studies" - International Conference in London (GB) for those who work for Travellers and/or Roma organised by University of Greenwich contact: Thomas Acton, School of Social Science, phone +44-181-3318923, fax +44-181-3318905 22.07.96-28.07.96 "The Power of Solidarity" World Festival 1996 in Bonn (D) organised by International Union of Socialist Youth 4000 young socialists and social democrats from all over the world will spend a week of political, cultural and social activities contact: IUSY, Neustiftgasse 3, A-1070 Wien, phone +43-1-5231267, fax+ 43-1-52695849, e.mail IUSY@blackbox.ping.at 26.07.96-17.08.96 "Remember - Meet - Understand - Planning the Future" International Youth Camp in Dachau (D) Contact: Kreisjugendring Dachau, Augsburgerstrasse 46, D-85221 Dachau, fax +49-8131-79244 27.07.96-30.07.96 "Envisioning Human Rights Education" 2nd International Pedagogic Peace-Conference in Lillehammer (N) organised by Paedagoginnen und Paedagogen fuer den Frieden Contact: Aud Elisabeth Wasa, Thv. Kisersv. 2, N-2400 Elverum 29.07.96-02.08.96 "Indigenous Population" International Working Group in Geneva (CH) organised by Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, J. Burger, CH-1211 Geneve 10, phone +41-22-9173413 until 30.07.96 "Quite Enough for That! All Against Violence" Campaign in Spain organised by Plataforma J=F3venes contra la Intolerancia Themes: acts against violence and intolerance, support to victims of violence, spreading of bulletins, radio programs and educational materials against racism and violence, cooperation with different NGO's... contact: Plataforma J=F3venes contra la Intolerancia-Secr.Tecnica, PJCI, c/ Larra 16-2=B0 izda., E-28004 Madrid, phone +34-1-5944920, fax +34-1-4452707 01.08.96-19.08.96 "Arte Diem - Tolerance Amongst the European Youth Using Culture as a Tool for Awareness Raising" International Seminar in Belgium organised by Youth Action for Peace Themes: prepare performances for an international festival on all different ideas about promoting tolerance in Europe, by the means of literature poetry, theatre, dance, music and visual arts... contact: YAP/MCP, 3 avenue du Parc Royal, B-1020 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-4789410, fax +32-2-4789432 03.08.96-11.08.96 "Living With Your Neighbour in Multiethnic States" International Walking Tour through Hungary, Romania, Croatia and the =46ederal Republic of Yugoslavia organised by Pax Christi Youth Forum - International 03.08.96-04.08.96"Opening Weekend in Budapest" 05.08.96-09.08.96"Sub-routes in Hungary, Romania, Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" 10.08.96-11.08.96"Closing Weekend in Szeged" Themes: mutual understanding, rights of minorities, tolerance... contact: PCYF, 21, rue du Vieux Marche aux Grains, B-1000 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5025550, fax +32-2-5024626 05.08.96-19.08.96 "European Anti-Racist Anti-War Tour and Youth Exchange" 10.08.96-12.08.96"Summer Camp" - in Frankfurt (D) 18.08.96-19.08.96"International Youth Conference" - in Strasbourg (F) for 16-19 years old and youth organisations interested in combating racism and militarism in Europe coordinated by School Campaign Against Militarism Themes: treatment of immigrants, combating Holocaust revisionism, controls on youth, joint activities and discussions in Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Strasbourg... contact: SCAM, 3/4 Dakota Buildings, James Street, GB-Birmingham B3 1SD,phone +44-121-2330970, fax 4713854 05.08.96-30.08.96 "48th Session - Subcommission on Human Rights" contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, J. Pace, CH-1211 Geneve 10, phone +41-22-9171093 09.08.96-17.08.96 "Youth Dialogue Program" - in Istanbul (TR) organised by Helsinki Citizens Assembly Turkey Themes: European citizenship, Europe & NGOs, integration from below, Europe & civic involvement.. contact: Ebru Kunt, fax +90-212-2464946 11.08.96-18.08.96 "Contact to Minorities" German - Hungarian Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 14.08.96 "Start of the Trial Against 17 Assumed Members of the Autonome Antifa (M)" (foreseen)contact: Autonome Antifa (M), c/o Buchladen Rote Strasse 10, D-37073 Goettingen, phone +49-551-394569, fax +49-551-394564, e.mail aam@paxo.nadir.org 18.08.96 "Racism Beat It 1996" Annual Pop-Festival in recreation area Spaarnwoude near Amsterdam (NL) contact: Pop Against Racism, Nieuwe Kerkstraat 37, NL-1018 DX Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6277766, fax 4205446 24.08.96-07.09.96 "Ethno-Religious Tolerance as a Prerequisite for Social Work; An Example - Bulgaria" International Seminar in different cities in Bulgaria organised by Youth Express Network Themes: theoretical and practical consideration of a multi-cultural and multi-religious society... contact: Youth Express Network, 16 rue du Chateau d'Angleterre, F-67300 Schiltigheim, phone +33-88-620998, fax +33-88-371936 25.08.96-14.09.96 "Peoples Diplomacy - Non-Violence and Migration" International Course in Rovereto (I) organised by International University of Peoples Institutions for Peace Themes: peoples diplomacy, non-violence, human costs of migration, legal aspects of migration, economics of migration, non-violent resolution of the ethnic conflicts in Trentino Alto Adige... contact: IUPIP, c/o Opera Campana dei Caduti, Colle di Miravalle, I-38068 Rovereto (TN), phone +39-464-434412, fax +39-464-434084 25.08.96-31.08.96 "The Right to be Different Today in a Building European Society" International Seminar in Czech Republic organised by European Union of Jewish Students Themes: relation between Jews and European neighbours through history, Jew's legal status (civil rights, emancipa-tion), implication of new politics towards national groups... contact: EUJS, 89 chaussee de Vleurgat, B-1050 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6477279, fax +32-2-6482431 27.08.96-31.08.96 "Health Promotion for Older Migrants" International Conference in Heidelberg (D) organised by Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg and the European Network on Ageing and Ethnicity Themes: models of health promotion on an international basis, implications for a European network of health promotion for older migrants... contact: G. Conrad, Uissigheimer Strasse 10, D-97956 Gamburg, phone +49-9348-1381, fax +49-9348-1360, e.mail paas@urz.uni-heidelberg.de 27.08.96-01.09.96 "The Role of the Mediator in a Cross Cultural Conflict" International Seminar in Trysil (Norway) organised by European Educational Exchanges - Youth for Understanding Themes: solving conflicts between immigrants and autochtones, peaceful= conflict solving... contact: EEE-YFU, Van Geertstraat 69, B-2140 Borgerhout, phone +32-3-2360636, fax +32-3-2361457 31.08.96-08.09.96 "Racism and Right-Wing Extremism in Germany and Italy - No Way Out?" German - Italian Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 September 1996 "Non-Violence - the Road to a Peaceful Europe" (foreseen)International Seminar in Strasbourg (F) or Budapest (H) organised by Federation of Young European Greens Themes: conflict prevention and resolution, conflict in the Balkans, non-violence... contact: FYEG, 12, rue Charles VI ,B-1030 Bruxelles, fax +32-2-217529 08.09.96 "Racial Justice Sunday" - in Great Britain contact: Churches Commission for Racial Justice. 35-41 Lower Marsh, GB-London SE1 7RL, phone +44-171-6204444, fax +44-171-9280010 09.09.96-13.09 96 "Reconstructing Livelihoods Towards a New Model of Resettlement for Development Displacees and Refugees" International Course in Oxford (GB) organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: separation between studies of disaster-related refugees and studies of populations uprooted by development projects... contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 10.09.96-12.09.96 "Tolerance and Intolerance" International Conference in Southampton (GB) organised by Centre for the Study of Relations between Jewish and non-Jewish peoples at the University of Southampton Themes: Jewish/non Jewish relations, patterns of toleration, 'aliens' then and now, religion, tolerance and intolerance, fighting intolerance... contact: Sian Jones, Dep. of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Highfield, GB-Southampton SO17 1BJ, phone +44-1703-592202, fax +44-1703-593032 14.09.96-15.09 96 "Asylum in a Frontier-Free Europe" International Course in Oxford (GB) organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: recent developments of the European Commission/Court of Human Rights and Committee on the UN Torture Convention, application of the Schengen and Dublin Conventions across Europe... contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 16.09.96-20.0.96 "Re-Thinking Psycho-Social Interventions" International Course in Oxford (GB) for those who design, implement and fund programmes in the field of mental health organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: trauma of violent conflict and forced displacement, cultural relativity, targeting particular types of trauma, present a social development framework... contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 20.09.96-22.09.96 !!!!!!! "Fundraising" !!!!!!! --- UNITED - Training Session in Praha (CZ) --- for anti-nationalist and human rights activists in the Czech Republic organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action and DUHA Rainbow Association Themes: international resources, national government subventions, sponsorship, writing applications, lobbying funders, networking... contact: UNITED - Praha Office / DUHA, Senov=E1zne n=E1m. 24, CZ-11647 Praha= 1, phone +42-2-24102469, fax +42-2-24102375, e-mail Prokes.Miroslav@ecn.gn.apc.= org 24.09.96-27.09.96 "Constitutional and Legal Issues Concerning Protection of National Minoritie= s" International Conference in Warsaw (PL) organised by OSCE - Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights contact: ODIHR, Krucza 36 / Wsp=F3lna 6, PL-00522 Warszawa, phone +48-2-6257040, fax +48-2-6254357, e.mail odihrosc@atos.warman.com.pl 24.09.96-28.09.96 "Refugee Day" =46ive One-Day-Seminars in Thueringen (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. Themes: reasons for refuge, ethnic conflicts, civil wars, ex-Yugoslavia, asylum policy in Germany and Europe... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-5961444 29.09.96-05.10.96 "All Together for Justice" Intercultural Week / Week for Foreigners in Germany organised by churches, migrant organisations, Stiftung Mitarbeit... contact: Stiftung Mitarbeit, Bornheimer Strasse 37, D-53111 Bonn, phone +49-228-630023, fax +49-228-695421 October 1996 "Citizenship-Citoyennete-Staatsbuergerschaft: The Identity and Mobility of Young People in Europe" (foreseen)International Seminar in Strasbourg (F) or Budapest (H) organised by European Federation of Youth Service Organisations Themes: search for identity, difficulty of mobility, place in society and in associations... contact: EFYSO, 3, rue Recamier, F-75341 Paris CEDEX 07, phone +33-1-43589797, fax +33-1-43589788 October 1996 "Present and Future Role of Minority Women in Europe" (foreseen)International Seminar in Budapest (H) organised by Young Women from Minorities Network as a follow up of the "All Different - All Equal" campaign Themes: intercultural challenges and opportunities, European networks and solidarity, exchanges and discussions, analysis of methods and approaches to play a role in their community... contact: WFM, c/o Nadia Banno, Multicultural Centre, Vaerdshusvaegen 46, S-14785 Tumba, phone +46-8-53062569, fax +46-8-53062550 October 1996 "Multicultural Societies: The Case of Switzerland" International Seminar in Switzerland organised by International Christian Youth Exchange - Europe Themes: Swiss situation as study case, understand consequences of a multicultural Europe... contact: ICYE, Naamsesteenweg 164, B-3001 Leuven, phone +32-16-233762, fax +32-16-295099 04.10.96-12.10.96 "Local, National, European - How Many Homes do we Need?" German - English Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 05.10.96 "Christian Racial Justice Forum" =46orum in Manchester (GB) contact: Churches Commission for Racial Justice, 35-41 Lower Marsh, GB-London SE1 7RL, phone +44-171-6204444, fax +44-171-9280010 09.10-13.10.96 !!!!!!! "Europe United! - Cooperation Against Nationalism and Racism" !!!!! --- UNITED - Conference in Stockholm (S) --- organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action Delegates from Central and East European anti-nationalist and human rights organisations will meet with their Western counterparts to discuss common strategies for action. contact: UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 20.10.96-26.10.96 "Violence and Racism" =46rench - German Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) Theatre role games... contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 20.10.96-27.10.96 "Racism and Discrimination Here - A Multicultural Society Elsewhere. How Different are our Societies?" German - English Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 21.10.96-08.11.96 "58th Session - Human Rights Committee" - in Geneva (CH) contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, E. Tistounet, CH-1211 Geneve 10, phone +41-22-9173965 26.10.96-02.11.96 "Youth Without Borders - Working for International Understanding" International Seminar in Lublin (PL) organised by World Organisation of Young Esperantists Themes: nationalism, internationalism, youth campaigning for international understanding... contact: TEJO, Nieuwe Binnenweg 176, NL-3015 BJ Rotterdam, phone +31-10-4361044, fax +31-10-4361751 November 1996 "60th Anniversary of the Defence of Madrid Against the Fascists" International Meeting in Madrid (E) November 1996 "The Borders of Europe - A Human Scrapyard?" International Seminar in Hungary organised by Service Civil International Themes: campaign for fairer legislation and policies, develop concrete actions, mobilise the voluntary services in Central and Eastern Europe, fight for refugee's rights... contact: SCI, European Office, Draakstraat 37, B-2018 Antwerpen, phone +32-3-2359473, fax +32-3-2352973, e.mail SCISEED@SCI.KNOOPPUNT.BE November 1996 "Dialogue....Towards Cooperation with and Between the Countries of Former Yugoslavia" (foreseen)International Seminar in Strasbourg (F) organised by Council of European National Youth Committees Themes: tolerance, conflict resolution and reconciliation, future actions... contact: CENYC, 517-519, chaussee de Wavre, B-1040 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6489101, fax +32-2-6489640, e.mail CENYC@blackbox.ping.at November 1996 "The Balkans and the Right to Refuse to Kill" (foreseen)International Seminar in Budapest (H) organised by European Bureau for Conscientious Objection Themes: non-violence, conscientious objectors in Western Europe and in the Balkans.. contact: EBCO, 35, rue Van Elewyck, B-1050 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6485220, fax 8400774, e.mail ebco@ gn.apc.org 06.11.96-12.11.96 "Intercultural Awareness" International Seminar on Cyprus organised by World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts contact: WAGGGS, Olave Centre - 12c Lyndhurst Road, GB- London NW3 5PQ, phone +44-171-7941181, fax +44-171-4313764 07.11.96-09.11.96 "Broadcasting for a Multicultural Society" 8th European Television and Film Forum in Amsterdam (NL) and the first award ceremony of the Prix Iris, media awards for a multicultural Europe organised by European Institute for the Media and Anti Discriminatie Overleg contact: European Institute for the Media, Kaistrasse 13, D-40221 Duesseldor= f, phone +49-211-9010479, fax +49-211-9010456 9.11.96 !!!!!!! "Commemoration of the Kristallnacht - International Day Against =46ascism and Antisemitism" !!!!!!! --- Joint campaign of anti-fascist, anti-racist, human rights and Jewish organisations both inside and outside the UNITED network. --- The main focus will be on the persecution of Jews and the denial of the worsening situation of refugees and Roma as well as the situation of gays and handicapped people. UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 09.11.96 "Anti-Semitism and Racism in Past and Present" Commemoration Day in Erfurt (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. Themes: memorial activities, history, racism and anti-semitism... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-5961444 11.11.96-15.11.96 "Don't Call us Zigeuner/Gypsies" Seminar in Koeln (D) organised by OEkologie-Stiftung Themes: Roma and Sinti in Germany... contact: OEkologie-Stiftung NRW, Union Gewerbehof - Huckarder Str. 12, D-44147 Dortmund, phone +49-231-7214082, fax +49-2317214085 19.11.96-24.11.96 "Refugee and Immigration Policies" International Seminar in Bucharest (RO) organised by International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth Themes: history of migration, case studies, situation and rights of refugees and migrants, the right of asylum, how to improve the situation of refugees and migrants... contact: IFLRY, PO Box 781, B-1000 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5124457, fax +32-2-5024122, e.mail IFLRY@unicall.be 22.11.96-24.11.96 "Anti-Semitism" Seminar in Berbra-Weiterode (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. in cooperation with IG Metall Themes: anti-semitic attitudes in Germany, history of anti-semitism after 1945... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-5961444 27.11.96-06.12.96 "The Typical and the Unknown - Europe Between Integration and Exclusion" German - Italian Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 01.12.96-06.12.96 "The Citizen and the Police in Europe" German - English Conference in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 08.12.96-13.12.96 "Intercultural Communication" German - English Training for youth and social workers in St. Andreasberg (D= ) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 1997 "European Year Against Racism" proposed by European Commission to the European Council Dec 96/ Jan 97 (foreseen) !!!!!!! "UNITED-Conference in Bratislava" (Slovakia) !!!!!!! --- organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action --- Delegates from Central and East European anti-nationalist and human rights organisations will meet with their Western counterparts to discuss common strategies for action= .. contact: UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 17.08.97-21.08.97 "Violence and Human Coexistence" World Congress in Dublin (IRL) organised by Department Sociology / University College Dublin Theme: violence and the future of society, human rights, minority rights and ethnic relations, culture and violence... contact: Jessica Bates, Dept. Sociology / University College Dublin, Belfield, IRL-Dublin 4, fax +353-1-7061125, e.mail jess.bates@ucd.ie ____________________________________________________ 1996 "Sessions of the european Parliament" - in Strasbourg and Bruxelles 15-19 April (Strasb) 08-09 May (Brux) 20-24 May (Strasb) 05-06 June (Brux) 17-21 June (Strasb) 03-04 July (Brux) 15-19 July (Strasb) 04-05 September (Brux) 16-20 September (Strasb) 21-25 October (Strasb) 11-15 November (Strasb) 27-28 November (Brux) 09-13 December (Strasb) 1996-2000 "EU Presidencies" 1996 Italy, Ireland 1997 Netherlands, Luxembourg 1998 Britain, Austria 1999 Germany, Finland 2000 Portugal, ? --========================_14159810==_ ********************************************************* UNITED for Intercultural Action European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees Postbus 413 NL-1000 AK Amsterdam The Netherlands tel.no. +31-20-6834778 fax. no. +31-20-6834582 e-mail united@antenna.nl ******************************************************** Speak out for refugees rights! 16 JUNE 1996 International Refugee Day ******************************************************** --========================_14159810==_--