Eight million children under the age of five die each year from largely preventable causes. One billion people live in abject poverty. Thousands die crossing international borders while fleeing poverty, war or persecution. Countries reinforce barriers, laws and measures to prevent people crossing their borders, while frequently violating the human rights of migrants living in their midst. Hundreds of thousands are held in migration prisons as if they were criminals. Frequently migrant workers face harsh working conditions that can in their worst cases amount to slavery. Millions have been expelled in operations to remove undocumented migrants. 67 million people live as refugees or are internally displaced as a result of persecution, war, poverty or other causes. The number of refugee places offered by countries to officially resettle refugees is tiny in comparison to the millions in search of home and safety.
Believing that human beings are “foreigners” makes such profound human rights violations possible.
This website is dedicated to abolishing foreignness: that is, to promoting understanding and awareness of the effects and nature of exclusion on the basis of “foreignness” and to ending human rights violations against non-citizens. It is made possible by the voluntary contributions of individuals concerned about these human rights abuses.
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Mario Gonzalez (Spanish Translations)
Emrys Nekvapil and also at Do Foreigners Have the Same Human Rights as the Rest of Us?
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