Pro asylum

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pro asylum
logo
legal form registered association
founding 1986
founder Jürgen Micksch , Herbert Leuninger
Seat Frankfurt am Main
motto The individual case counts.
main emphasis Right of asylum
Chair
Managing directors Günter Burkhardt
sales 4,715,489 EUR (2017)
Members 24,126
Website www.proasyl.de
As of December 31, 2017

Pro Asyl (written in capital letters ) is a German association based in Frankfurt am Main . The human rights organization advocates the protection and rights of asylum seekers in Germany and Europe. In addition to public relations and political lobbying , research and the support of nationwide initiative groups, the association wants to accompany refugees in their asylum procedures. Employees from national refugee councils, churches, trade unions, welfare and human rights organizations are represented in the Federal Working Group Pro Asyl. At the end of 2017, 24,126 people were members of the Pro Asyl Association.

history

The association was founded in 1986 a. a. founded by today's honorary chairman Jürgen Micksch , Herbert Leuninger and others, with the aim of establishing a voice for the rights of refugees in Germany in the asylum debate . In 1998 the association was awarded the Bonhoeffer Prize and in 2001 the Aachen Peace Prize. In 2001 the association received a Theodor Heuss Medal as co-editor of the Fundamental Rights Report together with other civil and human rights organizations .

In 2010, the association received the Göttingen Peace Prize, and the stop dying campaign was honored , with which the association drew attention to the fact that many refugees die every year trying to reach Europe. In 2011 the association was awarded the special prize for the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize “for its commitment to protecting persecuted people in Germany and Europe, also here with regard to the flow of refugees from North Africa to Europe”.

Projects and Campaigns

Right to stay campaign

One focus of the association since 2003 has been the campaign “Stayed here - Right to Stay.” It is about people who live in Germany and are integrated, but who are only legally tolerated and are threatened with deportation. In the opinion of the association, the immigration law was only able to partially solve this problem.

Some organizations support the association in calling for a more generous right of residence regulation . Basic initiatives carried the campaign to the federal states and municipalities. The association has developed posters, leaflets and a background brochure for this purpose. Panel discussions, demonstrations, theater performances and film screenings took place.

European refugee policy

The partly military armament at the EU's external borders , the pressure on poorer border countries, the "brutalization tendencies" in dealing with migrants and a lack of common European asylum law prevent refugees from finding protection in Europe, according to the association.

Together with European partner organizations, the association researches the situation of refugees at the EU's external borders in Greece, Spain, Italy and Hungary and makes the results public in documentation. At the political level, the association advocates humane reception conditions for migrants and compliance with human rights standards in Europe. An example of this is the call "Stop dying in the Mediterranean!"

The association is particularly active in connection with the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015 , especially in connection with the tightening of the German asylum law on November 1, 2015.

The critical observation of European refugee policy in general and interference in current political debates are also part of the association's activities. With 74 partner organizations from 29 European countries, the association is involved in the European Council on Refugees and Exiles in Brussels.

financing

The non-profit association is financed from membership fees and donations.

The organization has been working closely with Die Toten Hosen for many years , and the band repeatedly gives concerts in their favor and solicits support from their fans. Pro Asyl occasionally travels with the band to their tour stages and is represented with information stands and mobile staff in the various arenas. On these concert tours alone, more than 30,000 signatures for petitions submitted later have already been collected several times.

Pro Asyl eV

Board

  • Chairman: Andreas Lipsch, Frankfurt / M.
  • Deputy Chairman: Hubert Heinhold, lawyer, Munich
  • Treasurer: Andreas Schwantner, Neu-Isenburg
  • Managing director: Günter Burkhardt

Basics

In line with its motto “The individual case counts”, the association is fundamentally against blanket restrictions on the right of asylum in its statements, e. B. against blanket characterizations or differentiations between so-called economically and politically persecuted refugees and against the blanket designation of so-called safe countries of origin .

Pro Asylum Foundation

Pro Asylum Foundation
legal form Foundation, endowment
founding 2002
Seat Frankfurt am Main
Chair Andreas Lipsch
Managing directors Günter Burkhardt
Website www.proasyl.de/de/ueber-uns/stiftung

In 2002 the Pro Asyl Foundation (written in capitals) was established as an additional, independent institution. She takes on long-term tasks that complement the work of the Pro Asyl eV association. The goals of the foundation based in Frankfurt am Main are gradually being implemented in projects.

Human rights award

The foundation awards the “PRO-ASYL-Hand” human rights award. The prize honors people and initiatives for their special commitment to migrants at Europe's external borders.

The prize was awarded for the first time in 2006 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the association and went to Stefan Schmidt, captain of the Cap Anamur , who took in refugees in distress in 2004 and was brought to justice by the Italian authorities, and to Ferenc Kőszeg, who has been committed to human and refugee rights in Hungary, Poland and the Ukraine for many years.

In 2007 the human rights award was given to José Palazón Osma and Maite Echarte Mellado by the children's rights organization PRODEIN for their work for refugee children in the Spanish exclave of Melilla .

In 2008 the foundation awarded its human rights award to the Athens lawyer Marianna Tzeferakou . She was also honored on behalf of the Group of Lawyers (Greek Association of Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants) and the solidarity groups on Chios, Samos and Lesbos for their commitment to migrants on the European external border and the Greek detention camps.

In 2009 the prize was awarded to Nissrin Ali and Felleke Bahiru Kum. The refugees, who were themselves forced to live in communal accommodation, campaigned for the respect for the human dignity of refugees and the abolition of living in communal accommodation, thus triggering a much-noticed political debate in Bavaria.

In 2010 the Italian journalist Gabriele Del Grande , who has been documenting human rights violations on Europe's borders for years, was honored with the award.

In 2011 Julia Kümmel was awarded the prize. In 2003, she distributed leaflets at Frankfurt Airport against the deportation of an Iraqi to Greece. The Fraport AG , the operating company of the airport, it has been given then a home ban and threatened her with a criminal complaint for trespassing. Kümmel, on the other hand, sued the Federal Constitutional Court , which ruled in February 2011 that German airports are not areas free of fundamental rights. With their commitment, Kümmel fought for demonstrations to be allowed at Germany's airports.

In 2012 the award went to Gergishu Yohannes from Eritrea. Her brother died with 76 other boat refugees in the Mediterranean. Yohannes then brought about 1,300 relatives together in an interest group and filed a complaint against the Italian state on their behalf for failure to provide assistance resulting in death.

In 2013, the couple Luise and Gerjet Harms were awarded the human rights award - on behalf of everyone who campaigned for Gazale Samale and their children to return to Germany. Thanks to their commitment, the family was able to be reunited eight years after the deportation.

In 2014 Fabrizio Gatti received the award for discovering that 260 Libyan boat refugees died on October 11, 2013 because Italian authorities ignored their distress call for several hours.

In 2015, the US deserter André Shepherd received the award, who withdrew from his service in the US army so as not to be deployed again in the Iraq war, and in 2008 he applied for asylum in Germany, which was rejected. He then sued various German and European authorities in order to clarify beyond his case that all soldiers who evade acts that violate international law by deserting have a right to protection. In a judgment of February 26, 2015, the ECJ ruled that a deserter from a third country with a merely supporting function could also have asylum if the probability of future war crimes is high. Refugee protection, on the other hand, is excluded if the applicant has not primarily sought recognition as a conscientious objector , unless such a procedure was not available to him.

In 2016, Father Mussie Zerai received the Human Rights Award. The Catholic priest has been helping refugees in distress for over ten years.

2017, the prize went to synagogue Wolfgang Seibert from Pinneberg and Rev. Doris Otminghaus from Hassfurt , both by granting sanctuary of deporting asylum seekers from Germany to the Dublin-Reglungen had prevented in European countries.

In 2018 the Hungarian Helsinki Committee received an award.

On August 31, 2019, the PRO ASYL Foundation honored the lawyer Peter Fahlbusch in Frankfurt am Main with its 2019 Human Rights Award.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.proasyl.de/foerderverein/
  2. ↑ https://www.proasyl.de/geschaeftsstelle/
  3. ↑ a b Activity report 2017/18 [1] (PDF)
  4. ^ Federal Working Group Pro Asyl
  5. ↑ https://www.osnabrueck.de/friedenspreis/bisherige-preistraeger/2011-tahar-ben-jelloun-pro-asyl.html
  6. ↑ Brochure for the campaign "Stayed Here - Right to Stay." ( Memento from November 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  7. ↑ Topic EU policy
  8. ↑ a b Imprint , proasyl.de
  9. ↑ Inga Rahmsdorf: Asylum Procedure - Questioned and Deported , sueddeutsche.de, June 15, 2010, accessed on September 25, 2016
  10. ↑ Review 2011 , am-spiegelgasse.de
  11. ^ Prize winner 2006 , Pro-Asyl-Website
  12. ↑ 2007 award winners , Pro-Asyl website
  13. ^ Awardee 2008 , Pro-Asyl-Website
  14. ↑ Prize Winner 2009 , Pro-Asyl-Website
  15. ^ Prize winners 2010 , Pro-Asyl website
  16. ^ Message from the 2011 award winner ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Pro-Asyl website
  17. ^ Prize winners 2013 , Pro-Asyl website
  18. ↑ Foundation Pro Asyl: André Shepherd receives human rights award , proasyl.de, August 25, 2015. Retrieved on September 25, 2016
  19. ↑ Judgment of the Court of Justice (Second Chamber) of February 26, 2015: Andre Lawrence Shepherd v Federal Republic of Germany, Case C-472/13, ECLI : EU: C: 2015: 117 ( curia.europa.eu ).
  20. ↑ ECJ: High demands on the asylum claim of a deserter in the US armed forces , Beck-Online, February 26, 2015.
  21. ↑ Mussie Zerai honored with the human rights award of the PRO ASYL foundation
  22. ↑ The PRO ASYL Foundation's human rights award goes to synagogue director Wolfgang Seibert from Pinneberg and pastor Doris Otminghaus from Haßfurt
  23. ↑ "Laudation for the awarding of the human rights prize by the Pro Asyl Foundation on 9.9.2017" proasyl.de from September 17, 2017
  24. ↑ Defying inhuman refugee policy: The Hungarian Helsinki Committee on proasyl.de
  25. ↑ Unlawful detention pending deportation: “It's about us. About how we live our constitution « Interview with Peter Fahlbusch
    Lawyer Peter Fahlbusch receives human rights award from Pro Asyl. In: time. September 1, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .