Friday December 10th is International Human Rights Day. To mark that day, Bristol Stop The War Coalition is pleased to be joining with Bristol Refugee Rights and others in raising awareness of the serious matter of enforced returns of asylum seekers to Afghanistan and Iraq. The British government has categorised both these war-torn countries as 'safe places' to which asylum seekers will be forcibly returned. In many cases these are people who have lived in Britain for many years and made their homes here. Returning to Afghanistan and Iraq they face great danger. A recent report produced by Oxfam and 29 other aid organisations gives a clear description of the dangers to civilians in Afghanistan and the part the British & US occupation plays in creating these dangers. See http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/nowhere-turn where the report can be downloaded.

There will be direct testimony from a former member of Bristol Refugee Rights who has been returned to Afghanistan and from others who have direct up-to-date knowledge of the situation 'on the ground'.

Come and hear how the British Government is endangering the lives of Afghan and Iraqi asylum-seekers by forcibly deporting them to their countries of origin.

Venue :Refugee Welcome Centre, Newton Hall, Newton Street, Bristol, BS5 0QZ

Date: 10th December 2010

6pm – Welcome with food from around the world

7pm – Learn the facts on enforced deportations and how to help campaign against them – testimony from asylum seekers, plus Minoo Jalali ( former legal officer at Avon and Bristol Law Centre) and Steve Bell (Stop The War Coalition)

8.30pm – Fund-raising Party - music, theatre and dancing

Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/?where1=BS5%200QZ%20,GB&FORM=M...REDIR

For further information email bristolstopwar@hotmail.com