We believe in the transformative power of creative expression to provoke debate and move people to act against inequity. Do you have a short story to tell about a worst experience encountered in asylum
Storytelling breaks down the imaginary walls that separate us to be able to capture oppressed people’s everyday struggles, dreams, pains, and triumphs in order for us to take action to challenge inhumanity
Your story evokes emotions, illuminates injustice, and motivates individuals to get involved in advocating for Asylum Seekers rights to Freedom.
Remember stories can serve as a catalyst for public discourse, policy changes, and even grassroots movements.
Whichever case you have encountered that is abusive to your asylum status, the story could be about
Nasty meals at an asylum reception, discrimination, an asylum related Staff abusing your right/s, exploitative asylum camp worker, an unsafe abortion that took place in your shared asylum, accommodation, a government official racially scolding at you, lack of mental health care, exploitative workplace because of your asylum status, unconstitutional denial of welfare support, racism, torture, dirty infectious toilets, white supremacy.
We are collecting
1000 1000 Stories of
Nasty meals at an asylum reception
Exploitative asylum camp workers
A government official racially scolding at you
Denial of welfare support
Discrimination
Torture
Lack of mental health care
Racism
White Supremacy
An asylum related Staff abusing your right/s
An unsafe abortion that took place in your shared asylum accommodation
An exploitative workplace because of your asylum status
Dirty infectious toilets
You can also submit your story via a telephone call, or WhatsApp call on +4915213176746
or email your short story to: storiesofkillerasylums@asylumseekerdefenders.org
Dont worry, we will keep every detail of your Person confidential and anonymous.
You can also choose to be anonymous.
Persons of color are 10 times more likely to be stopped and asked for their residence status in countries of the European Union,
while majority of asylum Case workers could be practicing racial inequity assessing cases. This is justified by the fact that at least 85% of asylum applications turned down, are granted asylum when appealed in court.
Where is Social Justice; equality, freedom and fairness!
For more than 20 decades, people in Asylum have lacked a corridor to assert their voices to expose their sorrowful grievances. From the early 18th and 19th century gruesome asylums where disabled persons and mentally sick people were kept under brutal ill treatment in the most dark history of insane asylums, to the current servitude asylums were humans are reduced to living like animals, defecating in buckets and watching others in sexual encounters in packed up shared rooms, people in asylum have endured the most inhuman horrific experiences of life, causing catastrophes of undisclosed millions of deaths by suicide in humanity, in modern day civilization. For asylum seekers whose mental and immunity health cannot stand brutal inhuman prison and slavery similar conditions, the first year in asylum is the last one to live, their tales can only be told in dreams by their demised souls to the loved ones left back at home.
We address the most undisclosed cruel, silent, suicidal oppression in the history of civilisation and the developed world.
My legs could hardly support the upper weight of my body any longer and the pain in my left thigh due to the hitting in prison with batons had increased, a doctor had advised caution, that baton torture could cause severe injuries including bone fractures, nerve/muscle damage and internal injuries which may result in permanent disability or death. I could barely speak. Time check – a quarter passed 10am and the weather was perfectly warm.
“I’m looking for a place where I have to declare myself for protection, asylum”, I ask three young men who appeared to be of Arab descent, sited behind a weathered wooden table just immediately after turning right to a building I had been guided to by an English-speaking gentleman.
“Asylum? One of them responds inquisitively, but before I could respond, he continues loudly, “New, new, you-war-rinew?” speaking English arrogantly mingled with heavy Arabic accent, I could now tell they were Syrians.
I affirmatively respond, “Yes I’m new, I’m here for asylum”.
My brain was struggling to fight off depression and questions like what would be my destiny in this, would the regime pick me up from here and take me back, where was I going to sleep, who would provide food and what food awaited me, how did the toilets and bathrooms look like, but until now I could never believe what my heart kept telling me, all I could feel echoing in my heart was; Welcome to another Hell!
Welcome to another Hell!
Our Work
The Global Asylum Seeker Human Rights Defenders Committee (GASHDC) works at the local, regional, and international levels to address asylum embedded human rights abuses, monitor and inspect asylum third-party country destinations and amplify the voices of human rights defenders in asylum as we strive to bring to an end the inhuman degradation faced by asylum seekers. Asylum is currently a new global phenomenon that needs to directly address the human rights of people associated. Our approach strengthens asylum seekers’ position to defend their rights, positioning them at the forefront of acting.
Our Work
The Global Asylum Seeker Human Rights Defenders Committee (GASHDC) is a Frontline marginalized people’s social justice movement working at the local, regional, and international levels to address asylum embedded human rights abuses, monitor and inspect asylum third-party country destinations and amplify the voices of human rights defenders in asylum as we strive to bring to an end the inhuman degradation faced by asylum seekers. Asylum is currently a new global phenomenon that needs to directly address the human rights of people associated. Our approach strengthens asylum seekers’ position to defend their rights, positioning them at the forefront of acting.
Impacted by systemic oppression, the Global Asylum Seeker Human Rights Defenders Committee (GASHDC) is for the first time in decades…..
We work to address issues of systemic inequity and racism in asylum seekers workplaces worldwide, fight for asylum seekers improved working conditions and advance the role of human rights defenders trapped in asylum in building more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable asylum seekers communities.
….a frontline marginalized people’s Social Justice global movement working on the front lines of social change to end the brutal inhumanity embedded within asylum systems.
GASHDC closes the huge fallback gap that will be created in the realisation of the Global Goals as a result of the huge number of people currently on the move due to heightened displacement because of war, climate change and failed economies.
At the beginning of the year 2024
people were displaced by persecution and conflict.
Asylums
18th and 19th Century
Stories from the 18th and early 19th Centuries indicate how patients in mental and disabled people’s asylums were often kept in the most horrendous conditions. Lack of hygiene, overcrowding and abuse of patients, asylums packed with 3,700 people but built for 100 times fewer people.
“These asylums were HORRIBLE, beyond most descriptions of hell. Mental abuse, physical, emotional, sexual, etc was common,” writes Robert Horning a former retired Public-School Educator (1982–2012)
It wasn’t until the terrifying conditions were revealed through undercover investigations and patient witnesses that they were brought to light. In 1851, Isaac Hunt, a former patient at the Maine Insane Hospital sued the facility, describing it as the most iniquitous, villainous system of inhumanity. Given the severe overcrowding, patients were no longer given private rooms of their own and shared a single bedroom with five to six other patients. There were not enough beds nor heating systems. The abuse and neglect of patients, for example, inside the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum remained largely unknown to the public until 1949, when The Charleston Gazette reported on its terrifying conditions. Shockingly, it continued its operations until 1994 when it was finally shut down forever.
Asylums
19th and 20th Century
Asylum seekers are living awfully similar to the traumatizing lunatic asylum accommodations of the 18th and 19th century. Men look on as others play sex in shared compacted rooms, toilets are highly infectious and a smoking ground of narcotic drugs, women defecate in small buckets in shared rooms to avoid direct contact with toilets highly infested with urinary tract infections. There is rampant use of uncertified abortion pills and methods, unhealthy coughing and spiting in rooms, contagious flu, lack of critical timely monitored HIV treatment therapy, frequent commotion at night causing insomnia, horrific living conditions where asylum seekers are often held in limbo of what their future beholds.
With the extremely long case-processing duration, their professions are being killed slowly and systemically to turn them to unskilled labour thus they are subjected to tiresome work that does not commensurate payment in warehouses, factories, and on farms, and worldwide, every year, as they live in a contemporary form of servitude, a substantial number of asylum seekers commit suicide without any investigations, and in developed countries where this is rampant, states have kept silent, justifying the manipulation of asylum into colonial similar servitude.
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”
Anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise worldwide, and each day is a battle against the inhumanity in asylum. With the heightening racism and far-right activism, everyday the line between death (due to depression and violence) and life becomes thinner, we walk this line everyday.
As they wander for protection, asylum seekers are met with racism, the abusive challenges of asylum bureaucratic systems, and the manipulation of asylum into servitude. With different backgrounds and professions, asylum seekers are currently the most voiceless, marginalized, traumatically living ignored populations worldwide with no freedom of speech, movement, work and family access. Their voices are silenced with intricate authoritarianism, and quite often they are subjected to extreme racism and exploitation. Unlike lunatic asylums of the 1900s where patients endured forced drugging by their caretakers, people in the current immigration asylums are taking narcotic drugs voluntarily to protect their emotional well-being from the daily traumatic harsh conditions in which they live.
The exploitative asylum immigration structures masked under country specific immigration laws contradicting UN’s international proclaimed human rights have been long due to be addressed ➜
As racial extremism against asylum seekers communities intensifies worldwide, gender-based violence in asylum seekers’ communities will also exacerbate. Ensuring the protection of gender related issues in asylum is now critically essential. Advancing gender equality is critical to all areas of a healthy society, from reducing poverty to promoting the health, education, protection and the well-being of girls and boys.
Women live in horrific conditions in asylum. They are forced to defecate in small buckets in shared rooms to avoid direct contact with toilets highly infested with urinary tract infections. There is rampant use of uncertified abortion pills and methods, and a lack of critical timely monitored HIV therapy.
Gender equality is an essential fundamental human right that should be realized in order to achieve peaceful societies with full human potential and sustainable development.➜
Worldwide, asylum seekers are struggling with low Wages, unequal pay, discrimination, molestation, exploitation, inappropriate taxi returns, and a lack of transparency at the workplace.
As far-right extremism against asylum seekers exacerbates worldwide, ensuring the protection of asylum seekers rights at the work-place is essential to achieve decent work for all men and women. GASHDC steers the Global Confederation of Asylum Seeker Workers Unions, a globally interconnected platform for the voices of asylum seekers at the workplace and a network of asylum seeker workers trade unions worldwide, working together to ensure that asylum seeker workers’ voices are heard and that their health and Labour rights are recognized and protected. Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights emphasizes that everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work, and to protection against unemployment. Everyone has the right to equal pay for equal work without any discrimination. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his or her interests.
GASHDC ensures that asylum seekers have the information, rights, and power to drive change.➜
From activism at home to deathly asylums in exile, human rights defenders who have experienced grave torture and persecution arrive at the so-called safe destinations exhausted, withered and barely able to move on, their nervous systems have been affected by both what they encountered in their countries of origin and the environments and poor feeding they have gone through during their journey fleeing brutality. Sadly, what they find in the countries of rescue is more less the same, policies built on the hate for asylum seekers. They are met with extreme racism which exacerbates the trauma already being experienced. Racism inflicted on those who have already suffered unrelenting trauma will gravely torture the mind and often leaves the victim in a consistent abusive emotional state. Almost nobody will be openly racist in your face here in the West because there are laws against it, but deep on the ground in the society we live in, this is rampant and goes unexplained and unreported.
Victims of torture under the United Nations Convention against Torture are defined as persons who have individually or collectively suffered harm, including physical or mental injury, emotional suffering, economic loss or substantial impairment of their fundamental rights, through acts or omissions that constitute violations of the Convention. A person should be considered a victim regardless of whether the perpetrator of the violation is identified, apprehended, prosecuted or convicted.
GASHDC is the only entity worldwide honoring and remembering the work of human rights defenders who have fled torture and death. Donors and other human rights networks will only honor you and your sacrifices as a human rights defender only if you die, or if you do not press hard at the perpetrators to become a victim and thus escape. They don’t believe in your escape as human rights defenders, the reason human rights defenders are languishing in asylums without a voice. GASHDC calls for the classifying of asylum and a fast-track asylum procedural for human rights defenders who have endured torture and imprisonment in countries of origin.➜
Who We Are
The Global Asylum Seeker Human Rights Defenders Committee (GASHDC) is a Human rights Defenders in exile steered organization working around the clock to investigate and justify justice in the asylum procedural, amplify the voices of human rights defenders trapped in the inhuman asylum system, and heighten safety of exiled human rights defenders. Our philosophy is human centered based on the belief in human dignity, the right to equal freedom and peace to everyone.
In 2022, over 400 human rights defenders were murdered worldwide, those who often escape death languish in the complex inhuman asylum environments, where some resort to taking narcotic drugs. That is how human rights defenders who flee into exile are rewarded.
Defender turned victims
We are forgotten human rights defenders who have fled torture and death and now languishing in abusive asylum shared accommodations in exile.
Our Mission
To impede the global manipulation of asylum into colonial similar servitude and to counteract the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment embedded within asylum systems
Anne Rwigara, one of Rwanda’s most vocal social and political activists passed away in her home in California, United States on Thursday, December 28. Aged 41, she was said to have succumbed to multiple organ failures after suffering stomach complications.
However, according to Anne’s mother, her daughter’s death was startling since she was not ill at the time of her passing.
“She was not sick. It was just a matter of days. It’s just a mystery,” her mother, Adeline Rwigara stated, grieving at the unfortunate demise.
Even in exile, Human Rights Defenders are not Safe.
Voices of Human Rights Defenders in Asylum
Exiled human rights defender in asylum.
“For those of you out there still fighting for people’s human rights in your countries, this is a whistleblower, be careful, there is no protection here for critical safety. If the Afghan pilot who flew more than 30 sorties, fighting alongside British and US commanders against terrorist threats was at the verge of being deported from the UK, then open your eyes and understand the so called ‘protection’ in these so called ‘safe countries’, I advise you to stop your human rights hullabaloo if you still want your family to see you live long, some of us are thinking of committing suicide, many asylum seekers have taken their lives, after staying for so long in these killer asylums”
Exiled human rights defender in asylum.
Who is a Human Rights defender
Human rights defenders in exile are fighting for social justice, dignity, protection, and universal rights, demanding for freedom to assemble and organize.
Human rights defenders are defined by what they do, not by who they are. The right to defend human rights, as set out in the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, derives from human rights set forth in binding international treaties and other regional instruments, such as OSCE commitments. It is also a requirement for realising other rights, for example freedom of expression and assembly and the right to information.
According to the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, a human rights defender:
- acts independently or in association with others to protect, implement and promote human rights at the national and international levels, regardless of their profession or other status.
- promotes and protects human rights for all, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, without distinction of any kind.
- acts to address any human right (or rights) on behalf of individuals or groups; and
- acts peacefully in protecting and promoting human rights.
For further information, go to – https://ennhri.org/human-rights-defenders/who-are-they/#top
Asylum has lost its qualities and protective purpose towards the rights of genuine asylum seekers.
Abolish or Classify
Asylum
Now
We exist because of them, we are indebted to their strong moral and financial support, and their courage to take risks to believe in us!
