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Defend rights to freedom, protection, and justice for asylum seekers by confronting racial inequity, authoritarianism, and injustice and organizing abuse reporting, legal aid, advocacy, campaigns, and labor organizing.
organization overview
Global Asylum Seeker Human Rights Defenders Committee (GASHCD) challenges manipulation of the global asylum system, anti-Black racism, and neo-colonial servitude so asylum seekers can exercise their rights to freedom, protection, and justice.
GASHDC provides a private communication technology platform for human rights abuse reporting, legal aid efficacy, trauma treatment, public awareness campaigns, asylum law advocacy, and abuse documentation. GASHDC’s webpage, Asylum Voices, is a public venue to share firsthand stories of racial inequity and injustices experienced by asylum seekers. GASHDC steers the global union of asylum seeker workers and promotes union organizing at workplaces to build a strong global trade union movement.
Personal Bio
Leaving his family behind, Ali left his country where he faced persecution and grave torture as a human rights defender and writer. He sought asylum in Germany. Overwhelmed after emotional experiences of torture, he was engulfed in fear, anger, insecurity, and sadness. Despite all that he’d already gone through, he like many asylum seekers was met with protracted asylum procedures, racism, inequity, and poor living conditions which further exacerbated the situation. Deeply traumatized by the process and commotion in compacted shared asylum accommodation, he founded the Global Asylum Seeker Human Rights Defenders Committee to address critical asylum human rights abuses. He believes asylum is a global phenomenon that needs to address the human rights of people associated.
Ali is a grant writer, an advocate writer, and a writer of horror and crime for young adults. He is a Stiftung Kunstkerdorf Schoppingen Fellow.
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