About us

Flight and migration occur despite and contrary all state regulations and prevention attempts. However nobody flees voluntarily. People leave their countries of origin due to particular life situations in which they are acutely threatened and need protection and support.

However since the repulsion of refugees usually takes precedence over this protection, committed individuals, initiatives and organisations in the refugee solidarity in Bavaria initiated the Bavarian Refugee Council as a non-partisan and supra-regional umbrella organisation in 1986

As a human rights organisation, we agitate for the rights of refugees and migrants. We are firmly convinced that the enforcement of human rights must have precedence over a policy of refugee repulsion. We are struggling for a genuine right of residence for all refugees. We  strictly oppose deportations. The return of refugees can only occur as a free and self-determined act. We oppose the exclusion and isolation of refugees through accommodation in refugee camps and demand equal rights for all.

We offer advisory services, information and when necessary legal assistance to refugees, committed groups and individual persons. Through publicity work, we try to contribute to an increase in the societal acceptance of refugees and migrants. At the point where individual negotiation reaches its limit, we bewail the inhumane living conditions employing a wide variety of ways, in order to achieve structural improvements for refugees. Our areas of work are specifically.