OUR WORK
The Crisis Response Association provides international security support to individuals whose life or health is in danger abroad and who do not receive sufficient support elsewhere. Our work is based on theme-specific programs, in which we implement individually planned security operations.
Our operations are individual-oriented and individually planned entities, which are launched on the basis of our own analysis work, on our international co-operation, and on the requests received directly from the persons in need.
Our work is focused on maintaining the life and health of civilians in demanding international threat situations that include violence, deprivation of liberty, persecution, killing, enslavement, human trafficking, torture, sexual violence or other comparable acts or events.
KAVALA
The program of Dissapearing Children (KAVALA) is a program launched by the Crisis Response Association in 2022. The goal of the program is to prevent and interrupt the life- and health-threatening disciplinary travels of the Finnish children and youths with immigrant backround.
The phenomenon commonly known as “disappearing children” is part of an international phenomenon in which children and young people with immigrant backgrounds are taken abroad to life- and health-threatening conditions in order to change their identity and behavior. The root cause of the phenomenon is the need of some immigrant parents to modify their children’s unwanted behavior and identity in a direction that the parents feel right.
The youths are mostly sent to relatives or to boarding schools established for disciplinary purposes. Many of these boarding schools are private-prisons-like centers, in which the thinking, identity and behavior of the youths are shaped by violent methods.
The youths on disciplinary travels have said that during their trips they have faced restrictions on movement and communication, shackling, beatings, threats with weapons, malnutrition, genital mutilation, forced marriages and rapes.
You can read more about the Finnish phenomenon through the following link (PDF in Finnish): Kavala-raportti 2024
The Kavala program provides humanitarian security support to youths who have been subjected to life- and health-threatening disciplinary travels. The goal of the program is to prevent the life- and health-threatening travels and support the repatriation of the youths back to Finland. The program is implemented together with the Finnish authorities. The main focus of the program is currently on disciplinary travels to Middle East and East Africa.
DO YOU NEED SUPPORT?
If you have been sent to a disciplinary trip or if you suspect that you will be sent to one, you can contact us. You can also contact us if you suspect or know someone else is sent on disiplinary trip or under the threat of it. We will handle your matter confidentially and we will not share your information to third parties without your premission.
ASTALO
The program of evacuation flights for Afghans who worked for Finns in Afghanistan (ASTALO) was a program launched by the Crisis Response Association in 2021. The goal of the program was to support the life and health of Afghans who worked for Finns in Afghanistan and needed support to reach their evacuation flights during the international evacuation operation.
The program was launched after the withdrawal of the Western military coalition from Afghanistan had led to the fall of the Afghan government and the of a new ruling group. After the fall of the regime, many Afghans who worked for foreign countries and organizations were in danger of life and health due to their previous work. To solve the threat, the international community evacuated its citizens and the Afghans who worked for them abroad through the Kabul airport.
You can read more about the events through the following link (Wikipedia): Kabul Airlift 2021
The Astalo program provided humanitarian security support to Afghans who were working for Finns and had difficulties to reach their evacuation flights in Kabul airport. The supported persons were in acute danger of arrest, imprisonment and torture because of the work they did for Finns. During the program, we supported the persons to survive the current crisis and conflict circumstances and to reach the evacuation flight of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.
OUR WORK
The Crisis Response Association provides international security support to individuals whose life or health is in danger abroad and who do not receive sufficient support elsewhere. Our work is based on theme-specific programs, in which we implement individually planned security operations.
Our operations are individual-oriented and individually planned entities, which are launched on the basis of our own analysis work, on our international co-operation, and on the requests received directly from the persons in need.
Our work is focused on maintaining the life and health of civilians in demanding international threat situations that include violence, deprivation of liberty, persecution, killing, enslavement, human trafficking, torture, sexual violence or other comparable acts or events.
KAVALA
The program of Dissapearing Children (KAVALA) is a program launched by the Crisis Response Association in 2022. The goal of the program is to prevent and interrupt the life- and health-threatening disciplinary travels of the Finnish children and youths with immigrant backround.
The phenomenon commonly known as “disappearing children” is part of an international phenomenon in which children and young people with immigrant backgrounds are taken abroad to life- and health-threatening conditions in order to change their identity and behavior. The root cause of the phenomenon is the need of some immigrant parents to modify their children’s unwanted behavior and identity in a direction that the parents feel right.
The youths are mostly sent to relatives or to boarding schools established for disciplinary purposes. Many of these boarding schools are private-prisons-like centers, in which the thinking, identity and behavior of the youths are shaped by violent methods.
The youths on disciplinary travels have said that during their trips they have faced restrictions on movement and communication, shackling, beatings, threats with weapons, malnutrition, genital mutilation, forced marriages and rapes.
You can read more about the Finnish phenomenon through the following link (PDF in Finnish): Kavala-raportti 2024
The Kavala program provides humanitarian security support to youths who have been subjected to life- and health-threatening disciplinary travels. The goal of the program is to prevent the life- and health-threatening travels and support the repatriation of the youths back to Finland. The program is implemented together with the Finnish authorities. The main focus of the program is currently on disciplinary travels to Middle East and East Africa.
DO YOU NEED SUPPORT?
If you have been sent to a disciplinary trip or if you suspect that you will be sent to one, you can contact us. You can also contact us if you suspect or know someone else is sent on disiplinary trip or under the threat of it. We will handle your matter confidentially and we will not share your information to third parties without your premission.
ASTALO
The program of evacuation flights for Afghans who worked for Finns in Afghanistan (ASTALO) was a program launched by the Crisis Response Association in 2021. The goal of the program was to support the life and health of Afghans who worked for Finns in Afghanistan and needed support to reach their evacuation flights during the international evacuation operation.
The program was launched after the withdrawal of the Western military coalition from Afghanistan had led to the fall of the Afghan government and the of a new ruling group. After the fall of the regime, many Afghans who worked for foreign countries and organizations were in danger of life and health due to their previous work. To solve the threat, the international community evacuated its citizens and the Afghans who worked for them abroad through the Kabul airport.
You can read more about the events through the following link (Wikipedia): Kabul Airlift 2021
The Astalo program provided humanitarian security support to Afghans who were working for Finns and had difficulties to reach their evacuation flights in Kabul airport. The supported persons were in acute danger of arrest, imprisonment and torture because of the work they did for Finns. During the program, we supported the persons to survive the current crisis and conflict circumstances and to reach the evacuation flight of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.