CWI Cyprus is part of the Committee for a Workers International.

In 2006, CWI members in Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

 organised an international solidarity campaign with Kurdish refugees who were to be deported to back to Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

 where they would likely be in great danger. Protest

Protest

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s were staged in Sweden

Sweden

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, Belgium

Belgium

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, the UK, Ireland

Ireland

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, Greece

Greece

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 and Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. The campaign successfully won the right to asylum or to work permits for all 107 refugees.