« Exil, Exit : la vida de los inmigrantes sin permiso de residencia en Europa » : la exposición de Médicos del Mundo

PICUM, Plataforma para la Cooperación Internacional sobre Inmigrantes En situación irregular, organizó el último congreso de su proyecto sobre “Los niños en situación irregular en Europa: Víctimas Invisibles de las Restricciones a la Inmigración” en Bruselas del 22 al 23 de enero de 2009.

Press release - Italy allows doctors to denounce their patients if they are undocumented migrants.

For Medicos del Mundo, access to healthcare is the fundamental right of everyone living in a State, regardless of their administrative situation. The organization considers such a decision a withdrawal of this fundamental right and notes that it is a growing trend in other European Union countries, with Greece and Germany having already put similar measures in place. The result is that public authorities are legally obliged to denounce undocumented migrants.

The European Health Management Association will organize their policy seminar, "Barrier to Healtcare Services for Migrants" the 29 May 2009 in Brussels.

Press release - Medicos del Mundo happily greets the will to revise the reform’s project of the law regarding the foreign citizen status specifically regarding the legal punishment of individuals and associations helping undocumented migrants in detention centers. At the same time we are witnessing the withdrawal of Berlusconi’s government proposal that argued that medical employees could denounce undocumented migrants to the police. The pressure of Civil Society, NGOs and professionals in Italy, Spain and throughout Europe was decisive for the revision of those initiatives.

What commitments have taken candidates for European elections on the health of undocumented migrants in Europe?

Este seminario es el segundo de un grupo de tres organizados como consecuencia del estudio recientemente publicado “Calidad e Igualdad en el Acceso a los Servicios de Asistencia Sanitaria” (HealthQUEST).

Le réseau HUMA recherche un stagiaire pour partir à Stockholm, au sein de Médecins du Monde Suède, afin de renforcer la collaboration avec cette délégation de MdM.

Le départ se fera en novembre après une formation d'un mois à Paris.

La red HUMA est actualmente en bùsquada de un Consultor para llevar a cabo la evaluacion de su proyecto europeo de incidencia sobre el acceso a la asistencia sanitaria de inmigrantes sin papeles y demandantes de asilo.

Fecha límite para la aplicación: 15/09/09

A new law was passed by the Tuscan authorities in July which introduces a new, rights-based approach to undocumented migrants in the region, granting free access to health care.

From 15 July, failed asylum seekers will be entitled to the same health services as someone ordinarily resident in the UK.