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BELGIUM

Residence permit for medical reasons

The ‘Foreigners Office’, whenever it handles ‘residence permit for medical reasons’ claims has to take into consideration the risk of interruption of continuity of care in Belgium, says the Appeals Council for foreigners disputes in a recent judgment.

Source: VMC medical newsletter, issue 13.

 

 

 

GREECE

EU asylum policy flaws leave refugees trapped in Greece

Individuals returned to Greece under the Dublin Regulation are facing multiple violations of their human rights. “The Dublin II trap – Transfers of asylum-seekers to Greece” demonstrates the failure of the Greek authorities to provide a fair asylum procedure. The insufficient provision of accommodation and inadequate access to health care exacerbate the precariousness of asylum seekers’ situation even further.

Sources:

- ECRE Weekly Bulletin 26 March 2010

- Amnesty International, 'Flaws in EU's asylum policy leave refugees trapped in Greece without protection'

 

 

SWEDEN

Sweden to build reception facilities for children returned to Afghanistan

The Swedish government has announced plans to build specially-designed care centres in Afghanistan where unaccompanied children seeking asylum in Sweden can be returned to. The Swedish Migration Minister insisted that: “The most important thing is to enable the child to be reunited with his parents. If the only basis for a child to stay in Sweden is because they are alone, then it is better that they live in their home country while a search is conducted for their parents”. Sweden is not the only country to announce such plans in response to an increase in the number of unaccompanied children seeking asylum. The Danish government has recently made public similar plans while the Netherlands has been funding reception facilities in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo for several years now.

Sources:

- ECRE Weekly Bulletin 26 March 2010

- The Local, ‘Sweden plans Afghanistan orphanages'

 

FRANCE

‘The right to health violated in Mayotte’

The High authority to fight discrimination and promote equality (HALDE) denounces discriminations and important breaches to the right to health in Mayotte. It concludes that claims of discriminations of undocumented migrants and their children, or of unaccompanied children, when accessing health care, are well-founded. It asks the authorities to put ‘State medical aid’ or an equivalent medical coverage in place in Mayotte and also, considering the obvious violation of provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Children (UNCRC), that children of undocumented migrants and unaccompanied children can be directly affiliated to social security.

Source: migrants outre-mer

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