La législation maltaise sur l'accès aux soins des sans-papiers et des demandeurs d'asile.

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MSF reports on its activities in the Mediterranean
06/07/2009

On Monday 6 July 2009, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released a report entitled ‘Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers: Vulnerable people at Europe’s doorstep’. MSF reports on its activities in Italy, Greece, Malta, and Morocco.

JLS Commissioner visits Malta
01/03/2009

On 13 March, Jacques Barrot, JLS Commissioner and Vice-President of the European Commission, participated in a fact-finding mission concerning detention conditions of immigrants on the island of Lampedusa. Visibly shocked by the critical state of the island's detention system, the Commissioner stressed the need to improve the conditions prevailing in the detention centres. "Particular attention should be paid to access to health care for vulnerable groups", he said. He also pledged to make more funds available to Malta on top of the money already allocated, especially in order to improve the centres. Finally, he emphasized that the creation of the European Asylum Support Office could lead to the setting up of a pilot programme to transfer asylum seekers from Malta to other EU Member States, hopefully by 2010. '

UN working group on arbitrary detention concludes visit to Malta
01/03/2009

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded a visit to Malta, which has been organized, between 19 and 23 January 2009 at the invitation of the Maltese government.

The Group said the length of time illegal migrants are detained is not "in line with international human rights law". Although Malta applies fast-track procedures in the case of vulnerable groups (families with children, unaccompanied minors, pregnant women and breast-feeding mothers, and people with disabilities, serious or chronic physical or mental health problems), according to the Government it may still take up to 3 months to release these people from the detention centres. Furthermore, those who are considered a health risk must stay in detention.

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