La législation suédoise sur l'accès aux soins des sans-papiers et des demandeurs d'asile.
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Sweden to build reception facilities for children returned to Afghanistan
01/03/2010
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'
Sweden's National Assembly of Health Professionals position on health care for undocumented migrants
01/05/2009
Sweden's National Assembly of Health Professionals, the Vårdförbundet, issued a message to the Swedish Minister of State stating its opposition to the government's policy of blocking access to health care for undocumented migrants.
The medical professionals state that denying healthcare contravenes the codes of professional ethics that apply to Sweden's midwives, biomedical scientists, radiographers and nurses who have pledged to continue complying with the principle of human dignity and providing healthcare on equal terms and on needs. These medical professionals have vowed that the right to health, as guaranteed in international conventions, will always take precedence over national laws and regulations that contravene the principles. The Vårdförbundet's National Assembly strongly urged all parties in the Swedish Parliament to assume their responsibility so that people without papers and those in hiding throughout Sweden may gain access to health care on the same terms as the rest of the population.
Source: www.vardforbundet.se
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