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Jan 4, 2019 · Key asylum statistics: In 2023, a total of 35,507 persons applied for international protection in Belgium with an average of 2,959 applications per month – a decrease of 3.2% compared to 2022. 34,525 applications were registered on the Belgian territory (at the registration centre Pacheco in Brussels), 332 at the border and 650 in detention ...
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The Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and...
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The Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless persons (CGRS) publishes monthly statistical reports, providing information on asylum applicants and first-instance decisions.
- Worrying Health Situation
- Hundreds Forced to Sleep Outside
- Applicants For International Protection
- Belgian State Condemned
A few meters away from the asylum application centre, the association Médecins Sans Frontières has set up mobile clinics, the same that it uses in war zones. “There is a health situation that’s quite worrying," says David Vogel, Advocacy Officer for Médecins Sans Frontières. "There is an epidemic of scabies which is hard to control in Brussels sinc...
Every evening, aid workers multiply rounds across the city to help the hundreds of people forced to sleep outside. The crisis is such that even Ukrainian refugees, who have a special status in Belgium as elsewhere in Europe, are more and more numerous to be left out in the cold. Like these women, whom we meet at the Gare du Midi, in the heart of Br...
The aid workers continue their round, this time among applicants for international protection. As here, at the foot of one of the accommodation centres of the agency in charge of asylum seekers. The Belgian Red Cross teams are also on the ground. "We have set up additional rounds, as there are more needs," says Morgane Senden from the Belgium Red C...
In desperation, groups of migrants have occupied empty buildings. One squat in a huge building that went from about 200 people to more than 600 in the space of a few days. Marie Doutrepont represents several of the occupants of the squat, threatened with eviction, within a collective of lawyers who are tirelessly mobilizing for international protec...
- Valérie Gauriat
From the early days of independence and the threat of The Netherlands or France, to two World Wars and the Independence of Congo, Belgians have been on the run themselves, for various reasons, as refugees.
Nov 24, 2022 · Belgium's asylum system falling apart at the seams as refugees struggle to find shelter. Every night in Brussels, aid workers are doing more and more rounds to help increasingly high numbers...
- Valérie Gauriat
Nov 17, 2022 · Belgium is facing a major refugee crisis as its asylum system struggles to cope with the sheer volume of refugees applying for shelter.
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In 2021, Belgium counted 25,971 asylum applications, most of which were submitted by people from Afghanistan, Syria and Palestine. In the same year, 10,093 people were recognised as refugees or received subsidiary protection.
