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Nov 5, 2022 · The Balkan route taken by refugees into the EU has not been in the spotlight for some time. But it's still busy and getting busier. EU officials recorded mor...
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- 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
Sep 19, 2021 · Nearly 500 migrants and refugees held a two-month-long hunger strike in a bid to obtain the right to live and work legally in Belgium. But what was achieved and what comes next?
Nov 24, 2022 · Belgium's asylum system falling apart at the seams as refugees struggle to find shelter. ADVERTISEMENT. Every night in Brussels, aid workers are doing more and more rounds to help...
- Valérie Gauriat
Aug 30, 2020 · 30 August 2020. Gareth Evans. BBC News. Getty Images. Five years ago, more than one million people crossed into Europe. Many of them took huge risks and embarked on dangerous journeys in an...
Apr 21, 2023 · The updated AIDA Country Report on Belgium provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2022.
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Oct 29, 2022 · BRUSSELS - With Belgium's asylum system under severe pressure, some 200 asylum-seekers are squatting in a large empty building in the centre of Brussels that was originally being renovated for...
