Reception Crises: Activists Take Action as Thousands Remain Without Housing in Belgium, Police Violence and Protests in Dutch Emergency Shelters, Irish High Court Judgment Finds Failure to Provide Accommodation in Breach of EU Law
As more than 3,000 asylum seekers remain without housing in Belgium, activists take over abandoned building to host 95 asylum seekers. Amnesty denounces police violence as tensions worsen in Dutch emergency shelters. ECRE member, Irish Refugee Council “welcomes...
Belgium: Government Reception Plan with Main Focus on Restrictions and Return as Asylum Seekers and Activists Take Matters into Their Own Hands
As the reception crisis continues, the government has launched a plan with a main focus on restrictions. Meanwhile, asylum seekers and activists have taken matters into their own hands occupying a building set to house the National Crisis Center. The ongoing reception...
Belgium: Reception Crisis Continues and Convictions of Authorities Mount, NGOs Unimpressed with Evacuation of Unsafe Squat Leaving Many in the Street
As the reception crisis continue Belgian authorities continue to ignore convictions over failures to provide accommodation. The evacuation of the unsafe and unhygienic squat in Paleizenstraat leaves NGOs unimpressed as thousands of asylum seekers remain in the street....