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Brussels, Jul 19 (EFE).- After two months of hunger strike, some undocumented immigrants took another step in their protest action Monday and stopped drinking to express their "discontent" with the management of the crisis by the Belgian Government, although their spokesmen did not specify the exact number of protesters. (Camera: LEO RODRÍGUEZ).B-ROLL OF THE STRIKE STAGED BY UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANT WORKERS IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.SOUND BITES: ONE OF THE PROTESTERS. TRANSLATIONS:- We are not the ones who decide, it is the will of some strikers who have seen that the Government does not advance a step towards a resolution proposal to resolve the problem. They are desperate and devastated by their deafness and by the stubbornness of our Government. That's why they decided by their own free will to go on a thirst strike so that things can get going, so that they are heard more and more. To express their discontent, their concern and their despair for our Government.- Yesterday there were 12 hospitalized cases from the morning until 5 in the afternoon. In the ULB, there were four and three in the VUB, including one case of kidney failure as a consequence of the thirst strike.
Brussels, Jul 22 (EFE).- (Camera: Leo Rodríguez). A “neutral zone” has been abilitated by the Belgian government to individually review claims to residence permits by about 400 undocumented migrants, after reaching a tentative deal Wednesday that ended a month-long hunger strike. FOOTAGE OF THE STRIKE IN BRUSSELS. SOUNDBITES OF:Ahmed, spokesperson for immigrants, in french:1.- The Secretary of State has given elements of clarification that can give the strikers the possibility of evaluating their durable settlement, their integration, and family reunification.2.- On the one hand we feel relieved since disastrous damages have been avoided that can harm the state of health and even people's lives, on the other hand, we are not entirely satisfied because the minimum has been obtained and not everything we wanted.3.- We hope that the Secretary of State respects its commitments and that it treats the files well, otherwise the strikers will be forced to start over. They will go on a hunger strike and perhaps thirst.4.- As it was decided yesterday to suspend the hunger strike in the first place, the strikers drink soup until their bodies get used to eating so as not to damage our stomachs, our digestive systems, or our intestines. Eating the main dish directly can harm your health.Geert Verbauwhede, Director General of the Government Immigration Office, in english.
Brussels, Jul 8 (EFE) .- (Camera: Leo Rodríguez) The United Nation's special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, visited a central church in Brussels on Thursday, where some two hundred undocumented immigrants add up to almost 50 days on hunger strike to demand their regularization and whose health, in many cases, is a concern. FOOTAGE OF THE CHURCH AND THE MIGRANTS.SOUNDBITES OF OLIVIER DE SCHUTTER (UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON EXTREME POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS-QUOTES IN ENGLISH), AHMED (UNION OF IMMIGRANTS UNDOCUMENTED BY REGULARIZATION), MOHAMED (OCCUPANT AND STRIKER) AND FATHER DANIEL (QUOTES IN ENGLISH).Translation:Ahmed:2.- The state of the strikers is dire, regrettable and macabre. Most of them have signs of weakening, post-traumatic symptoms, symptoms of seizures, of kidney infections. There are even those who suffered heart attacks. The situation is deplorable.3.- It stubbornly clings to a case by case, which is not an encouraging sign because case by case is not based on a legal framework and is not based on fair, objective and permanent criteria. So it reflects the arbitrariness of the evaluation, the arbitrariness of the responses and the arbitrariness of the handling of cases.Mohamed:4.- There were many heart attacks, kidney infections, loss of weight of muscle mass over 15 per cent that was reported and seen by a Red Cross doctor ... It is becoming something worrying and alarming.5.- The undocumented person has always put health and body at risk because it is the only tool and it is his only survival tool. Our body was already weakened before starting this hunger strike.6.- Given the state of health of the strikers, of course there is concern, of course. It is degrading day after day. We hope that there will be a solution in the next few days and that we will not experience a drama since that is not the objective.
New York (United States), Jul 16 (EFE / EPA) .- Nearly a hundred undocumented immigrants, mostly of Latin American origin, Thursday in New York to demand aid for undocumented workers.(CAMERA: Alba Vigaray)
Employees of Total and Esso continue their strike in front of the Esso site in Fos-sur-Mer at the call of the CGT union, while almost a third of the petrol stations in France are affected by shortages due to the blockade of refineries. IMAGES
Brussels (Belgium), Jul 13 (EFE) .- (Camera: Leo Rodríguez) The Union of the Paperless for Regularization, in charge of coordinating the fight for the regularization of immigrants in Belgium and which currently occupies three establishments with protesters in hunger strike, received this Tuesday notification of the civic pride award, awarded by the international solidarity organization Foro Cívico Europeo.FOOTAGE OF THE PAPERLESS IN BRUSSELS AND SOUNDBITES FROM PIETRO BARTOLO, EURO DEPUTY, AND JAN ROBERT SUESSER, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN CIVIC FORUM. TRANSLATION"I hope that the Belgian Government can amend its path and give an answer to these people, who have not come to commit crimes or to do harm." "It is not a question of an award", but of "recognizing the resistance of these people and their ability to protest against a situation of great social difficulty." SUESSER "There is this struggle and this government that believes itself strong because it does not hear or listen to the demand that they are making."
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