Description
Added on the 22/07/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
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.
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."
Madrid, Mar 10 (EFE).- (Camera: Ángel Herrera) Some 100 trans people began a hunger strike on Wednesday to demand the referral to Congress of the Trans Law, blocked due to the "disagreements" in the Government.They defend the need for the law to be debated.FOOTAGE OF A GATHERING IN FRONT OF THE DEPUTIES CONGRESS.
Brussels, Oct 30 (EFE), (Camera: Leopoldo Rodríguez).- French European Parliament member Pierre Larrouturou started a hunger strike on Wednesday to call out the lack of funding for issues such as climate, health and research policies in Europe. SOUNDBITES OF FRENCH EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER Pierre Larrouturou:"The European system is somewhat strange. Generally, in each country, both in Spain and in France, the budget is made every year. Tax reforms can be made every year. At the European level, treaties are a bit strange, they are negotiated by a period of 7 years. If money for health is not included it is for 7 years, if money for research is not included it is for a period of 7 years, if there is no money for the fight against climate change it is for 7 years and in 7 years time it will be too late to act. "
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)
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
