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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.
Tapachula, Sep 13 (EFE) .- Activists and migrants began a hunger strike Monday in the municipality of Tapachula, in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, to demand that they be allowed to leave in a caravan to the north of the country. This act of protest is carried out to pressure authorities so that thousands of migrants in the south of the country can leave the following day after several caravans were dismantled in harsh operations in recent weeks . (Camera: JUAN MANUEL BLANCO)SHOT LIST: MIGRANTS AND ACTIVISTS ON HUNGER STRIKE IN TAPACHULA, MEXICO.
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 (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."
Brussels, Jul 2 (EFE) .- (Camera: Jorge Ocaña) The health conditions of some of the more than 400 undocumented migrants who have been on hunger strike in Belgium since May 23 have worsened.FOOTAGE OF THE ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH OF BRUSSELS.SOUNDBITE TRANSLATIONS:1.- Tarik, spokesperson for migrants.- The participants have lost between five, ten and fifteen kilos. They have low blood pressure problems, there have even been some cases of heart attacks.2.- Mehdi, refugeeWe are not looking for the American dream, but to be able to work and contribute legally. Now we contribute to the economy but invisibly.
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. "
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