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Stop evicting illegal families, Holland toldMonday 15 March 2010 The Netherlands is continuing to break EU conventions by leaving families with children whose requests for asylum have been rejected to fend for themselves on the streets, the Volkskrant reports on Monday. At the end of last month, the European Committee on Social Rights said the Netherlands must stop evicting families with young children from asylum seekers centres because this conflicted with the European social charter and other human rights legislation. The charter guarantees the rights of children to protection and a roof over their heads, whatever their legal status. The complaint against the Netherlands was brought by the Defence for Children lobby group in 2008. The Volkskrant says several hundred families with children are evicted from refugee centres every year. However, the Netherlands is not planning to amend its rules until it has discussed the issue with the Council of Europe, but that meeting will not take place for several months, the paper says. Defence for Children lawyer Carla van Os told the paper the Netherlands is dragging its feet unnecessarily. 'The conclusion is very clear. You cannot dump children on the street. The ruling is binding and the rest of the Council of Europe has nothing to say about the matter,' Van Os said. The justice ministry says it cannot change the current situation immediately for 'procedural reasons', and lawyers are now working to establish jurisprudence, the paper says. For example, lawyer Pim Fischer is currently dealing with two families left on Emmen station and told to find their way home. Junior justice minister Nebahat Albayrak has also ordered local councils to close their emergency accommodation for failed asylum seeker families. © DutchNews.nl
Well, this is one very easy proceedure to change - like overnight! Could easily have done it while arguing about it! Social Services staff at just about every Town Hall, along the border, in Belgium, over a year ago (when my Bank cards weirdly stopped working in Holland but worked fine in Germany and Belgium !!!!) told me what Holland is doing to not just Asylum Seekers but to other EU Citizens and even Dutch Citizens. They said the People of Belgium, being a much more decent people, have to pick-up the cost of housing and health care for those left to fend for themselves and die on the streets by the Dutch. I have been told by representatives of Belgium and Spain that they are fed-up with paying the Social and Health Care costs for Dutch Nationals forced to flee Holland by Government Policies ... they say that the Dutch Government does not reciprocate for their citizens ... or any other EU citizens. By Gerard | March 15, 2010 2:52 PM Yet talk to any of my neighbors and colleagues and they will say how we Dutch are liberal, tolerant, and modest. We have become a nation of spoiled, egocentral, hypocritical, citizens. Pathetic! By Daan | March 15, 2010 3:40 PM I agree that we should not put them on the streets. We should give them a temporary diplomatic passport & a one-way first-class ticket to the EU country of their choice, preferably the UK! In the UK they can work and better themselves, instead of being forced to live as parasites in NL. By Vogon Poet | March 15, 2010 4:15 PM And things won't get better if Mr Wilders has anything to crumble in the milk, Gerard... By Bill | March 15, 2010 4:20 PM Anybody managed to find this story in the Dutch state media? It's (maybe not surprisingly) missing from the main dutch-language news-sites.. The Netherlands has an atrocious record on children's human rights. Approximately 565,000 children in the Netherlands are currently denied the right to see half of their family by the legal system and the kinder"bescherming". In direct contravention of EU and UN human rights law. The reluctance of the government to actually sort out this massive problem is huge. By Andy | March 15, 2010 4:27 PM I'm beginning to think it's time to move from this rich, but increasingly inhuman little country.Treating families from ANYWHERE this way is indefensible.No argument possible. End of story. By Edward Ka-Spel | March 15, 2010 5:26 PM Hey I have a great idea, with the Police state here where you register with all sorts of agencies yet drugs and prostitution are legal, why not get the aliens to wear a symbol, then we can see them in the street ? Why not have your town hall Police wear black shirts... Where have I seen this before???? Wake up Holland, this time you can stop it!!!! By jd | March 15, 2010 6:07 PM Roger Von Deylen: I disagree... this is exactly how rich, developed nations behave. It's unfortunate but true. What is unique here, is that the Netherlands pretends to be a champion of human-rights and has the dubious position of hosting the World Court where human-rights violators are tried and convicted. What a bizarre contradiction. By Buzzer | March 15, 2010 6:32 PM Typical. 'Nothing can be done, for procedural reasons'. By Shane | March 15, 2010 9:44 PM "What?? Dutch ministers saying all that stuff to snob humanity? And yet Dutch sons and daughters are sent to bleed and die for the same humanity in Afgannistan. What a democracy and what the rights of children? Thank you Defence for Children lobby group. Netherlands you are eroding the face of the Dutch - a country highly respected in international circles as bastion of refugee through the ages. Don't be Wilderised! Friends from outside are asking me questions about all these and all I can say to them is that, "I do not know anymore. By TONIART | March 15, 2010 10:36 PM I say good on Holland for bringing on this stand. People being rejected will bring their problems with them and then it will be Holland's problem. Like some British people tell me of the problems they have in the U.K you need to take a hard stand. By Ronald Martens | March 15, 2010 11:00 PM Simple solution, disband the EU and let induvidual countries make their own decisions. Why are EU countrys being forced to accept so many asylum seekers anyways. Japan is a very wealthy industrial nation, they don't accept any asylum seekers. Why should the Europeans? By james | March 16, 2010 1:49 AM So if this is Dutch policy and everyone knows about it, why do asylum seekers, refugees, etc., still come to The Netherlands? The Netherlands isn't exactly the easiest place to get to ... so if they have a choice, why not choose another State? By Allen | March 16, 2010 2:02 AM Some of you are forgetting just how little this country is. We can´t allow everyone to move here, we have no more room! Why doesn´t Canada or USA, or Russia give us some relief? They have lots of land! By SandraV | March 16, 2010 8:43 AM Ronald: Holland has problems because of how it TREATS its immigrants not BECAUSE of the immigrants. James: These individual countries joined the EU by choice and knew they would be involved in helping people fleeing from their own countries. no one is being forced to do anything. Allen: Another state? u mean country right? nowhere is easy for a refugee to get too, but seeing as the netherlands promotes itself as a tolerant place, (like america)why wouldnt they come here. its not till they get here they realise that the people here consider them to be trash. By Jennifer | March 16, 2010 9:44 AM The problem here is that if somebody reaches illegaly EU territory. How do you send him back? if he comes from somalia, afghanistan or places of war? By kos | March 16, 2010 11:04 AM It is clear that the only solution in the long run is to make fewer children. The idiotic multiplication and adding more people to this already hungry and suffering over crowded world must stop. When men do their vasectomy and women use a contraceptive, after they made one child, the world will be better in one generation, and great after two generations. If you make more kids, you are to blame for the suffering. By Alex Baldal | March 16, 2010 1:11 PM Alex Baldal, VERY GOOD IDEA! By SandraV. | March 17, 2010 6:14 AM The problem here is not about 'illegal families'. By the way, what is an 'illegal' family? A family that breaks the rules? By zenplus | March 18, 2010 12:22 PM It seems that NL is not in EU. The procedures, rules and regulations regarding family reunification, marriage, children are completely inhumane and pathetic and reflex our inner hatred for other humanbeings on our soil. In the long-run, it will bring catastropic consequences for our international image and economy By jerry | March 19, 2010 4:33 PM Why are you people shocked? Are you forgetting that it was the Dutch who sold and shipped slaves to the US? Are you forgetting that this is the country who authored apartheid in South Africa? Here is the Meriam-Webster definition: Main Entry: apart·heid Afrikaans is a bastardised form of Dutch spoken in South Africa. It's a spin-off of the Dutch spoken by the people who brough slavery and tyranny to South Africa - the people we know as The Dutch. I find it laughable that people who have a history of slavery tout themselves as a free and open people. Take a look at the prostitution industry and you'll see that there's still legalized slavery in NL. They should advertise that as long as you're a pasty-white caucasian you're welcome here and will be treated somewhat hunan. Otherwise, we will tell we like you, and we do, but only because you can provide a service for us at a very low or no wage. By Tim Lee | April 12, 2010 2:38 PM
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Treating children this way is the action of a third world country; not the action of a developed, wealthy nation such as The Netherlands.
By Roger Von Deylen | March 15, 2010 11:26 AM