Brussels, Dec 21 (AP) Europe’s high human rights physique is urging Belgian authorities to offer higher help to asylum-seekers after a whole bunch of individuals slept on Brussels streets in freezing temperature in current weeks.

The Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, Dunja Mijatovic, wrote in a letter to Belgium’s state secretary for asylum and migration revealed on Wednesday {that a} lack of accessible spots in reception services was damaging asylum-seekers’ rights to well being and different primary wants.

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Mijatovic mentioned Belgium couldn’t present lodging in October to greater than 1,500 asylum-seekers, together with households with youngsters and unaccompanied minors.

“In addition to a scarcity of lodging, individuals looking for worldwide safety in Belgium reportedly expertise additional difficulties attributable to restricted capability to register their functions for asylum and to course of them in a well timed method,” she said.

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In November, the European Court of Human Rights urged Belgium to provide assistance to 148 asylum-seekers left without accommodation.

According to Belgian authorities, the country saw a “significant increase of asylum-seekers” this yr. A authorities company mentioned that along with 62,000 Ukrainian refugees who fled Russia’s warfare of their nation, 33,340 different individuals had filed asylum functions in Belgium by the tip of November.

In her response to Mijatovic, Belgian Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor agreed that the Belgian asylum system faces structural issues however defended the measures put in place to deal with the lodging scarcity.

Belgium says it has 33,000 locations for asylum-seekers, probably the most within the nation’s historical past, together with “over 7,000 further locations created within the final yr.”

De Moor said she was doing her best to make sure people “have a roof over their head,” making a precedence of instances involving minors and susceptible individuals.

She mentioned not all the courtroom’s selections could possibly be instantly enforced due to a “sheer materials impossibility,” and “by no means a political decision.”

Mijatovic’s criticism got here simply months after she urged Belgium’s neighbour, the Netherlands, to drastically enhance reception situations for asylum-seekers. (AP)

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