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Amnesty International, the Human Rights League or Médecins sans Frontières and 89 other associations or NGOs seized this Thursday seven UN special rapporteurs so that the French government "better include" the poorest in the management of coronavirus. Among the United Nations rapporteurs, we find those in charge of poverty and migrant issues.
"This referral shows that people living on the streets, in squats or slums do not fully benefit from the Covid-19 prevention measures," explain the 92 associations, signatory NGOs and collectives, including Amnesty International, the Human Rights League or Médecins sans Frontières.
By also questioning the special rapporteurs responsible for health, housing or access to food and water, the organizations are reporting the "worrying situation" on these themes in several cities in France "because of the pandemic ".
No asylum request possible, therefore no access to protection
If these rapporteurs have no coercive power, it is a question for these organizations of "alerting", so that these "neutral people position themselves on what is happening in France and ask the government to better include all populations" in the measures put in place to fight against the coronavirus, such as containment, explains to AFP Sophie Pouget, president of the association Committe for Refugee Relief, on the initiative of this call.
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In addition to the primary questions of health and food, the organizations also underline "the fact that people in asylum situations are today in the concrete impossibility of filing their request, and therefore of accessing any protection ”.
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