HRW | UE : Garantir que les aides parviennent aux réfugiés en situation de handicap
▻https://asile.ch/2017/04/04/hrw-ue-garantir-aides-parviennent-aux-refugies-situation-de-handicap
Le Parlement européen devrait améliorer le suivi des fonds d’aide destinés aux réfugiés.
EU/Greece: Pressure to Minimize Numbers of Migrants Identified As ‘Vulnerable’
(Brussels, June 1, 2017) – People with disabilities and other at-risk groups go unidentified on the Greek islands as the European Union inappropriately presses Greek authorities and medical aid organizations to reduce the number of asylum seekers identified as “vulnerable,” Human Rights Watch said today. The EU, and the Greek government, now prefer to contain all asylum seekers on the Greek islands. Before the new policy, asylum seekers identified as “vulnerable” were allowed to be transferred to the mainland to have their cases handled there.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rgn91GY1Zw&feature=youtu.be
Migranti disabili: la doppia fragilità di cui nessuno si occupa
Sono pochi i dati sugli stranieri disabili nel nostro paese, mentre mancano completamente informazioni sui richiedenti asilo. La responsabilità dei media e le storie di questo “doppio svantaggio” al convegno “Disabili & Migranti: alla ricerca di un’integrazione possibile e necessaria”. Palazzotto: “Il nostro sistema di accoglienza non sa gestire la disabilità”
▻http://www.redattoresociale.it/Notiziario/Articolo/536539/Migranti-disabili-la-doppia-fragilita-di-cui-nessuno-si-occupa
On the Margins of the Margins: Refugees With Intellectual Disabilities
Refugees with intellectual disabilities are a largely forgotten and highly vulnerable group on the margins of the global displacement crisis. David Evangelista of the Special Olympics explains how the movement offers an alternative model for embracing refugees.
Forgotten and invisible? The legal protection of refugees with disabilities
Before starting my PhD in sociolinguistics at Macquarie University, I had the great privilege of being involved in a research project that was run out of Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney. The project explored how disability was conceptualised, acknowledged and accommodated in government and NGO programmes assisting refugees. Over three years, I assisted the project’s Chief Investigators, Professors Mary Crock and Ben Saul and Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum AO, travelling to Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Uganda, Jordan and Turkey. Our focus was on uncovering how (or whether) the newly created UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) influences responses to forced migration. We used this rights-based lens to then explore the lived reality for refugees and identify the challenges they faced in displacement, making recommendations for change and reflecting on how the very nature of being outside one’s country of citizenship can be a barrier in itself.
