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“No Chil­dren on the Streets”: A First Fami­ly Finds Refuge in the Bégui­nage Church At the Bégui­nage Church, a first fami­ly found refuge last night. The fami­ly had alrea­dy been gran­ted refu­gee sta­tus in ano­ther Euro­pean Union coun­try. Due to recent mea­sures, such fami­lies are no lon­ger entit­led to accom­mo­da­tion in Bel­gium.This shel­ter ini­tia­tive is part of […]

Cold Wea­ther Plan : Concern and Anger in the Sec­tor Fol­lo­wing the End of Sub­si­dies Our organizations[1] condemn the fede­ral government’s deci­sion to eli­mi­nate sub­si­dies for the Cold Wea­ther Plan. This pro­gram had allo­wed five major cities to imple­ment day and night mea­sures to accom­mo­date home­less people — men, women, and fami­lies with chil­dren — bet­ween Novem­ber and March. Action In […]

Press release 01/10/2025 Today, seven orga­ni­za­tions, inclu­ding huma­ni­ta­rian groups, are publi­shing the fifth edi­tion of their Bel­gian report on the “non-recep­­­tion” poli­cy and its harm­ful conse­quences for asy­lum see­kers in Bel­gium. The report high­lights how Belgium’s unlaw­ful poli­cy of refu­sing recep­tion to asy­lum see­kers has ente­red a new and alar­ming phase in 2025, with recent government […]

The Plat­form Citi­zen Bel­Re­fu­gees, born of a great momen­tum as a volun­teer in 2015 to respond to the cri­sis of the home, today begins a new page of its his­to­ry. Its Board of direc­tors would be rene­wed, with the arri­val of new pro­files incur­red and the appoint­ment of a new duo to its co-chair : Ber­nard Of Your and Françoise […]

March 21, 2025, the Brus­sels police eva­cua­ted a make­shift camp along the Hub Huma­ni­ta­rian, dis­lod­ging bet­ween 15 and 20 people and des­troying some of their per­so­nal effects. In a context of total satu­ra­tion of the devices, emer­gen­cy accom­mo­da­tion, mem­bers of the consor­tium Hub Huma­ni­ta­rian point to the ope­ra­tion of dis­per­sion and invi­si­bi­li­sa­tion of pre­ca­rious­ness. The huma­ni­ta­rian call […]

Doc­tors Without Bor­ders, Méde­cins du Monde, Vluch­te­lin­gen­werk Vlaan­de­ren, the WAX, Bel­Re­fu­gees, Cari­tas Inter­na­tio­nal and the Hub Huma­ni­ta­rian publi­shed the fourth edi­tion of their ‘State of play’ on the poli­cy of non-host and its nega­tive impacts on the applicant·euses asy­lum in Bel­gium. The report covers theyear 2024 , and reveals that the applicant·euses d- see­kers (most­ly […]