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Nations Convention on the Rights of the that the children suffer from this lack in front of the centres every Sunday.
Child, ratified by Denmark in 1991, when of attention. To forcibly return families They have visibly made the politicians
dealing with refugee children. with children after several years of nervous since the idea of grandparents as
For example, this June, five Danish residence in Denmark to uncertain activists speaks to the entire population
human rights organisations – Amnesty conditions, risk of violence and without and automatically draws attention to
International Denmark, Danish UN support and network will be against the the ill-treatment of the “grandchildren.”
Association, Rehabilitation and spirit of the United Nations children A population that knows the asylum
Research Centre for Torture Victims, convention.” seekers, is a population that is unlikely
Save the Children Denmark and Euro- Like all other criticism of the Danish to accept their confinement to asylum
Mediterranean Human Rights Network asylum policy, the appeal fell on deaf centres for years or their forced
– asked the government not to forcibly ears. The politicians seem immune to deportation at night.
deport rejected Iraqi asylum seekers in criticism even in cases where families Maybe, that is why I and the others
Denmark to Iraq. In a joint statement, have been torn apart because the father from my asylum centre ended up getting
the organisations noted: “The children and the children got asylum while the asylum. We had become somebody’s
of the asylum seekers, who have grown mother was rejected. classmate, somebody’s friend,
up in Denmark, constitute a particularly Two years ago, a new movement somebody’s girlfriend or boyfriend. We
vulnerable group in need of help. They – Grandparents for Asylum – emerged were not just numbers in the press. That
have grown up in Denmark, speak Danish in Denmark, to campaign on behalf of is why the fight that is going on right
and consider themselves part of the the asylum children. It all started with now is a fight to put human faces before
Danish society. They have no ties to Iraq. a group of seniors who gathered in numbers and statistics. �
Studies have shown that it is harmful front of Centre Sandholm every Sunday.
for children to live in asylum centres The group soon multiplied and spread
for long periods of time. The examples to Centre Kongelunden and Centre Amila Jašarević is a human rights activist
are plenty that the parents’ ability to Avnstrup. Grandparents for Asylum
based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
fill the parental role and take care of have been very active in organising
their children is demolished during rallies and marches against the current Her weblog is available at:
their prolonged stay in uncertainty and asylum policy, while still gathering amilabosnae.wordpress.com