38 Human Rights Watch interview, Las Palmas, October 30, 2001. Found inside – Page 9... the national government address the migrant crisis in the islands.22 Health and Welfare Migrants detained at the old Fuerteventura and Lanzarote airport ... In addition, Human Rights Watch interviewed seven migrants who had recently been detained in the Lanzarote airport facility upon arrival in the Canaries as well as migrants' and humanitarian organizations providing service to migrants in Lanzarote. 45 Tomás Bárbulo, "The Canaries Government Rejects the Creation of an Immigrant Center in the Old Army Barracks in Fuerteventura," El País, December 19, 2001. . Apartado de Correos 54 Instead, migrants are expected to organize among themselves a cleaning schedule for the bathrooms, using supplies provided on a humanitarian basis by the Spanish Red Cross. We don't even see the sun. You have to think that it is temporary. Yet, according to a number of migrants interviewed by Human Rights Watch, there are no bathing facilities to which detainees have unrestricted access. 17 See Tomás Bárbulo and Juan Manuel Pardellas, "The PSOE Calls for an Emergency Plan for Immigration in the Canaries," El País, January 11, 2002. Found insideWhile highlighting topics including overcrowding, social displacement, and tourism management, this book is ideally designed for local government officials, policymakers, lawmakers, researchers, entrepreneurs, industry professionals, travel ... Migrant arrivals to Spain's Canary Islands double from last year Migrants wait to disembark from a Spanish coast guard vessel in the port of Arguineguin, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain . Resolution adopted at the EGP Council, Geneva, 15 October 2006. Address: Found inside – Page iThis open access book provides an alternative theoretical framework of irregular migration that allows to overcome many of the contradictions and theoretical impasses displayed by the majority of approaches in current literature. 27 Bárbulo, "Airport Becomes Hell...," El País, quoting Els van Leemput, Spanish Red Cross worker. Essentially, their medications are not continued and they are not informed about the medications that they have been taking so that they may be continued elsewhere. Plans are now afoot to build one of Europe's largest migrant camps, housing 7,000 across three . Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. About 1,000 arrived on Saturday alone, setting out on . The number of migrant arrivals to the archipelago is near a historic high: More than 20,000 people from Morocco and western African countries like Senegal have arrived on Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote since the beginning of the year -- more than five times as many as in 2019 and 2018 combined. The lack of privacy and inability of patients to speak in confidence with their physicians raises serious concerns about the ability of migrants to access what could be critical health care.34. As one worker at the Spanish Red Cross noted, [i]t is not an internment center. Found inside – Page iIn Child-friendly Justice, world-leading experts on children’s rights analyse how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has strengthened children’s status in civil, administrative and criminal justice systems. In the port of Arguineguín in the Canary Islands, approximately 2,000 migrants are in police custody, sheltered in a makeshift camp on . The men and women detained at the Fuerteventura and Lanzarote facilities are all . . Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:00 AM. . Human Rights Watch telephone interview, Spanish Red Cross, January 4, 2002. Among the sub-Saharan Africans rescued Tuesday evening south of the island of Gran Canaria were 29 women and nine children in poor health. The Mediterranean migrant crisis has moved to the Atlantic. See Juan Manuel Pardellas, "A Hundred Immigrants Detained in Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, and Algeciras," El País, February 1, 2002. Human Rights Watch interview, Spanish Red Cross (Fuerteventura), Puerto del Rosario, October 31, 2001. Spain's new volcano attracts visitors, destroys banana crops. The Canary Islands has seen arrivals increase tenfold in a year to around 20,000 by late November. As of 1 January 2020, Spain had a total population of 47,431,256, which represents a 0.9% increase since 2019. Another boat was spotted near the island of Lanzarote Wednesday and a rescue operation was under way. This weekend has seen the most intense seismic activity yet with over 400 earthquakes, some felt by the public…. We are working on fixing this. When situations are new, it is difficult to find new solutions. Found insideBridging academic inquiry and artistic and activist practice, the essays, documents, and artworks gathered in Moving Images interrogate the mediation of migration and refugeeism in the contemporary European conjuncture, asking how images, ... The idea was that they could change bed sheets every week but in practice they spend forty days with the same sheet and cover. Canaries 'facing migrant crisis' Migrant centres on the islands are reaching full capacity. Human Rights Watch interview, Puerto del Rosario, October 31, 2001. high with respect to migrant children. 21 st Jan 2021 @ 10:16 am. For twenty-four days I did not see the sun.24, There are insufficient toilets and showers (only cold water). The rooms [airport facilities] even belong to the airport, not to us. After the visit of Special Representative Enrique Fernández-Miranda we were sure we had to do something. 25 Bárbulo, "Airport Becomes Hell...," El País. The Canary Islands enters yellow alert due to volcanic risk in La Palma. .," El País. Local officials and organisations are marking the anniversary today with a memorial ceremony. Migrant crisis. The men and women detained at the Fuerteventura and Lanzarote facilities are all migrants who have arrived in Spain on small boats ("pateras") from the North African coast, principally Morocco and Mauritania. . 12 Human Rights Watch interview, Puerto del Rosario, October 31, 2001. The Canary Islands has seen arrivals increase tenfold in a year to around 20,000 by late November. Current IOM data corroborates these figures: The average number of passengers per arriving . Between 2018 and 2020, an average of between 290,000 and 340,000 children per year were born into a refugee life. 30 Migrants in the two airport facilities have three meals a day. Human Rights Watch interview, Spanish Red Cross (Fuerteventura), October 31, 2001, Puerto del Rosario; Human Rights Watch telephone interview, Dr. Pedro Media, November 1, 2001; Human Rights Watch interview, Dr. Juan Letang, Puerto del Rosario, November 1, 2001. Because Human Rights Watch was denied access to the facilities, our researchers were not able to personally assess the conditions of detention in these facilities, but the consistent accounts of the substandard conditions in which hundreds of migrants are held for up to forty days raises serious concerns about the hygiene and health risks they face. They live and sleep in the same room; they can never leave. About 1,000 arrived on Saturday alone, setting out on . Found inside... had helped save the lives of numerous migrants (El Mundo, 28 June 2005). ... the migration crisis in 2006 on the Canary Islands showed that the SIVE had ... Spain's Maritime Rescue Service had previously received alerts for around 200 people on four different migrant boats. The Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean has become the main route for West African and Moroccan migrants and asylum-seekers trying to reach Europe. . In short, reports from migrants, migrants' organizations, the Spanish Red Cross, and independent doctors indicate that hygiene and health conditions at the Fuerteventura airport detention facility are cause for serious concern. While generally children are not detained in the airport facilities, Human Rights Watch has received reports that at times infants and young children are detained. Young men were pulled from the water after a boat carrying more than 30 people overturned overnight. The government has a clear responsibility to ensure that there is a system in place for maintaining the basic health condition of detainees in their custody, including the administering of required medications in between short weekly or bi-weekly visits from voluntary doctors. Rather, police must escort detainees in groups to facilities outside the building if they wish to shower. Bárbulo, "Airport Becomes Hell...," El País; Human Rights Watch telephone interview, Spanish Red Cross, December 17, 2001. In addition, there is no access to fresh air, nor is there a proper ventilation system installed in the facilities.23 Migrants complained most about their inability to see the sun or go outside: I entered the Fuerteventura camp on September 12, 2001. . They have only small medical problems, much of which comes from the change in food. 8 The Spanish national police added additional toilet and shower facilities after mid-2001, bringing them to these current numbers. Unlike our visitors to East of England the goverment has a good dispersal method for the 35,000 illegal ( offical figures) of immigrants and the possibly many thousand more. The conditions of detention within these makeshift facilities raise serious concerns about the human rights of those detained. "36 For detainees who are receiving medication there are problems with continuation of treatment once they are transferred from the facility. The tranquility of the town of Máguez was interrupted last night two immigrants from the Aula de la Naturaleza holding centre, escaped by climbing out of a window. The arrival of five pateras (fishing boats) containing 130 migrants over the last few days has caused Oswaldo Betancort, the Mayor of Teguise and Deputy in the Canarian parliament, to demand an "honest assessment" of the situation from the Canarian Government. Communication For the time-being there are enough bunk beds for all detainees, but the recent transfer of forty-five migrants from the Fuerteventura airport facility to the facility in Lanzarote raises concern that the Spanish government (or local authorities) may pursue a short-term strategy of relocating detainees to an equally substandard, albeit less crowded, facility in lieu of addressing the profound inadequacy of the current makeshift detention facilities in the Canary Islands. They are not permitted to go outdoors and cannot engage in any form of exercise since the room in which they must live and sleep is overrun by large numbers of other migrants, baggage carousels, and mattresses and bunk beds lining the walls. The number of migrant arrivals to the archipelago is near a historic high: More than 20,000 people from Morocco and western African countries like Senegal have arrived on Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote since the beginning of the year -- more than five times as many as in 2019 and 2018 combined. 50 Human Rights Watch telephone interview, November 5, 2001. Lanzarote has declared an official humanitarian emergency after more than 100 African migrant children flooded onto the beaches in tiny boats. . 15 Human Rights Watch telephone interview, Spanish Red Cross (Fuerteventura), December 17, 2001. . They have water throughout the day. Found insideThe aim of the European Convention on the Adoption of Children (revised) (CETS No. 202) is to set out a collection of legal rules aimed at harmonising the adoption of children in Europe according to the core principles of the Council of ... News. The REAL migrant invasion: Officials stop 13 children and 20 adults as they land on Lanzarote beach as number attempting to reach Spain passes 400 in just days Spanish Civil Guard stopped 33 . A record number of African migrants, almost 1,200 in 36 hours, reached the shores of the Spanish Canary Islands at the weekend, crammed into eight rickety boats . A lawyer for Lanzarote Acoge, the main migrants' non-governmental organization operating in Lanzarote, told Human Rights Watch that, like in Fuerteventura, lawyers and nongovernmental organization representatives may not visit the Lanzarote airport facility. 34 The Spanish Red Cross told Human Rights Watch that doctors in Lanzarote are similarly dissatisfied with the area in which they must perform physical examinations of detainees. See above discussion (Overcrowding Section). This book provides the first comprehensive account of the widespread but neglected global phenomenon of child migration, exploring the complex challenges facing children and adolescents who move to join their families, those who are moved ... Fewer migrants arrive at the island of Lanzarote, thus reducing the overcrowding in already substandard conditions. 31 Human Rights Watch interview, Dr. Juan Letang, Puerto del Rosario, November 1, 2001. The island’s leaders have slammed the lack of resources and says the youngsters have been sleeping in tents in a special camp which cannot meet their needs. All of the health problems they have are because of the conditions of the center.31, Soon after our interview, the number of migrants being held in cramped rooms without ventilation rose to more than 500, causing Dr. Letang and the other volunteer doctors providing assistance at the facility to join the Spanish Red Cross in condemning the detention facilities. 38390 Santa Ursula 53 Human Rights Watch interview, Carlos Guervós, Deputy Director of Immigration, Ministry of Interior, Madrid, November 12, 2001; Human Rights Watch interview, Manuel Prieto, Head of Foreigners and Documentation Department, José García Santalla, Chief of Central Foreigners Unit (Foreigners and Documentation Department), and José Ramón Pérez García, Chief of Statistics, Spanish National Police (within the Ministry of Interior), Madrid, November 14, 2001. Found inside... current refugee crisis, where many people are being abandoned by society, ... island of Lanzarote.9 The installation conflates times, spaces, and arts. Lanzarote’s government, the Cabildo, has also severely criticised the “inefficiency” of Spain’s border control service and the constant arrival of small boats over the last few days which should have been intercepted. from a boat east of the island of Lanzarote in the early hours of yesterday, a coastguard . 1) Mission and Ministry Board approves grant for new collaboration to aid Afghanistan evacuees. And the evening meal is another bread roll. Migrant crisis at Texas border. Island president Pedro San Ginés said there had been a constant stream of illegal immigrants arriving in Lanzarote over the last few weeks and slammed “the lack of sensitivity and response of the central government to this humanitarian crisis and migratory problem that exists in the Canaries.”. Pedro San Ginés said the situation was “seriously affecting the island of Lan-zarote” which is hugely popular with British families. 8/2000 (Regarding the Rights and Freedoms of Foreign Nationals Living in Spain and their Social Integration) in combination with Section 2.a (Internment Centers for Foreigners), Article 127(4) of the law's Regulations for the Application of Spanish Law on Foreign Nationals. Found inside... AECF 2000 Legal and Illegal Migration (“... expressed their commitment to ... 4th and 6th FMM; AECF 2000; Lanzarote Declaration Migratory Flows between ... (See below section on International and Regional Standards (The Detention of Children).). Top Stories. Underwater migrant sculptures 'drowned' in Atlantic Ocean to show human cost of refugee crisis. Note that because some Spanish Red Cross workers requested anonymity, we have chosen to withhold all names. We and NGOs are asking for a new installation for a long time now."51. If we're asking a man in English what his problem is all the women can hear and so can the police. Spain's Maritime Rescue Service rescued the 84 passengers of two boats Wednesday, and 52 from one more late Tuesday, near the island of Gran Canaria. The REAL migrant invasion: Officials stop 13 children and 20 adults as they land on Lanzarote beach as number attempting to reach Spain passes 400 in just days Spanish Civil Guard stopped 33 . They get everything from the Red Cross, including medical care because the government doesn't provide medical or sanitary assistance. They say that up until Sep-tember 30th, 659 immigrants have reached the Canaries by sea, 522 more than in the same period of 2017, “which means multiply by five the figures of last year.”. Dr. Juan Letang, head of surgery at the Fuerteventura hospital, told Human Rights Watch: [i]n general they're all very healthy. The paucity of toilet, bathing, and washing facilities, in combination with scarce sunlight, fresh air, and ventilation and the failure of the Spanish authorities to take responsibility for routine cleaning of the facility, violates the basic human rights of those detained. 14 hospitalized in Canaries after migrants rescued at sea. Statistics for January 2002 indicate that the number of migrants who arrived in Lanzarote in January alone is approximately 25 percent of last year's arrivals to Lanzarote. Spain's population peaked in 2019 . Seven die as migrant boat capsizes off coast of Lanzarote. The facilities in Lanzarote are equally restrictive. . 23 Human Rights Watch interviews with migrants, Las Palmas, October 29 - November 3, 2001; and Human Rights Watch interview, social worker who previously worked for the Spanish Red Cross distributing medical kits inside the Fuerteventura facility, Puerto del Rosario, October 31, 2001. 4 By "Sahrawis" Human Rights Watch intends to refer to persons who are indigenous to the disputed Western Sahara. .," El País. The aim of the Special Issue is to discuss the main current topics concerning marketing for sustainable tourism with reference to territories (i.e., tourism destinations, protected areas, parks and/or natural sites, UNESCO World Heritage ... Human Rights Watch telephone interview, Spanish Red Cross, January 4, 2002. In January 2002, Spanish Red Cross staff verified these dimensions during a follow-up telephone interview. * More than 40 Africans are rescued, while four die, after their boat ran aground on the coast of Lanzarote in Spain's Canary Islands, while more than 100 people make it safely to other islands. There are no social workers. 10 Spanish Red Cross did not know the exact number of bunk beds and mattresses available, noting that some of the beds were already broken on arrival. Migrant crisis. Seven African migrants have died trying to reach the Spanish island of Lanzarote, Canary Islands police say. Even Priti Patel has a hotel full in her constituency. . Representatives of CEAR46 (Fuerteventura), an organization that aids migrants and asylum seekers in Fuerteventura and runs a children's center in Puerto del Rosario, described a case in which a child was kept in a children's home, separated from his parents because they were being held in detention in the old airport facility. 42 See Law No. The real figures would be interesting. 33 Human Rights Watch interview, Dr. Juan Letang, Puerto del Rosario, November 1, 2001. 7 Most of the information on detention conditions gathered by our researchers in late October and November 2001 pertains to the Fuerteventura facility. They are furious with the Spanish Government for "ignoring" the problem and its refusal to . The group told rescuers they had been at sea in the Atlantic Ocean for five days. For the most part, pregnant women or women with small children are not detained. " Give counsel, grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive" (Isaiah 16:3). . See also footnote 2 of this report. The current health care set-up depends solely on volunteer doctors, who are required to work in substandard conditions, and does not incorporate routine health checks to prevent epidemics or reliable systems for the administration of medication to migrants. The unofficial figures ate between 450,00 and 1.2M. 19 The forum was created by the regional government of the Canary Islands for the purpose of discussing immigration policy among local, regional, and central government representatives and nongovernmental and humanitarian organizations concerned with migrants' issues. Europe migrant crisis; . Canaries 'facing migrant crisis' Migrant centres on the islands are reaching full capacity. Not surprisingly, recent reports indicate that the toilet and bathroom area is regularly flooded: "The water seeps out under the door and wets the nearby mattresses, putting the health of those sleeping there at risk." 43 Juan Manuel Pardellas, "Interior Returns 200 Illegal Immigrants Detained in Fuerteventura to Morocco," El País, January 23, 2002, noting that on January 23 the Civil Guard had detained one hundred migrants who were then transferred to the airport facilities in Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, including a nine-month-old and six other minors in Fuerteventura and four minors in Lanzarote. The island's leaders have slammed the lack of resources and says the youngsters have been sleeping in tents in a special camp which cannot meet their needs. Spain's Canary Islands can no longer cope with the soaring number of illegal immigrants arriving from Africa, local leaders say. Found inside – Page 110Lanzarote Committee: Protecting children affected by the refugee crisis from sexual ... Family reunification for refugee and migrant children: standards and ... Sep 19, 10:32 AM. They are furious with the Spanish Government for "ignoring" the problem and its refusal to . Human Rights Watch telephone interview, Spanish Red Cross, January 4, 2002. The men and women detained at the Fuerteventura and Lanzarote facilities are all . EU Migrant Crisis: 11 missing near Spain's Canaries. There used to not even be a bed; so, if someone had a stomach problem we couldn't even examine him or her. 11 Human Rights Watch interviews with migrants, Las Palmas, October 30-November 1, 2001; Human Rights Watch interview, Spanish Red Cross (Fuerteventura), Puerto del Rosario, October 31, 2001. Human Rights Watch telephone interview, Coordinator for the Spanish Red Cross, Washington, D.C., January 4, 2002. Human Rights Watch interview, Spanish Red Cross (Fuerteventura), Puerto del Rosario, October 31, 2001; Human Rights Watch telephone interview, Spanish Red Cross (Fuerteventura), December 17, 2001. ), The men's room, the largest area of the detention facility, measures approximately twenty-by-twenty-meters (4,300 square feet).9 It is the baggage claim area passengers previously used to enter from the airport landing strip. Found insideThe best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Lanzarote has declared an official humanitarian emergency after more than 100 African migrant children flooded onto the beaches in tiny boats. The real figures would be interesting. Found inside – Page 324HERNÁNDEZ MARTÍN, U.: «La crisis de la cochinilla en Lanzarote, 1875-1970», ... Return migration and regional economic problems, Croom Helm, 1987. The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on . Upon disembarkation, Red Cross medics immediately performed resuscitating maneuvers on a baby girl, Iñigo Vila head of Red Cross Emergency Unit told the Associated Press. Although the boy had departed the center when Human Rights Watch representatives visited, other children at the center, as well as one of the teachers, confirmed his recent presence, commenting that he spent much of the time crying for his mother.47 CEAR believes that the child and his mother were deported together to Morocco.48 Lack of cooperation from the national police in Fuerteventura made it impossible to obtain further information or official comment on this case. They are furious with the Spanish Government for “ignoring” the problem and its refusal to allow the Canary Government to use army barracks in Arrecife as overflow accommodation. It should also be noted that although there are fewer arrivals to Lanzarote than Fuerteventura (less than 20 percent of migrants to the Canaries reach Lanzarote), recent reports indicate that the patera routes are changing to destinations in Lanzarote. 13 Human Rights Watch telephone interview, Spanish Red Cross (Fuerteventura), December 17, 2001. * Thousands of Hondurans, including many families with children, cross the border at El Florido to Guatemala, hoping to reach the United States. In Lanzarote, ventilation is equally poor. There should be a social worker, a doctor, and a translator but there is not. Spanish Red Cross told Human Rights Watch that the child was constantly wetting his bed and crying because he was so frightened.44 On December 18, the child and his father were removed from the facility and transferred to a Red Cross shelter.45. Found inside – Page 1EDITORIAL Not Another Declaration , Hopefully Lanzarote is a beautiful vacation ... and Laotians in the wake of the Indochinese crisis in the 1970s . . NEWS. They estimate that there are enough beds for 200 to 250 of the men detained, with extra mattresses for the floor. 29 The medical attention offered by volunteer Red Cross doctors to detainees at the Lanzarote facility is comparable to the treatment described in Fuerteventura. This volume comprises a selection of papers describing the main features of the Lanzarote and Chinijo Islands Geopark (Canary Archipelago, Spain). Policy responses to protect and support these migrant children are often fragmented and inconsistent and while children on the move have become a recognised part of today's global and mixed migration flows they are still largely invisible ... A hot, humid and rainy day forecast in the Canary Islands today. . . Most of it is presently under de facto Moroccan control. Rather, reports in January 2002 indicate that the number of migrants arriving in the Canaries during the fall of 2001 is more than three times greater than the number of migrants who arrived on the islands in fall 2000.16 Moreover, just in the first ten days of 2002 at least 150 migrants were intercepted while arriving in the Canary Islands.17 Another 300 migrants arrived in the two weeks following.18, During a Forum for Immigration in Gran Canaria called by the regional government in the Canary Islands in December 2001,19 the Spanish Red Cross and volunteer doctors servicing the Fuerteventura facility publicly denounced the conditions in the old airport terminal and expressed concern over the possibility of a dangerous health epidemic.20 In early January 2002, the four volunteer doctors and two nurses providing medical care at the Fuerteventura facility announced their decision to stop providing these services. Human Rights Watch spoke with officials of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs for the regional government of the Canary Islands, as well as with the deputy director general for immigration, and the head of the office for foreigners and documentation at the Spanish National Police headquarters in Madrid, both within the Spanish Ministry of Interior. It has seven offices throughout Spain, including offices in Las Palmas and Fuerteventura. It is only when you get your liberty that you have a chance to start soliciting for a lawyer, only when you get to Las Palmas.38, There are no telephones available to migrants at the Fuerteventura facility, nor can migrants receive phone calls, visits, or mail.39 Government officials and an agent of the Police Intervention Unit guarding the Fuerteventura facility confirmed these reports in interviews with Human Rights Watch.40. This section focuses on the conditions of detention in the Fuerteventura facility, bringing attention to similarly adverse conditions in the Lanzarote facility where appropriate.7, According to the Spanish Red Cross, the entire facility in Fuerteventura measures approximately thirty-by-thirty-meters (9,600 square feet) in size. See also Pardellas, "The Canary Islands Demand Control . Detention of Children They confirmed that many migrants sleep on the floor on mattresses and sheets that are not routinely cleaned and that while they have food and water,30 they have very little else. Found insideIn Social Rights of Children in Europe Katharina Häusler provides a thorough analysis of how the major European human rights bodies interpret children’s basic social rights and thus unfolds the main challenges for the realisation of ... . Human Rights Watch telephone interview, Carmen Steinert, lawyer, Lanzarote Acoge, December 19, 2001. PARIS -- The Latest on Europe's migrant crisis (all times local): 2:30 p.m. Police in Bosnia say a fight among migrants at a tent camp in the northwest of the country has left four people slightly . . Spanish Red Cross confirmed these reports in a subsequent interview. The December 11, 2001 session addressed among other issues conditions in the airport detention facilities as well as the ongoing debate over the construction of new internment facilities. Found inside21 Lanzarote Committee/Committee of the Parties to the Council of Europe Convention ... on 'Protecting children affected by the refugee crisis from sexual ... There is no curtain; there are just divider screens and now one of the screens is being used as the table.33, The state of the "health clinic" in the Fuerteventura airport facility restricts the ability of doctors to provide adequate care to detainees. 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