PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
February 2, 1999
February 3: 100 days of Red-Green
PRO ASYL criticizes lacking contours in asylum policy
Gap between humanitarian requirements
and governmental activities must be bridged
- 3. Februar: 100 Tage Rot-Grün
PRO ASYL kritisiert Konturlosigkeit in der Asylpolitik
Kluft zwischen humanitären Erfordernissen und staatlichem Handeln muß geschlossen werden - February 3: 100 days of Red-Green
PRO ASYL criticizes lacking contours in asylum policy
Gap between humanitarian requirements and governmental activities must be bridged
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After the first 100 days of Red-Green the Nation-wide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL criticizes the lack of contours in the asylum policy of the new Federal Government. Not to make everything differently, but many things better‘ would be a quick and catchy formula but „however who only does everything for continuity, will be unsuccessful with his plans and don’t win any clear contours for a credible human rights and refugee policy „, said Heiko Kauffmann, the spokesman of Nation-wide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL. Therefore PRO ASYL demands a general overall plan for a human rights and integration policy.
„Refugee protection is today more then ever an essential cross-office job of the foreign and home policy as well as of the social and legal policy. We expect of a government coalition, which has won the elections with the claim of departure, renewing and social justice , that it attaches to the protection and the humane treatment of refugees a central importance in the context of its human rights and integration policy“, said Kauffmann.
As in the matter of the new naturalisation law PRO ASYL demands also for the refugee policy an enlightened and up-to-date understanding of the state and the civil society. Part of this would be among others:
The return to the international standards of the refugee law; unrestricted validity of the Geneva Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms;
improved protection of persecuted women, refugee children, civil war and torture victims as well as of victims of non-governmental persecution;
a humanitarian ruling of old cases for all refugees living in Germany longer than five years;
an end of the institutional exclusion of refugees in the field of social law by the Act on Benefits for Asylum seekers and the general prohibition of employment;
the abolition of the airport procedure and the detention pending deportation respective serious structural changes in the execution;
a ruling on hardship cases in the Aliens Act in order to regulate individual cases humanitarianly.
„Also in the refugee policy integration and protection of human rights are central concepts and incontrovertible categories“, declared Kauffmann.
