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DENMARK: Discrimination against immigrant and asylum seekers on hunger strike

01 May 2012

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"Immigrants in Denmark suffer racism and discrimination according to a report released this week by the Council of Europe’s anti-discrimination organisation, the ECRI"

See: Full article (Copenhagen Post, link)

See also: "Several groups of asylum seekers, numbering around 80 in total, are staging hunger strikes across Denmark. The groups have varying motivations – some have had their asylum cases rejected, while others are protesting their standards of living as a result of being barred from working and living outside asylum centres"

Full article: Asylum seekers stage hunger strikes throughout nation (Copenhagen Post, link)

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