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Gibraltar: Human rights abuses

01 March 1992

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The British government has responded with a marked lack of concern to allegations made in a report by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) on systematic and flagrant abuses of human rights in the colony of Gibraltar. According to the report, published in February, Moroccan workers on the Rock, some of whom have lived there for 23 years, are deported as soon as they are unemployed - yet EC workers are always accorded preference in the job market. In addition, children born there are deported, and pregnant women are forced to leave. The migrant workers are denied social security benefits, despite paying tax and national insurance, and are housed in filthy and overcrowded barrack-style hostels. JCWI said it intended legal actions against the British government in the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. But the governor's office was unrepentant. It was planning even tougher measures, which would prevent all wives and children from visiting the colony, because in the past "women had become pregnant on visits and then tried to stay with their husbands".

Between a Rock and a Hard Place, JCWI, 115 Old Street, London EC1V 9JR; Independent 3.2.92.

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