ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΣΤΟ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΙΚΟ
Γράφει η κα Benys, αιτήτρια ασύλου από το Καμερούν, που βρίσκεται στην Κύπρο τους τελευταίους 14 μήνες.
The journey to Cyprus and its impacts (Positive or Negative) as a refugee.
How we found ourselves as asylum seekers in Cyprus.
Bias Racism and Discrimination as Immigrants/Refugees/Asylum Seekers in Cyprus.
The future of Asylum seekers and the recognition and implementation of asylum laws (international and nation laws) as a tool to fight discrimination and protect human Rights.
Asylum is a fundamental right and when recognized, it becomes an international obligation. Due fear of persecution, millions of individuals have flee their home countries in search of protection in other peaceful parts of the world of which women and children makes up 75% of such population. Over the years, Turkey has been spotted to aid the entering of refugees into Europe by opening its borders by encouraging visa free to third world countries. Such vacuum has potentially allowed millions of refugees especially from Asia, Syria and Africa in to Europe. Such crowed has caused a lot of confusion with the outcome being smudging, trafficking, prostitution, humanitarian distress harsh entering methods amongst others.
Over the years, research has proofed that refugees who flee
from persecution turn to narrow or loss their human rights as
they search for safety. Statistics have shown that Cyprus host the highest number of refugees in Europe as the amount stands at 27% while countries like Germany has 1.5% and France 3% amongst
others. The increasing number of refugees in Cyprus emanating
from Syria, Cameroon, Congo and Nigeria has caused a bottleneck asylum problem coupled with the lack of hosting facilities plus the fact that Human Rights lawyers are not available and the procedure to access the courts for refugees are relatively slow and opaque. Though we have some services provided by human rights NGO’s such as MY Hub, Caritas, Dignity Center and UNHCR, the guarantee of refugees rights is very slow as the population is overwarming.
In examining the status of refugees in Cyprus, related government response, the application of human right (international and national laws), legal advocacy to secure to secure rights, we will say that a lot needs to be done at the level of implementations of laws.
The UNHCR and the Republic of Cyprus has over the years tried to better the lives of asylum seekers by creating temporal habitants for them were they are hosted and probably examined during the asylum procedure. Such facilities around in the capital city of Cyprus precisely in Pournara and in Lanaka where we have the Cofinou camp. The above mention camps cannot host the number of asylum seeker as it has the capacity to carry about 200 asylum seekers but during the quarantine period, up to 600 asylum seeker were reported to be in the Pounara camp in Nicosia, leading to a three days’ hunger strike and a physical confrontation between the
security and the asylum seekers for which they were charge for
terrorism. Though the journey has been without its strength and witnesses, we remain grateful to the government of the Republic of Cyprus for his accommodation and kind gestures.
Below are some explanations of how and why some
individuals got here and their experiences.
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