{"id":34062,"date":"2021-11-12T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=34062"},"modified":"2021-11-22T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T14:25:09","slug":"in-a-mission-to-roraima-cndh-rights-council-hears-migrants-and-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/in-a-mission-to-roraima-cndh-rights-council-hears-migrants-and-asylum-seekers\/","title":"In a mission to Roraima, CNDH rights council hears migrants and asylum seekers","content":"

The CNDH (National Human Rights Council) staged a mission to the municipalities of Boa Vista and Pacaraima, in the state of Roraima, from November 7-10, to investigate reports of human rights violations resulting from the deterioration of the migration crisis in the region. <\/span><\/p>\n

The mission was formed by the following members of the CNDH: Yuri Costa, president; Virg\u00ednia Berriel, member; Joselito Sousa, member; and Camila Asano, ad hoc consultant and also program director at Conectas. Also participating were Gabriel Travassos, of the Federal Public Defender\u2019s Office, and Raissa Belintani, coordinator of the Strengthening Democratic Space program at Conectas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to visiting the different places that house migrants, we visited the border region and the sites that first receive the migrants, conduct the triage and provide shelter. We also listened to the different actors involved in <\/span>Opera\u00e7\u00e3o Acolhida<\/span><\/i> [Operation Welcome, the federal government\u2019s migrant program], such as the people in charge of the program, UN agencies, the Federal Public Defender\u2019s Office and the Federal Police,\u201d said the president of CNDH.<\/span><\/p>\n

Costa explained that the aim of the mission was to get a sense of the inflows, the problems and challenges of the migration, by listening \u2013 as could only be the case \u2013 to immigrants and refugees either in the shelters or living on the streets.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe mission had the benefit of getting closer to the authorities and also to the people directly affected. Furthermore, we inspected the border region, visiting Pacaraima, a town that clearly does not have the structure to receive so many people, in addition to Boa Vista,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mission\u2019s participants identified a number of challenges in these places. In particular, the stalling of people who come to Brazil every day, whether through triage or through delays in the relocation process. \u201cThe institutions involved are very concerned with identifying the bottlenecks to enable the flow of people. There are many families, individuals and even unaccompanied children and adolescents, so there is a very broad range of situations,\u201d noted Costa.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another worrisome aspect concerns the system of shelters in Boa Vista, since Operation Welcome plans to introduce a new guideline increasing the number of people who can be accommodated in a single shelter, to 1500 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to look very carefully at this guideline to make sure that the expanded shelter system will not cause human rights violations. There are currently at least four shelters for indigenous people, which will be merged into two. Their resistance was quite visible, and they said they were not consulted in advance. In both places \u2013 Boa Vista and Pacaraima \u2013 we are very concerned about the number of families living on the streets\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Council member Virg\u00ednia Berriel explained that the participants visited several shelters in Boa Vista and then went to Pacaraima \u2013 the entry point for all migrants coming from Venezuela. \u201cThe situation in the town is very delicate, with many people living on the streets. Although all the efforts made by the Army and civil society institutions such as UNHCR and UNICEF are well organized and well run, an average of 2,000 people are arriving every day in Brazil,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing we found very glaring was that many people prefer to stay on the streets because families are separated in shelters. The people on the streets of Pacaraima are facing a situation of extreme vulnerability and abandonment. And it\u2019s not just adults, there are children with their families and it\u2019s all very sad,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mission took place after the Council received a series of complaints about the extreme vulnerability of the people arriving in Pacaraima. The complaints included concerns about the elderly and children; the time it takes to register entry into the country and access the social services offered by the Operation Welcome program; delays in the Federal Police\u2019s asylum application system; difficulty finding employment; and xenophobia.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/div>","excerpt":"

The CNDH (National Human Rights Council) staged a mission to the municipalities of Boa Vista and Pacaraima, in the state of Roraima, from November 7-1…<\/p>\n","author":26,"featured_media":34018,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,13170,13169],"tema":[12278],"class_list":["post-34062","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-migration","tag-venezuelan-in-roraima","tag-venezuelan-migrantes","tema-democracy-and-human-rights-movement"],"acf":{"subtitle-pt":"The council also met with authorities from the government\u2019s Operation Welcome program","links_para_referencia":false,"author":{"ID":26,"user_firstname":"Gabriel","user_lastname":"Guerra","nickname":"gabriel.guerra","user_nicename":"gabriel-guerra","display_name":"Gabriel Guerra","user_email":"","user_url":"","user_registered":"2021-03-15 20:54:31","user_description":"","user_avatar":""}},"yoast":{"focuskw":"CNDH","title":"","metadesc":"The council also met with authorities from the government\u2019s Operation Welcome program","linkdex":"50","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"featured_image":{"original":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17.jpeg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17-150x150.jpeg","medium":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17-966x644.jpeg","medium_large":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17-768x512.jpeg","large":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17-1024x682.jpeg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17.jpeg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17.jpeg","post_slider_img":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17-350x233.jpeg","storyform_xlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17-1152x768.jpeg","storyform_xxlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17.jpeg","storyform_xxxlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17.jpeg","noticia":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-12-at-16.40.17-1140x760.jpeg"},"terms":{"acoes_categorias":[],"acoes_tags":[],"category":[{"term_id":7,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1520,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/category\/news\/","relative_link":"category\/news\/","langs":{"en":"news","br":"noticia-conectas"}}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":59,"name":"migration","slug":"migration","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":59,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":97,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/migration\/","relative_link":"tag\/migration\/","langs":{"en":"migration","br":"migracao"}},{"term_id":13170,"name":"Venezuelan in Roraima","slug":"venezuelan-in-roraima","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":13170,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/venezuelan-in-roraima\/","relative_link":"tag\/venezuelan-in-roraima\/","langs":{"en":"venezuelan-in-roraima","br":null}},{"term_id":13169,"name":"venezuelan migrantes","slug":"venezuelan-migrantes","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":13169,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/venezuelan-migrantes\/","relative_link":"tag\/venezuelan-migrantes\/","langs":{"en":"venezuelan-migrantes","br":null}}]},"author_name":"Gabriel Guerra","author_nicename":"gabriel-guerra","protected":false,"langs":{"en":"in-a-mission-to-roraima-cndh-rights-council-hears-migrants-and-asylum-seekers","br":"em-missao-a-roraima-cndh-realiza-escuta-de-pessoas-migrantes-ou-em-refugio"},"permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/in-a-mission-to-roraima-cndh-rights-council-hears-migrants-and-asylum-seekers\/","relative_url":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/in-a-mission-to-roraima-cndh-rights-council-hears-migrants-and-asylum-seekers\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/34062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34062"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=34062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}