{"id":4525,"date":"2015-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.conectas.org.inf.br\/wp\/noticias\/an-end-to-the-limbo-at-guarulhos-airport\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:21:41","slug":"an-end-to-the-limbo-at-guarulhos-airport","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/an-end-to-the-limbo-at-guarulhos-airport\/","title":"An end to the \u2018limbo\u2019 at Guarulhos airport?","content":"

The long wait for people who are denied entry to Brazil at S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s international airport of Guarulhos could be coming to an end. The immigrants are often required to spend weeks or even months in a room without adequate hygiene facilities or proper food, and without any legal counsel or prospects for resolving their situation.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, January 28, the Ministry of Justice, the PFDC (Federal Attorney General\u2019s Office for the Rights of the Citizen), the Federal Public Defender\u2019s Office and the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) signed an unprecedented technical agreement to identify and assist the people held in the so-called \u201cConnector Space<\/u><\/a>\u201d at the airport. The municipal government of Guarulhos is also a party to the agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe signature is the first step. What\u2019s important now is a swift implementation and a guarantee of the quality of the service to be provided,\u201d said Camila Asano, coordinator of Foreign Policy at Conectas.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/u><\/a> to read the document in full.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The idea behind the agreement \u2013 an initiative long supported by civil society \u2013 is to reduce the waiting time of these people to a minimum, guarantee them dignified treatment and ensure that they can access their rights. Two of the main objectives of the agreement are to file requests for refugee status and to solve cases involving stateless immigrants and victims of human trafficking.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody knows who they are, or where they come from. We need to understand that we could be dealing with refugee situations \u2013 and deportation, in some cases, can be a death sentence,\u201d Aur\u00e9lio Virg\u00edlio Veiga Rios, Federal Attorney General for the Rights of the Citizen, told Conectas.<\/p>\n

According to the new agreement, an employee appointed by the Guarulhos Municipal Social Services Department, at the request of the Ministry of Justice\u2019s Department of Justice, will provide the initial service to the immigrants and submit the most serious and urgent cases to the Federal Attorney General\u2019s Office. The PFDC, in turn, will monitor this work through the Guarulhos Attorney General\u2019s Office. The Guarulhos Social Services employee will receive training from the UNHCR and the Public Defender\u2019s Office will provide free counsel to whoever needs it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis could represent progress compared to what happens today, when the first contact with the immigrant is made by the police. There needs to be an authority that ensures respect for human rights,\u201d said Asano. Human rights organizations engaged in this issue praised the joint effort, but lamented the lack of participation by the Federal Police \u2013 which decided not to sign the agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe signing of this partnership demonstrates the urgency of reviewing the structure of how we deal with immigration in Brazil. This national security rationale urgently needs to be overcome,\u201d said Asano, in reference to the Foreigner Act \u2013 the law dating back to the military dictatorship that regulates immigration in the country.<\/p>\n

According to the PFDC, a ceremony will be held to add the final signature to the agreement \u2013 from the Guarulhos Office of Human Rights \u2013 on February 9, at midday, inside the airport.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Agreement could improve the situation for people who are prevented from entering the country and kept for weeks inside the terminal<\/p>\n","author":2,"featured_media":8907,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[567,568],"tema":[12278],"class_list":["post-4525","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-airport","tag-migrants","tema-democracy-and-human-rights-movement"],"acf":{"author":false},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","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\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT.jpg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT-300x180.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT-768x462.jpg","large":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT.jpg","post_slider_img":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT.jpg","storyform_xlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT.jpg","storyform_xxlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT.jpg","storyform_xxxlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT.jpg","noticia":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Antonio-Augusto-46_WEB_ALT.jpg"},"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":1550,"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":567,"name":"airport","slug":"airport","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":567,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/airport\/","relative_link":"tag\/airport\/","langs":{"en":"airport","br":null}},{"term_id":568,"name":"migrants","slug":"migrants","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":568,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":31,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/migrants\/","relative_link":"tag\/migrants\/","langs":{"en":"migrants","br":null}}]},"author_name":"Leonardo Medeiros","author_nicename":"leonardo-medeiros","protected":false,"langs":{"en":"an-end-to-the-limbo-at-guarulhos-airport","br":"fim-do-limbo-em-cumbica"},"permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/an-end-to-the-limbo-at-guarulhos-airport\/","relative_url":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/an-end-to-the-limbo-at-guarulhos-airport\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/4525","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}