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Thursday, January 21, 2016

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Globedia Venezuela / The Danish Parliament is adamant Thursday and advanced processing a controversial amendment to the asylum law, although critics say violates the international conventions.

For the latter, Copenhagen aims to make the country less attractive to asylum seekers, demanding they hand over some of their valuables and cutting right to family reunification have access to refugees.

After a first meeting ten days ago, the Danish Parliament met again on Thursday to discuss the text, after a leftist parliamentarian requested a marginal modification of an item. After rejecting the request for amendment expeditiously, Parliament continued with the agenda.

Since it was launched in December by the Minister of Immigration and Integration, Inger Støjberg, the bill was modified to address the criticisms and get them to support the majority of MPs.

The project will be voted on January 26, in a round that provides easy after Monday’s liberal Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, who governs in minority, will set agreements with its partners and other formations.

On Tuesday, the government parties “formed by the liberal Venstre and the right partners, the Danish People’s Party, the Liberal Alliance and the Conservative People’s Party? Reached an agreement with the Social Democrats, the main party opposition.

More on EU Parliament Denmark By mere coincidence, the Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen, will attend Thursday to Geneva for a general audience about politics and human rights in his country, a procedure Ordinary periodically subject to the 193 UN member states

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The law feeds “fear and xenophobia,” the High United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). If the text finally adopted, the police will register migrants and confiscate the money exceeding 10,000 kroner (1,340 euros), as well as objects whose value exceeds 10,000 crowns.

The migrants will however retain the goods “with special sentimental value” like jewelry, medals or family portraits.

However, the main criticism of institutions and international organizations defending human rights concerns hardening mechanisms and deadlines for family reunification, which extends from one year to three the period within which an asylum seeker may request that his family travel to the host country.

The Deputy Director of Amnesty International NGOs, Gauri van Gulik, considers that this reform is a “discrimination” against a type of migrants and refugees, especially vulnerable.

Denmark, with 21,000 asylum applications in 2015, is one of the countries of the European Union has received more requests in relation to its population (5, 4 million inhabitants), behind Finland, Austria, Germany and Sweden, which received 163,000

VENEZUELA:. Denmark is pressing ahead with the reform of the asylum law

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