Caritas Luxembourg Makes Targeted Demands on World Refugee Day

On Tuesday 20 June 2023, for World Refugee Day, Caritas Luxembourg has issued a position paper with a series of demands and proposals to improve the reception, support and integration of refugees.

The following demands and proposals made by Caritas Luxembourg in terms of asylum, migration and social inclusion policy are based on the field experience of its employees, who are in daily contact with applicants for and beneficiaries of international protection and temporary protection through various support services. In their daily work, the employees of Caritas Luxembourg noted that many individuals’ situation could quickly be improved if certain pragmatic and targeted measures were taken.

Among their key demands are, as follows:

• fair treatment of different categories of people fleeing their country;
• autonomy of action and more responsibilities for NGOs;
• improving reception in refugee shelters;
• improving the reception of unaccompanied minors;
• easing access to the labour market;
• the establishment of financial assistance for family reunification;
• the implementation of adapted training courses;
• the regularisation of certain groups of third-country nationals.

According to Caritas Luxembourg, these measures would not only benefit the people concerned, but also Luxembourg’s society at large.