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Caritas requires better assessment vulnerability:
01.07.2025 – 08:30
Charity Schweiz / Charity Suisse
Lucerne (ots)
Asylum procedures in Switzerland cannot and should not be shortened at will. Similarly, Their acceleration has obvious limits with regard to the protection of particularly vulnerable people. Meanwhile, The identification of these people must become a real priority in Switzerland, requests Caritas Suisse in a position.
Many inappropriate people have serious trauma during their escape and suffer the long -term consequences. Meanwhile, It is often difficult for them to talk about what they caritas requires better assessment vulnerability have experienced. Additionally, Meanwhile, When they arrive in Switzerland, these people face an asylum procedure with very tight deadlines. In addition, As a result, their special protection needs, for example following sexual violence or torture, are often not identified.
However, in matters of asylum and migration policy, faster asylum procedures are always presented as a miracle remedy. However, In 2019, these accelerated procedures were introduced at the federal level. Free legal representation throughout the territory has made it possible to deal with many risks. But great challenges appear when migrants suffer from psychological stress following experiences of violence. torture and they need particular attention.
It is extremely complicated for authorities and legal advisers to identify these people as vulnerable in such a short time. But it is also very difficult for those concerned to prove their disorders on such short deadlines. Their access to medical examinations in federal caritas requires better assessment vulnerability asylum centers is strongly hampered.
The speed of the procedure should not affect the protection of vulnerable asylum applicants
Despite these challenges. several attempts have been made in recent years to further accelerate procedures. Thus. the “24 -hour” procedure is now applied throughout Switzerland and is taken into account in the development of the new global asylum strategy that the Confederation is implementing with the cantons, the municipalities and the cities at the moment. Other acceleration measures are also requested in Parliament. for example in an intervention by the Finance Committee of the Council of States.
From the point of view of Swiss Caritas, the acceleration of the asylum procedure has clear limits. The vulnerability of people asking for asylum and protection should not be ignored. It is essential that the policy gives more weight to the identification of particularly vulnerable migrants. especially during the development of caritas requires better assessment vulnerability the new global action plan for asylum. Indeed, it is only thus the needs of the asylum applicants concerned can be taken into account adequately.
Caritas therefore proposes to introduce a preliminary vulnerability examination in each asylum procedure. It also requires enhanced coordination: exchanges between medical staff. legal protection, now prohibited, must be made possible throughout the territory.
You can download our position The acceleration of asylum procedures has its limits On the site https://www.caritas.ch/fr/prises-de-position/.
Contact:
Fabrice Boulé, communication manager for French -speaking Switzerland, Swiss Caritas
[email protected]
041 419 23 36
Caritas requires better assessment vulnerability
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