{"id":6182,"date":"2020-04-07T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T06:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2020-04-07T08:33:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T05:33:35","slug":"u-n-urges-countries-to-extend-care-to-all-migrants-to-combat-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vauen\/u-n-urges-countries-to-extend-care-to-all-migrants-to-combat-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. urges countries to extend care to all migrants to combat coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and trafficking victims worldwide should be granted access to healthcare and welfare &#8211; regardless of their legal status &#8211; to protect them during the coronavirus pandemic, two United Nations experts said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Migrants working in sectors such as farming or the shadow economy often lack any protection against COVID-19, while asylum seekers in crowded shelters or detention centres cannot practise social distancing, according to the U.N. special rapporteurs.\u00a0Irregular migrants &#8211; including victims of modern slavery &#8211; who fall ill may not seek healthcare for fear of being exposed to the authorities and detained, arrested or deported, activists across several nations have told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal last month said all foreigners with pending residency applications &#8211; including asylum seekers &#8211; will be treated as permanent residents until at least July 1 to ensure migrants have access to public services during the outbreak.\u00a0However, Indian health workers caused outrage last week by spraying a group of migrants with disinfectant while about 1,000 African migrants in Malta were placed under mandatory quarantine on Sunday after COVID-19 infected eight people in their camp.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. experts also called for support schemes for vulnerable migrants and trafficking victims to be automatically extended for at least six months if coming to an end &#8211; to ensure that such communities are not left unprotected or without help.\u00a0The global migrant and refugee population hit an estimated 272 million last year &#8211; up by 51 million since the beginning of the decade &#8211; while about 25 million people worldwide are thought to be victims of forced labour, the latest U.N. statistics show.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20200406111511-pvd00\/\">Thomson Reuters Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and trafficking victims worldwide should be granted access to healthcare and welfare &#8211; regardless of their legal status &#8211; to protect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"1","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[607,526,494],"class_list":["post-6182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vauen","category-vaufien","tag-healthcare","tag-migrants","tag-refugees","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-35-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pakolainen_tytto.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6183,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions\/6183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}