‘Asylum reception in the Netherlands is below average and in violation of human rights’

Asylum reception in the Netherlands is so substandard that it constitutes a violation of human rights. That is what European human rights commissioner Dunja Mijatovic says, giving the Netherlands a big slap on the fingers. Moreover, the asylum crisis is not the result of a sudden and unexpected arrival, but of structural shortcomings that they and others, both in and outside the Netherlands, identified much earlier and about which the government has done little or nothing.

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