Since friday Refugees from Choucha are on hungerstrike in front of the UNHCR office in Tunis. All 41 participants are accepted by UNHCR as refugees but did not receive Ressetlement. Instead UNHCR supported by various European governments started a local integration programm for those refugees.
Since this group experienced a lot of racism in Tunisia and fears for their security they started to protest, as you could read on this blogpost in their protest statement.
So during the WSF they widened their protest by entering into hungerstrike, with the basic demand of an enlargement of the Resettlement Programm – so that all refugees who fled the Libyan crisis would receive asylum in a country with a working protection system.
More information about this action and further steps will follow soon!
