Non Admission / Right to Emergency Assistance
17.02.2011
Emergency aid in Switzerland: «Scared away, but still here»At the beginning of February, Amnesty International Switzerland, the Swiss Refugee Council (SFH), «Solidarité sans frontières», and the Swiss Supervisory Board for Asylum and Aliens Law (Schweizerische Beobachtungsstelle f&u...
18.12.2008
Failed Asylum Seekers Trying to Survive on Emergency Aid
Since 1 January 2008 the so-called emergency aid for asylum seekers is no longer only applied to asylum seekers whose applications have not been given close examinations, but has been extended to all refused asylum seekers. The emergency aid alloca...
10.09.2007
Access to emergency aid not always guaranteed
Since April 2004 asylum seekers whose application has been turned down without closer examination of their application do no longer receive welfare benefits. But, according to the Swiss Constitutions, all cantons must offer emergency aid to anyone ...
