Statement from Flemish universities on hunger strike by sans-papiers
The medical and humanitarian urgency is particularly great. The Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), as the umbrella organisation for the five Flemish universities, is calling on the government to do everything in its power to find a humane solution to this situation. VLIR also urges the activists to end their hunger strike.
VLIR is calling on the Flemish universities to examine the underlying problems within their core responsibilities of education and research and, where possible, to help find structural solutions.
Contact via spokesperson
Luc Sels, president VLIR
Koen Verlaeckt, secretary-general VLIR