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EDGES MAGAZINE Issue 14 |
Aug/Sept 1998 |
100,000
- 200,000 SERIOUSLY ADDICTED Government
estimates show that there are between one hundred and two hundred
thousand seriously addicted drug mis-users in this country, and many
of these do not look for or cannot currently get access to effective
treatment for their problems. Edges magazine has first hand
experience of the socially excluded drug users who are a problem to
the society in which they live. We congratulate the Government on
its desire to help drug mis-users towards a more positive lifestyle,
linking with employment, housing and education services.
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Asylum
Seekers Grow Asylum
seeker's applications to Great Britain rose by almost 4,500 last
year. This is one of the largest rises in the whole of the EU. About
35% of all applicants were from Asia and 30% from Africa and Europe.
More than 80% of Asylum seekers are refused |
GYPSIES
PERSECUTED Since
the break up of Czechoslavakia in 1993 about 100,000 Romanies are
living in Czech but they are regarded as Slovak. This group of
people are living on the fringes of Czech cities. They are exposed
to attackes from skinheads and thousands are fleeing to Canada and
Britain for refuge. In certain areas the authorities are buildinf 12
feet high walls around decaying apartment buildings in Usti and
Pilsen, walls have been built around apartment buildings, which
house 39 Gypsy families. Dimitrina Petrovia, the executive director
of the European Roma Right's Centre in Budapest states the
following. "This is pure racist segregation and it is totally
unacceptable in a civilised society." A television
documentary last year about life in Canada prompted 600 gypsies to
set off for North America; several hundred made their way to Britain |
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