Brazil receives refugee Palestinian

Brazil received in this friday 35 Palestinian refugee that were in encampments in the desert of Jordan, the border with the Syrian and Iraq, since the fall of the regimen of Saddam Hussein, in 2003 middle. They had left the country because victims of arrests had become would decide and suffered tortures on the part from armed military services. Four families with aged children had arrived at Brazil and: 25 people had been for São Paulo and 10 for the Great River of the South Others two groups will be brought in the next month and November, totalizing 117 people, who if had submitted the questionnaire formulated for the High Commissariat of the Nations Joined for Refugee.

The secretary-generality of the Ministry of Justice, Luiz Pablo Barreto, said that the Palestinians will have the same rights of citizenship of the Brazilians. They will receive document from identity, passport - for the case to desire to leave Brazil - and will have access to the public services of health and education.


"Brazil very receives well the foreigner who arrives here and if it feels in house. even though as for the language, therefore the Brazilian always obtains to communicate itself with the immigrant, even for mimic. Everything this makes with that they, if feeling to the will, obtain to combine themselves more easily. Here they can also exert its religious freedom and to use traditional vestments without being discriminated ", affirmed.

The representative in Brazil of the High Commissariat of the Nations Joined for Refugee, Luis Varese, in accordance with informed that she goes to be given total assistance to the Palestinians, its aptitudes. He has between them engineers, professors, and traders. The family heads go to receive a minimum wage for month, the second person of family 75% of the minimum wage and excessively 50% of the minimum wage for up to two years, depending on the adaptation on them in the work market.

The Ministry of Justice has annual budget of R$ 680 (about US$ 370) a thousand destined to the assistance the refugee. The cities for where they had been directed had been disclosed, in order to prevent public exposition. Brazil received the refugee as part from the Program of Solidary, of the Ministry of the Justice, that already took care of victims of conflicts in Colombia that they were not to adapt itself to other countries of the continent. They exist currently in the country about 3.400 refugee of 69 nationalities, the great majority of the African continent.

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