Undocumented residents and supporters hold an overnight vigil for equal rights

A European call for a housing-rights mobilisation on 28 March 2020 could not proceed as planned because of the pandemic. Belgian groups moved much of the action online and kept the campaign alive...

During the first COVID-19 lockdown, undocumented people held a short action at the health and migration minister’s office. They described losing income and being unable to pay rent or food, while...

About 10,000 people gathered at the Brussels Palace of Justice after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Organised by Belgian Youth Against Racism and supported by Black activists and...

Following repeated acts of protest and vandalism during the Black Lives Matter mobilisation, Antwerp and Ekeren authorities removed the Leopold II statue from Ekeren’s public square and placed it in...

Around 300 people gathered at Place du Luxembourg in Brussels to demand regularisation, denounce police violence and oppose closed detention centres. The Coordination des Sans-Papiers argued that...

The Belgian Housing Action Day network joined the Santé en lutte demonstration in Brussels, forming a housing bloc alongside health and care workers. Organisers connected the pandemic’s health...

People without papers reoccupied the church and demanded regularisation, healthcare and the right to work. Many had lived in Belgium for years, while lockdown made informal work and shelter less...

The Coordination des Sans-Papiers and Sans-Papiers TV used an open letter, petition and media work to build support for clear, permanent regularisation criteria. Sans-Papiers TV described itself as...

Around 60 Belgian collectives and organisations backed the renewed Housing Action Day call during the pandemic. The organisers planned a national demonstration alongside decentralised and online...

About 450–475 undocumented people began a hunger strike at the Beguinage church and university sites. They asked for clear and permanent regularisation criteria, an independent commission and...