Migrant domestic workers denounce gendered violence and labor exploitation

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...

Several hundred supporters marched from the Beguinage church to the ULB and VUB sites, backing the hunger strikers’ regularisation demands. The coalition included migrant-led groups, unions, students,...

After 60 days of hunger strike and the final days of a thirst strike, organisers announced a temporary suspension following talks. They said no substantive concessions had been validated; the move...

Around 250 undocumented people occupied the vacant former KBC headquarters in Molenbeek, naming the initiative Occupation Zone Neutre. The collective demanded residence documents and legal work,...

The Coordination des Sans-Papiers, Sans-Papiers TV and partner organisations called a national demonstration demanding clear legal criteria based on durable ties, work, inability to return safely...

After the former KBC occupation faced eviction, residents and supporters established a tent camp at Porte de Ninove. The collective linked housing with migration policy and criticised unequal...