The number of refugees from Afghanistan still eligible for settlement in the Netherlands is no more than a couple of thousand, aid organisations have told the NRC. Several hundred police and army interpreters, aid workers and journalists plus their families are on the list, as are some 200 family members of people already going through the asylum process, the paper …
The Cabinet took action too late to help people in Afghanistan, relief organizations said. “The Netherlands has let it escalate for too long”, political advisor at the help organization, Cordaid, Paul van de Berg said. “And we really see that as something due to choices made by the Cabinet.” Both Cordaid and Vluchtelingenwerk hoped that the hundreds of Afghans who …
