The group “Right To Exist” (“Recht Op Bestaan”), who have had a protest camp in The Hague since 19/09/12, have announced four days of action. On Wednesday there will be a demo at the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs. on Thursday a demo at the CDA head office, on Friday an infostand on Spuiplein and on Saturday there will be a march under the banner “No one is illegal”.

The clamour to house Somalians, Sudanese, Ethiopians and other so-called “failed”asylum seekers currently camping in the Nieuw-West district of Amsterdam, is growing ever louder, reports Het Parool.

Around 800 people have signed an online petition calling on mayor Eberhard van der Laan and Nieuw-West council leader Achmed Baâdoud to take action.

Tomorrow the camp enters its third week and every day it gets colder and wetter. There is enough money to buy a generator to provide heat but the fire bridage are refusing permission for this.

A mayoral spokesperson Bartho Boer told Het Parool: ‘Experts from the GGD [local health authority] believe that people can still stay in the tentcamp. The campers have camp beds and sleeping bags available to them and they are not seriously sick”.

The migrant protest camps at the Koekamp in The Hague and Osdorp/Nieuw West in Amsterdam continue. Both are receving support from local residents and organisations.

Today (Tuesday 8th October) the IND delivered a letter to the Koekamp saying that only those migrants that agree to return to their home countries will be accommodated. The migrants have said that they cannot go back and they have vowed to stay on.

Amsterdam’s mayor Van der Laan has said that the camp can stay for the time being. A survey last week in Amsterdam daily Het Parool showed that a majority of the city’s residents want the city council to support the migrants who are camping.

nu.nl reports that in the first half of 2012 there 4600 asylum seekers came to the Netherlands. This is 1100 fewer than in the same period last year.

Meanwhile the number of people ‘voluntarily returning’ to their country has increased from 2050 in the first six months of 2011 to 2450 from January to July 2012.

Migrants from a number of countries have relocated the protest camp, “Camp against the cold”, from the centre of Amsterdam to a park in the north-west of the city.

According to today’s edtion of Het Parool (28/09/12) there are currently 20 migrants at the camp, including a woman who is 4 montbs pregnant. More people are expected tomorrow.

The camp is organised by “Refugees on the Street” (Vluchtelingen op Straat). You can see pictures of the camp, and read backround information, here (website in English and Dutch).

Since 19/09/12 a group of migrants have been camping in the centre of The Hague, demanding that the government gives them the right to stay in the Netherlands. The camp has coincided with the opening of the parliament for 2012-13.

Tomorrow 22/09/12 there will be a march in the city under the slogan “Geen mens is illegaal” “(“No one is illegal”).

On Sunday 16th September 16th there will be a noise protest at Rotterdam/The Hague Airport detention centre in solidarity with the 608 migrants imprisoned there. the refugees who are imprisoned simply because they don’t have the right papers.

The protest is being called by AFA Den Haag (Anti Fascist Action The Hague).

Today Thursday 6th September about 40 ‘failed’ asylum seekers from Iraq and Iran marched from an authorised protest camp in Sellingen, in the east of the Netherlands, to the offices of the IND (Immigration and Nationality Directorate) in Ter Apel. The protesters say that they cannot be returned to their countries of origin and they are demanding that the government help them.

Meanwhile another protest camp of ‘failed’ asylum seekers has been set up in the grounds of a church in central Amsterdam.

According to nu.nl, last night around 25 Somalis began a new protest camp in Ter Apel in the east of the Netherlands. The previous protest camp there was evicted by the authorities in May.

Apparently if the Somalis do not erect tents their camp cannot be evicted. The  local authority Vlagtwedde are monitoring the situation.

Yesterday evening (20/08/12) a group around 70 “failed” asylum seekers from Iraq began a protest outside the offices of the IND (Immigration and Nataionality Directorate) in Zwolle in the Netherlands. The protesters are refusing to go back to Iraq.