The Diplomat
A total of 100,137 people have applied for asylum in Spain between January and July this year, according to the Spanish Refugee Aid Commission (CEAR).
The NGO has also indicated that most of the applicants are from Venezuela (37.8%) and Colombia (25.8%), Peru (6.7%), Mali (6.3%) and Senegal (4.9%). In terms of their profile, 57.1% were men and 42.9% were women.
He also added that only one in ten applications for protection were successful and that almost five out of ten were refused, more than half of them (53.6%) to people from Colombia. Specifically, 47% have been denied, 13% favourable and 40% on humanitarian grounds.
‘Although conflicts have increased and have greater intensity around the world, people who flee their homes because of the situation in their countries of origin continue to face enormous difficulties in finding refuge,’ CEAR said in a message posted by Europa Press on the social network X.
In this sense, it has insisted on the need to establish legal channels ‘to avoid deaths on the routes and to replicate good practices for all nationalities, such as the Reception, Attention and Referral Centres (CREADE), which allow asylum applications to be expedited already in the territory’.
