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Prevention of Elder Abuse in Sint Maarten supported by European Anti-Poverty Network Netherlands.

Today June 15 all over the world countries is commemorating World Elderly Abuse Awareness Day. Many abusers are individuals in the home or family environment that put seniors to suffer from physical, verbal, emotional, financial abuse and neglect. Providing poverty pensions and social allowances under poverty level is a violation of the right of older persons to a decent standard of living. Violation of human rights of the elderly is also a form of elderly abuse. So not only individuals but also governments can be abusers of elderly who put seniors to suffer from systematic, structural, collective, financial, emotional abuse.

On June 9th a year ago, in preperation of World Elderly Abuse Awareness Day, the Sint Maarten Seniors and Pensioners Association (SMSPA) to stop the abuse of the seniors in Sint Maarten and in defense of the human rights of the seniors in Sint Maarten, handed a petition to the Council of Ministers of Sint Maarten and to the representative of the Dutch government in Sint Maarten, to equalize the old age pensions, the social allowances and all other social provisions in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, just as the social provisions on the French side of Sint Maarten are equal to the social provisions in France.

In january of this year together with the social organizations of Sint Maarten, the Parliamentarians of the countries of the Kingdom who came to meet in Sint Maarten, the Prime Minister and deputy Prime Minister of the Sint Maarten Council of Ministers, and the Dutch representative in Sint Maarten on behalf of the Kingdom Council of Ministers, all got a request from the social organizations to address the poverty in this part of the Kingdom and to put an end to the abuse that the poor and in particular the seniors of Sint Maarten have to suffer, because of the geo-political systematic structural discrimination that the Kingdom government is maintaining in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Having received a letter from Minister Spies of Interior Affairs and Kingdom relations of the Netherlands, which basically refers the social organizations to address their request to the Council of Ministers of Sint Maarten, drs Raymond Jessurun, the coordinator of the seniors organizations in the Sint Maarten Anti-Poverty Platform this week met in Amsterdam with representatives of the European Anti-Poverty Network in the Netherlands.

Information was shared of the struggle of the social organizations of Sint Maarten for equality and of the EAPN organizations for a decent standard of living for all in the Kingdom in the Netherlands.

Today we have received a letter from EAPN Netherlands in which they express their solidarity with the poor and especially with the seniors on Sint Maarten.
EAPN Netherlands has offered support and has expressed ther willingness to cooperate with the Sint Maarten Anti-Poverty Platform, to address the eradication of poverty throughout the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Together the Kingdom government and the governments of the countries in the Kingdom will be reminded to comply with the obligation to implement the non-discrimination principle as a signatory of International Human Rights Conventions and Declarations throughout the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Not only the government in the Hague but also the European Commission in Brussels will be addressed together in joint actions of the anti-poverty platforms in the Kingdom of the Netherlands:

  • to eradicate poverty in all parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • stop the discrimination of seniors and their family members in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and
  • to implement non-discrimination and equality in the social provision level throughout the Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • for old age pensions, social allowances, etc for seniors on the Dutch side of Sint Maarten to be equal as in the Netherlands, just as is the case in France and on the French side of Sint Maarten
  • to stop the violation of human rights conventions in the Kingdom of the Netherlands all human rights of elderly.

Press Release by Sint Maarten Seniors and Pensioners Association (SMSPA).

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