If you enter Denmark and ask for asylum (protection from persecution, war, etc.), you can risk being sent to Rwanda to wait there while your case is processed. Denmark and Rwanda signed a cooperation agreement. Denmark will also invest 75 million DKK in green projects in Rwanda.
- The international community is not happy with Denmark’s actions regarding treatment of asylum seekers. The United Nations Refugee Agency and the European Commission criticized the agreement. Human Rights Watch also declares Rwanda “unsafe” for asylum seekers, as the country is ruled by one party that dislikes any opposing voices.
- Great Britain made a similar agreement with Rwanda to send asylum seekers there.
- Denmark plans to send 1000 asylum seekers in the next months to Rwanda. Ukrainians are exempt.
