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High number of immigrant women mostly from non-Western countries is receiving cash welfare benefits from Danish government.Approx. 24,000 immigrant women have received cash welfare benefits for more than 10 years. Immigrant women from non-Western countries are 3.4 percent of the Danish population and are between 16 and 64 years of age.

This welcome decision must prompt the Austrian government to shake up its thinking and its laws. John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's Director for Europe and Central Asia.