20/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
"The world’s refugees deserve our help, yet once again Europe is failing to find a united humanitarian response", the Chair of the Committee on Migration said today on the occasion of the World Refugee Day.
11/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Doris Fiala, Chairperson of the Migration Committee, has commended Spain for its offer to open the port of Valencia to the Aquarius, now drifting in the Mediterranean sea with 629 migrants on board.
08/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“I am dismayed at the Turkish authorities’ announcement that its readmission agreement with Greece has been suspended, following the release from custody in Greece of Turkish soldiers seeking asylum in Greece".
04/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
At the end of a fact-finding visit to Ankara, Istanbul and Kirklareli, PACE rapporteur Tineke Strik has praised Turkey’s great efforts to manage the 3.6 million migrants in the country.
04/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The committee has said that greater financial support from the international community for refugees in the countries neighbouring Syria is “indispensable”, while calling on these countries to maintain an “open-door” policy.
04/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Meeting today in Paris, the Migration Committee has called on Council of Europe member States to allow applications for asylum from outside the country “as an exceptional measure on humanitarian grounds”.
04/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The committee has urged the EU or individual states making agreements with third countries for “external” border control or asylum processing to ensure that they guarantee human rights.
23/05/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Egidijus Vareikis, rapporteur on the humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine, has called for the release of Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov, currently detained in Russia after his conviction on terrorist charges.
02/05/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The network on diaspora policies, in co-operation with the IOM, will organise on 18 May in Geneva its first annual Forum dedicated to "Diasporas as partners for development in the globalised world".
21/03/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Within Europe, more than four million persons are displaced inside their own country due to armed conflicts and violence. Their humanitarian needs and rights, PACE Migration Committee said, need greater attention to reduce their suffering.
21/03/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
At its meeting in Amman today, the Committee on Migration called on member States to provide primary and secondary classroom education accessible to all migrant children and free of charge.
15/02/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE’s new “Parliamentary Network on Diaspora Policies”, holding its first meeting in Rabat on 8 February, looked at how to integrate migrants in ways that were most likely to stop young people from being attracted to terror.