29/03/2004 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
At the end of the Euro-Mexican Forum on Migration, organised in Mexico on 29 and 30 March, the members of the Mexican Senate and the members of the Assembly Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population adopted the Sonora declaration. They agreed to submit new initiatives to deal with the situation of migrants. They regretted the lack of respect of human rights of migrants, an issue where insufficient efforts had been made to date. They also stressed the importance of attempting to protect migrants’ physical integrity and to prevent the death of migrants who attempt to illegally cross the United States border, as well as the death of those who illegally try to enter European territory. It was considered timely to convene a Second Euro-Mexican Forum on Migration, which this time, is to be held in Europe, and to invite other countries of the Americas that face this problem, to participate.
12/03/2004 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
A its meeting in Paris on 10 March, the Migration Committee approved a report on “a European migration observatory/agency” – due for debate in the Assembly’s April session – and one on “the situation of refugees and displaced persons in the Russian Federation and other selected CIS countries”, both by Tadeusz Iwiński (Poland, SOC). The committee also approved a report on “human mobility and the right to family reunion” by Rosmarie Zapfl-Helbling (Switzerland, EPP/CD).
05/03/2004 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Migration Committee is due to approve on 10 March, in Paris, a report on “a European migration observatory/agency” – due for debate in the Assembly’s April session – and one on “the situation of refugees and displaced persons in the Russian Federation and other selected CIS countries”, both by Tadeusz Iwiński (Poland, SOC). The committee may also approve a report on “human mobility and the right to family reunion” by Rosmarie Zapfl-Helbling (Switzerland, EPP/CD). A new ad hoc sub-committee on the humanitarian situation of displaced persons in Chechnya meets for the first time to consider its work programme – including the possible co-organising, in co-operation with the Russian State Duma and Federation Council, of a Round Table on this subject. The Sub-Committees on Refugees, on Migration and on Population also meet to elect their chairs and to consider their future work.
29/01/2004 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The European Population Committee will today present (2 p.m.) to the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population its Demographic Yearbook 2002-2003 covering all 45 member states and one European non-member country (Belarus). According to the yearbook, in all European countries, except Turkey, the total fertility rate is currently below replacement level. It shows a widespread decline in the number of marriages and the appearance of other forms of union, particularly cohabitation.