02/05/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
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, Refugees and Displaced Persons
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, Refugees and Displaced Persons
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, Refugees and Displaced Persons
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.
25/01/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Noting that student mobility assists States’ education systems and economies, for the inclusion of students provides greater diversity and a broader range of skills, PACE Committee on migration urged to adopt measures to this end.
23/01/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Following the launching of the Parliamentary Network on Diaspora Policy in Lisbon in September 2017, the first regional seminar of the Network will take place, at the invitation of the Moroccan Parliament, on 8 February in Rabat.
18/12/2017 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
“This year, International Migration Day is probably the most inglorious day for Europe”, today said Petra De Sutter (Belgium, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on conditions of reception of refugees and migrants.
15/12/2017 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
On International Migrants’ Day (18 December), the committee calls on Council of Europe member States to put the humanitarian situation of migrants, refugees and IDPs back at the top of their agendas.
12/12/2017 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
The Committee is alarmed at the humanitarian situation which is the consequence of the war in Eastern Ukraine and of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. More than 4 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
30/11/2017 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
"I noted the immense efforts achieved by the Georgian Government in providing housing, welfare and social integration for the hundreds of thousands of persons displaced from the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia," said Killion Munyama.
20/11/2017 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
"Today is Universal Children’s Day, a day on which we celebrate the UN Convention which reminds us that children are first and foremost children, irrespective of the national, ethnic or any other status,” said Doris Fiala.
20/11/2017 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Petra De Sutter (Belgium, SOC) called upon the Greek Government to hear the repeated call of the NGOs and respond with a plan for this winter to relieve the Greek islands of Samos, Lesbos and Chios.