22/09/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
With the world’s lowest fertility and most ageing population, the countries of the Council of Europe need to develop “migration policies oriented towards the future, that attract qualified migrants”, the committee said.
22/06/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
On 22 June, the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination and the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons held a joint hearing on discrimination and violence against refugee women.
20/06/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
In a statement, the committee called upon member States to show more solidarity and humanity in dealing with refugees and to ensure adequate reception facilities and access to an effective asylum procedure.
08/06/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
A seminar, in the framework of the Parliamentary Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children, will take place on 16 June in Bern, on “Promoting alternatives to the immigration detention of children in Switzerland”.
03/06/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Presenting her report, Tineke Strik said that "the EU, supposedly based on solidarity, co-operation and respect for human rights and the rule of law, has failed to provide adequate support to Greece".
30/05/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Tineke Strik, in the context of her report on refugees at risk in Greece, visited the reception centres (Sindos, Oreokastro and Softex) in Thessaloniki to which refugees and migrants have been transferred from Idomeni.
22/03/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Europe has so far failed to find a proper, sustainable response to the refugee and migration crisis in the Western Balkans. Mutual trust and confidence have been undermined by unilateral actions, said the committee, meeting in Tbilisi.
22/03/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Those fleeing conflict in Syria are entitled to international protection which is best provided in countries close to home. These neighbouring countries cannot provide that protection without extensive external support.
22/03/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
The committee adopted a text on the humanitarian concerns as regards the captured people in Ukraine, in which it asked the Russian Federation to release Ms Savchenko and other illegally detained Ukrainian prisoners.
22/03/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
In the light of the growing number of acts of violence against migrants in Europe, the committee proposed a package of legislative, victim support and preventive measures, on the ground that these groups should receive protection.
05/02/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Annette Groth, who is preparing a report on a stronger European response to the Syrian refugees crisis for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, is to visit Jordan and Lebanon from 8 to 13 February.
27/01/2016 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
"The continuing detention by the Russian Federation of Nadiia Savchenko, Ukrainian parliamentarian and member of the Migration, Committee, constitutes a flagrant violation of human rights and a serious case of political persecution”.