03/06/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
The committee, meeting in Bishkek, is concerned by the growing number of cases of missing persons reported in the areas of military action in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine as well as in Crimea.
19/05/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
PACE rapporteur Irakli Chikovani will be visiting Rome on 20 May, in the context of the preparation of his report on the involvement of organised crime in migrants’ smuggling and exploitation.
15/05/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
A delegation of four members of the Assembly's Committee on Migration, together with two Dutch senators, is to make a visit on 18 May to the Schipol Detention Centre, where irregular migrants are held.
27/04/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
“The increase in the Chinese population in Europe raises human rights concerns with regard notbly to trafficking and smuggling rings and the lack of legal protection,” notes the committee.
22/04/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
PACE rapporteur Tineke Strik called on European states and organisations to make Libya a priority as they develop new policy and operational responses to the growing migration crisis in the Mediterranean.
20/04/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
We need to put an end to the detention of migrant children, which is a terrible situation, as I witnessed during a visit last year to a place of detention, said Anne Brasseur, at a ceremony to launch a Parliamentary Campaign.
16/04/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
<p>PACE will launch the Parliamentary Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children during a ceremony on 20 April. This campaign aims to encourage states to adopt alternatives to detention.</p>
15/04/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
I am deeply saddened by another incident in the series of tragedies occurring in the Mediterranean Sea, involving the capsizing of a boat full of migrants, in which over 400 people are feared to have drowned, said Daphne Dumery.
24/03/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Tineke Strik will conduct a fact finding visit to Ankara and Istanbul on 25-26 March in preparation for a report on the issue of 'countries of transit: meeting new migration and asylum challenges'.
24/03/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
At its meeting in Paris on 23 March, the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons appointed Doris Fiala (Switzerland, ALDE) as General rapporteur on Ending Immigration Detention of Children Campaign.
23/03/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
In a report adopted today on the humanitarian consequences of the actions of the terrorist group called “Islamic State”, the Committee on Migration made an urgent appeal to all member States to show solidarity and responsibility.
23/03/2015 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Concerning the continued detention of its member Nadiya Savchenko, the committee recalls that Ms Savchenko is a member of the delegation of Ukraine to the PACE and has been designated a member of the committee.