30/10/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Parliamentarians need to be brave in standing up for positions that may not be popular, especially when it comes to dealing with migrant issues in a time of economic crisis, the Chair of PACE’s Migration Committee has said.
29/10/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
René Rouquet will make a fact-finding visit to examine the situation of internally displaced people as part of the preparation of a report on the subject.
18/10/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Ten parliamentarians from eight different countries visited the deportation section of the prison at Zurich Airport as part of a training programme on carrying out visits to immigration detention centres.
04/10/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
PACE rapporteur on 'Lives lost in the Mediterranean', today called for an investigation into allegations that fishing or other boats failed to go to the rescue of drowning persons off the island of Lampedusa.
02/10/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Italy has shown once again that it is "ill-prepared" for a new surge of mixed migration on its coasts, according to a draft report just out from PACE’s Migration Committee.
30/08/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, Tineke Strik (Netherlands, SOC), Vice-Chairperson for the Migration Committee, stressed the importance of speeding up the solution to the problem of missing persons...
21/08/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Jean-Marie Bockel (France, EPP/CD), who is preparing a PACE report on international assistance for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq, today begins a fact-finding visit to Turkey (21 to 22 August 2013)...
19/06/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
“The drastic situation of the Syrian refugees is worsening and has reached an unprecedented level of suffering. A million and a half Syrians have fled their country; it is an humanitarian disaster", Jean-Claude Mignon said.
04/06/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
“The fundamental dilemma for Europe is the extent to which integration tests for migrants promote integration and the point at which they become a barrier and actually begin to inhibit it", Tineke Strik said.
04/06/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
At a hearing on the resettlement of refugees, Eric Voruz, rapporteur on the subject, called for increased solidarity between European countries. "We must all be more supportive towards countries such as Malta", he said.
05/04/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
The participants in the conference held in Rabat on 4 and 5 April welcomed the commitment by the Moroccan government to address the challenge represented by migration policy, in a spirit of regional solidarity.
05/04/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Adopting the report by Mikael Cederbratt (Sweden, EPP/CD) yesterday in Rabat, the PACE Migration Committee has recommended that Frontex improve respect and protection of human rights at European borders. This European Union agency’s task is to co-ordinate EU member States’ actions relating to the management and control of the EU’s external borders.