05/04/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
The Migration Committee, meeting yesterday in Rabat, considers that much more needs to be done in the spirit of international co-operation and burden-sharing by the EU and its member states to assist the countries beyond their eastern borders to deal with migratory pressures.
02/04/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons will organise in Rabat on 4-5 April 2013, in co-operation with the Moroccan Parliament, a conference on the theme “How can Morocco and Europe face up to the challenges and opportunities in the field of South-North migration?”.
17/01/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon, together with a PACE sub-committee visiting Greece, have urged greater European solidarity to help Greece deal with large numbers of irregular migrants and asylum seekers entering the country.
11/01/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
In the context of the preparation of the report by Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) on “Unaccompanied migrant children: what rights at 18?”, PACE Committee on Migration is to hold a hearing on 14 January at the European Youth Centre (EYC) in Budapest, in the presence, amongst others, of the rapporteur and of young migrants as well as representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and of the EYC’s decision-making bodies.
11/01/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
The members of PACE Ad hoc Sub-Committee on the large-scale arrival of irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees on Europe's Southern shores, accompanied for part of the visit by PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon, will make a fact-finding visit to Greece from 14 to 16 January.
18/12/2012 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
“There are many faces that do not reach the limelight. Father Zerai’s is one of them,” said Giacomo Santini (Italy, EPP/CD), Chair of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, on International Migrants Day.
28/11/2012 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Four years on from the war between Georgia and Russia, a pace committee has warned against politics poisoning possibilities for progress on humanitarian issues arising from the war. In a draft resolution based on a report by Tina Acketoft (Sweden, ALDE), approved yesterday in Geneva, PACE’s Migration Committee said the humanitarian consequences of the conflict remained a major concern
16/10/2012 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Andrea Rigoni (Italy, ALDE), PACE rapporteur of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, will make a fact-finding visit to Turkey on 17-19 October 2012, in preparation for his report on “Management of mixed migration and asylum challenges beyond the European Union’s eastern border”.
12/10/2012 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
At the end of his three day visit to Rome and Sicily, the PACE rapporteur on "The arrival of mixed migratory flows to Italian coastal areas", Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EDG), met with some of the survivors of the recent boat tragedy off Lampedusa in the migrant detention centre of Contrada Milo in Trapani (Sicily).
11/10/2012 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
‘Putting people before politics’ was the theme of discussions in Moscow between Tina Acketoft (Sweden, ALDE), PACE rapporteur on “The War between Georgia and Russia: the humanitarian situation in the war-affected areas”, and Russian representatives. “I have now been able to put my message across of ‘people before politics’ in dealing with humanitarian issues in my visits to Russia and Georgia,” said the rapporteur.
08/10/2012 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Tina Acketoft (Sweden, ALDE), member of PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons will make a fact-finding visit to Moscow on 9-10 October as part of the preparation of her report on “The war between Georgia and Russia: the humanitarian situation in the war-affected areas”.
08/10/2012 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EDG), member of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a fact-finding visit first to Rome (9-10 October) then Sicily (11 October) as part of the preparation of his report on “The arrival of mixed migratory flows to Italian coastal areas”.