03/08/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
The call for nominations for the 2018 European Diaspora Prize will be closed on 15 August next. The European Diaspora Prize rewards every year the action of a outstanding diaspora association.
26/07/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
I welcome the very humane approach towards the care of migrant children in SOS Children’s Villages in Greece, said Pierre-Alain Fridez, General Rapporteur on the Parliamentary Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children.
13/07/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
The situation for asylum seekers continues to be appalling in the Moria reception and identification Centre on the island of Lesbos, which houses 7500 people at present, said Petra De Sutter who visited Athens, Kavala, Drama and Lesbos.
29/06/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
PACE rapporteurs Petra De Sutter and Domagoj Hajdukovic have jointly acknowledged the conclusions adopted last night by the EU Council on migration and sea rescue.
20/06/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
"The world’s refugees deserve our help, yet once again Europe is failing to find a united humanitarian response", the Chair of the Committee on Migration said today on the occasion of the World Refugee Day.
11/06/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Doris Fiala, Chairperson of the Migration Committee, has commended Spain for its offer to open the port of Valencia to the Aquarius, now drifting in the Mediterranean sea with 629 migrants on board.
08/06/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
“I am dismayed at the Turkish authorities’ announcement that its readmission agreement with Greece has been suspended, following the release from custody in Greece of Turkish soldiers seeking asylum in Greece".
04/06/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
At the end of a fact-finding visit to Ankara, Istanbul and Kirklareli, PACE rapporteur Tineke Strik has praised Turkey’s great efforts to manage the 3.6 million migrants in the country.
04/06/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
The committee has said that greater financial support from the international community for refugees in the countries neighbouring Syria is “indispensable”, while calling on these countries to maintain an “open-door” policy.
04/06/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Meeting today in Paris, the Migration Committee has called on Council of Europe member States to allow applications for asylum from outside the country “as an exceptional measure on humanitarian grounds”.
04/06/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
The committee has urged the EU or individual states making agreements with third countries for “external” border control or asylum processing to ensure that they guarantee human rights.
23/05/2018 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Egidijus Vareikis, rapporteur on the humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine, has called for the release of Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov, currently detained in Russia after his conviction on terrorist charges.