On 14 June 2019, a delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will visit Cyprus and particularly the shelter for unaccompanied minors “Home for Hope.” The visit is organised by the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons in the framework of the Parliamentary Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children.
On 24-28 June 2019, during the Assembly’s summer part-session, the PACE Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children will hold its final conference on 26 June 2019 from 13h to 15h. The conference will sum up the work done by the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons and the Council of Europe Children's Rights Division in the framework of the Parliamentary Campaign since its launch in April 2015.
Also during the PACE part-session, the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons will consider two reports for adoption, on “A legal status for “climate refugees”” (rapporteur Ms Marie-Christine Verdier-Jouclas, France, NR), and on “Labour migration from Eastern Europe and its impact on socio-demographic processes in these countries” (rapporteur Mr Ionut-Marian Stroe, Romania, EPP/CD). An exchange of views will be held on the “Role of parliaments in implementing the United Nations global compacts for migrants and refugees” (rapporteur Ms Stella Kyriakides, Cyprus, EPP/CD). The Committee will also hold a follow-up hearing to the report and Resolution 2214 (2018) on “Humanitarian needs and rights of internally displaced persons in Europe” (rapporteur Mr Kilion Munyama, Poland, EPP/CD), as the situation of IDPs in member States remains a matter of serious concern. Furthermore, the draft resolutions “Stop violence and exploitation of migrant children” (rapporteur Ms Rósa Björk Brynjólfsdóttir, Iceland, UEL) and “Pushback action by member States” (rapporteur Ms Tineke Strik, Netherlands, SOC) will be debated by the Assembly in plenary. On 27 June, the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons and the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination will hold a joint meeting on concerted action against human trafficking and modern forms of slavery affecting migrants and refugees.
On 10 June 2019, the Parliamentary Network on Diaspora Policies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held its Annual Diaspora Forum in Istanbul, focusing on the democratic participation of diaspora. During the event, outstanding contributions of European diaspora associations were recognised and celebrated through the announcement of the 2019 winner of the European Diaspora Prize. The meetings of the sub-committees on integration and on diasporas were also held in the framework of the Forum.