Mandate

The Division on Migration and Refugees (DMR) was created at the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law (DG1) on 1 February 2025 to follow-up on the action by the former Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees. Its mandate includes suggesting assistance and support to member states, particularly through the Network of Focal Points on Migration, seeking, collecting and analysing information on the human rights situation of migrants and refugees, as well as complementing and co-ordinating activities of other relevant Council of Europe bodies and our action with other international partners, notably the UNHCR, IOM, EU, and its specialised agencies, and other national, regional and international stakeholders, including civil society organisations. The DMR represents the Council of Europe in the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award Selection Committee, as well as in the Consultative Forums of Frontex and of EUAA.

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Follow-up to the International Conference on Statelessness

From 1 to 3 December 2021, in Strasbourg, the European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ) held its 97th plenary meeting. The Committee took decisions with respect to further work or actions to be considered by the Committee regarding a wide range of topics, including, statelessness and the right to a nationality. The Committee took note of the oral information provided on the outcome of the Technical Meeting of Experts and International Conference on Statelessness and the Right to a Nationality in Europe (Strasbourg, 23-24 September 2021), organised jointly by the CDCJ and the UNHCR. It agreed to prioritise as follow-up activities on guidance on child sensitive procedures in administrative and migration law matters for stateless children or children at risk of being stateless and guidance on the establishment of nationality, in particular for children. In an interview following the international conference on statelessness, Christophe Poirel, the Director of Human Rights, outlined recent actions by the Council of Europe, as well as planned future work to address statelessness in Europe.

Furthermore, the Committee established a working group on migration (CDCJ-MIG), with the aim to assist the CDCJ in its mandate related to the elaboration of a Guide for practitioners on administrative detention of migrants to support the implementation of existing standards in this field. The CDCJ-MIG will support the work of the CDCJ by finalising, for examination and adoption by the CDCJ in December 2022, the draft Guide for practitioners, taking into account the work previously carried out by the Committee of experts on administrative detention of migrants (CJ-DAM). The working group will perform its functions and responsibilities online between February and October 2022, with a possible finalisation of the handbook for adoption by the CDCJ in December 2022.

As of 2022, Christoph Henrichs (Germany), elected Chair, with the support of the Bureau will ensure the leadership of the Committee and lead the new challenging work ahead. The 98th Plenary meeting will take place on 1-3 June 2022.

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