The Council of Europe’s European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ) is preparing a draft instrument codifying existing international standards relating to conditions of administrative detention of migrants. The consultation process on the first draft of this instrument started in mid-May and will last until the end of June 2017. An invitation to comment has been posted on the CDCJ’s website. Civil society organisations and key stakeholders will be contacted directly. A hearing will take place on 22 and 23 June 2017 in Strasbourg to exchange views on the draft codifying instrument. Participants in this hearing (by invitation only) will be given the opportunity to play an active role in enriching this important instrument, which is expected to be finalised in 2018.
Newsletter - June 2017
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.
- Adoption of Council of Europe Action Plan on protecting children in migration and mission to Serbia and Hungarian transit zones
- Judgments concerning deportation of asylum-seekers
- CPT visited immigration detention facilities in Turkey and Poland
- Commissioner will publish recommendations on family reunification
- Four migration-related reports to be discussed during PACE session in June
- HELP training on asylum and the European Convention on Human Rights delivered in Serbia
- Intercultural cities: good practice now online
- International standards on conditions of administrative detention of migrants