Newsletter January 2024
SRSG publishes report on fact-finding mission to Bulgaria; meets EUAA/FRONTEX delegation
On 30 January, the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees (SRSG), Leyla Kayacik, presented to the Committee of Ministers a report of her fact-finding mission to Bulgaria, which took place from 11 to 14 September 2023. In the report, the SRSG examines the human...
Photo exhibition “Beyond borders: Ukraine’s untold stories” opened in Strasbourg
A photographic exhibition depicting the suffering of people displaced from Ukraine by the ongoing full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation, entitled “Beyond borders: Ukraine’s untold stories” was inaugurated in the Council of Europe’s headquarters on 25 January, in the margins of the...
Situation of the children of Ukraine: PACE calls for urgent measures and international co-operation
Following an urgent debate on 25 January, PACE unanimously adopted a resolution based on the report by Olena Khomenko (Ukraine, EC/DA) underscoring the urgent need to address the situation and fate of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred and deported to the temporarily occupied territories of...
In few areas erosion of rule of law more visible than in approach to migration management, says Commissioner Mijatović presenting her annual report
“The intensification of challenges to the protection of human rights cannot be an excuse for giving up. Rather, the moment calls for a renewed commitment to the principles and standards for which our Organisation stands”, said the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović,...
ECtHR rules on several migration-related cases
In its ruling in the case of Alkhatib and Others v. Greece, handed down on 16 January 2024, the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 2 (right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights under its procedural head, and a violation of...