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La Division des migrations et des réfugiés (DMR) a été créée le 1er février 2025 au sein de la Direction Générale Droits humains et Etat de droit (DG1) pour assurer le suivi de l'action de l'ancien Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général sur les migrations et les réfugiés. Son mandat consiste notamment à proposer une assistance et un soutien aux Etats membres, en particulier par le biais du Réseau de correspondants sur les migrations, à rechercher, collecter et analyser des informations sur la situation des droits de l'homme des migrants et des réfugiés, ainsi qu'à compléter et coordonner les activités d'autres organes compétents du Conseil de l'Europe et notre action avec d'autres partenaires internationaux, notamment le HCR, l'OIM, l'UE et ses agences spécialisées, et d'autres parties prenantes nationales, régionales et internationales, y compris des organisations de la société civile. La DMR représente le Conseil de l'Europe au sein du Comité de sélection du Distinction Nansen pour les réfugiés du HCR, ainsi que dans les Forums consultatifs de Frontex et de l'EUAA.

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PACE winter session: debates on missing children and trafficking

On 30 January 2020, a report by Serap Yaşar (Turkey, NR) on Missing refugee and migrant children in Europe will be presented to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) at its winter session in Strasbourg (27-31 January 2020). It describes the situation of missing refugee and migrant children, examines the legal provisions which apply and makes recommendations aimed to better protect children and avoid disappearances. The rapporteur urges member states to ensure that undocumented child migrants are registered and identified with public authorities and that individual guardians are appointed on reception to unaccompanied child refugees or migrants, among many other recommendations. Ms Yaşar’s report will be debated jointly during the Assembly’s winter session with Vernon Coaker’s (United Kingdom, SOC) report on Concerted action against human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants, adopted by the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons on 2 December 2019, on the occasion of the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. It underlines the Council of Europe’s considerable contribution to co-operation against trafficking and its relevance in devising strategies to counter the criminal activities of which migrants are the first targets. Greater awareness, better protection of victims and effective deterrence are needed as well as closer international co-operation in order to increase the effectiveness of action against human trafficking.

Committee hearings during the session include an exchange of views with the newly-appointed Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees, Drahoslav Štefánek and a hearing with the chair of the Mexican delegation to PACE on the situation of migrant children in Mexico.

On 16 December 2019, in Tbilisi, Georgia, the Parliamentary Network on Diaspora Policies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held a Conference on “Diasporas’ active participation in state-building processes” at the invitation of the Parliament of Georgia. Some 90 participants from non-governmental diaspora organisations, members of national parliaments, high-level government officials, experts, academics and diplomatic representatives attended the conference. 22 countries were represented from the host countries, as well as from Algeria, Armenia, Jordan, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine.

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