The Council of Europe is going to launch a new HELP training course for legal professionals working with refugee and migrant children. The course will contain 7 modules: Introduction of the International and European legal Framework; Child-Friendly Procedures; Alternatives to detention; Family Reunification; Social Rights and Integration; and Guardianship and Age assessment. In preparation of the course, a HELP Training-of-Trainers (ToT) session was organised on 24-25 May 2018. Twenty-two judges and lawyers from 11 European countries participated in the training which aimed at equipping them with the necessary practical skills to effectively implement HELP online courses in their countries of origin. Participants who will complete the final ToT assignments will be certified as HELP tutors. The training session was opened by Tomáš Boček, the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees, and Eva Pastrana, Head of HELP Unit. This course was developed as follow-up to the country reports of the Special Representative and his Thematic Report on migrant and refugee children. It is equally an important contribution to the implementation of the Action Plan on protecting refugee and migrant children in Europe. The course will also be open to other professionals working with children in migration and it will be ready this summer. The course is scheduled to be adapted for Turkish, Spanish, Italian and Greek national systems and translated into those languages. All HELP training courses are based on the Council of Europe HELP Programme and the HELP training methodology.
Newsletter - June 2018
Mandat
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.
- Global Compacts, visit to Russia, Call for tenders and publication of expert Opinion on Montenegro
- Recent migration-related case-law
- Decision on France´s treatment of unaccompanied foreign minors
- Commissioner calls on Hungary to drop the planned bill restricting NGOs work on assisting migrants
- CPT published its preliminary observations on immigration detention establishments in Greece
- 10th anniversary of the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
- New study on information children receive about migration
- Round table on alternatives to detention of migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees
- New HELP course on refugee and migrant children
- CEB to finance new hospital in Turkey
- Policy Lab on inclusive integration