On 23 January 2018, during the winter part-session of the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) of the Council of Europe, and in the framework of the PACE Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children, the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaces Persons will organise a round table on the implementation of alternatives to immigration detention of children, with the participation of representatives of national authorities. A photo exhibition on Campaign events 2015-2017 will also be shown during the winter part-session.

Also in the framework of the PACE Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children, the Arabic version of the Guide for parliamentarians “Visiting places where children are deprived of their liberty as a result of immigration procedures” is now published.

On 8 February in Rabat, Morocco, the first regional seminar following the success of the launching conference of the Parliamentary Network on Diaspora Policy in Lisbon in September 2017, will take place, at the invitation of the Moroccan Parliament.