Newsletter on migration and refugees - September 2016
SRSG's report on Turkey and visit to Athens following his report on Greece
“The Council of Europe should assist the Turkish authorities to develop effective policies to prevent refugee and migrant children working and to encourage their attendance at school”, says the Secretary General’s Special Representative on migration and refugees Ambassador Tomáš Boček in a report...
PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons: activities June-September 2016
The Committee’s full June session agenda included debates in plenary on “refugees at risk in Greece” and on “violence against migrants” and a joint hearing with the Equality Committee on “Discrimination against women refugees” with the participation of UNHCR, Gynaecologists without Borders, a...
Combatting transnational trafficking in human beings and supporting victims
In the current situation in which Europe is faced with an influx of refugees, it becomes increasingly important to identify victims of trafficking among asylum-seekers, including unaccompanied children. This was one of the central themes in the most recent general report of the monitoring body...
Lanzarote Committe monitoring exercise on sexual exploitation of children
On 17 June 2016 the Lanzarote Committee launched an urgent monitoring exercise aimed at collecting information on what the 41 States Parties to the Lanzarote Convention are doing to protect children affected by the refugee crisis from sexual exploitation and abuse. Findings and recommendations...
CPT visited hotspots and detention facilities in Greece
A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out an ad hoc visit to Greece from 19 to 25 July 2016. The CPT examined the situation in the Reception and Identification Centres for refugees and...
Congress to visit refugee reception centres in Greece
At the invitation of Mrs Irene Dourou, Governor of the Attica region in Greece and member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, President Jean-Claude Frécon and Congress rapporteurs will visit refugee reception sites and a logistics centre from 6-8 September...
Social innovation for refugee inclusion
The Council of Europe’s Intercultural cities network will address the potential of social innovation for refugee inclusion in an event which will take place in Brussels on 12 and 13 September. Participation is open and free of charge. The event will help: Reach an understanding of what social...
Explosion in requests for recognition of qualifications from refugees
Since 2015, the European Network of Information Centres in the European Region and the National Academic Recognition Information Centres in the European Union (ENIC-NARIC) have faced a significant increase in requests by refugees regarding the recognition of their qualifications. A specific page...
Rules on administrative detention of migrants
A committee of experts, set up under the authority of the European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ), is preparing a legal instrument codifying the existing international standards regarding the conditions of migrant detainees in closed centres, and possibly in other places or situations of...
- SRSG's report on Turkey and visit to Athens following his report on Greece
- PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons: activities June-September 2016
- Combatting transnational trafficking in human beings and supporting victims
- Lanzarote Committe monitoring exercise on sexual exploitation of children
- CPT visited hotspots and detention facilities in Greece
- Congress to visit refugee reception centres in Greece
- Social innovation for refugee inclusion
- Explosion in requests for recognition of qualifications from refugees
- Rules on administrative detention of migrants