Newsletter - March 2018
Mandate
The Division on Migration and Refugees (DMR) was created at the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law (DG1) on 1 February 2025 to follow-up on the action by the former Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees. Its mandate includes suggesting assistance and support to member states, particularly through the Network of Focal Points on Migration, seeking, collecting and analysing information on the human rights situation of migrants and refugees, as well as complementing and co-ordinating activities of other relevant Council of Europe bodies and our action with other international partners, notably the UNHCR, IOM, EU, and its specialised agencies, and other national, regional and international stakeholders, including civil society organisations. The DMR represents the Council of Europe in the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award Selection Committee, as well as in the Consultative Forums of Frontex and of EUAA.
On 5 March 2018, the Council of Europe´s Children’s Rights Division published a report and launched a web-page on child-friendly information for children in migration and life projects. The report is based on children’s and expert’s findings and recommendations on child-friendly information gathered at a roundtable event in November 2017. The web-page contains information, reports and other resources linked to this topic, including a short video compiling children’s views and recommendations about the information they received on their journey to and through Europe. The Children's Rights Division is preparing a handbook for professionals on communicating with children in migration and will continue supporting States to develop tools for child-friendly information and procedures under the Council of Europe Action plan on protecting refugee and migrant children (2017-2019) and the Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021).
CHILDREN´S RIGHTS DIVISION
- Diminuer la taille du texte
- Augmenter la taille du texte
- Imprimer la page
NEWSLETTER SUMMARY
- First activity report, mission to Spain and Round table tackling extremism and intolerance
- Letter to French National Assembly on asylum legislation and report on Sweden
- Child-friendly information: Launch of a web-page and a new report
- Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
- Congress to present a report on unaccompanied refugee children
- Complaint on France's treatment of unaccompanied foreign minors
- Council of Europe’s new Gender Equality Strategy includes the protection of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls
- Seminar on CPT standards related to detention conditions for refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers
- New report on the role of community media for refugees and migrants
- Intercultural city approach in the city of Osmangazi-Bursa in Turkey