On 25 November 2016 the Gender Equality Unit participated in a Roundtable on Women Refugees, Migrants and Asylum-Seekers in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean: Meet the immediate emergency need and find the longer term solutions organised by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe as part of the Lisbon Forum 2016. The Roundtable included representatives from civil society and the recommendations from the Roundtable indicated the need to implement comprehensive policies and specific measures to ensure that women and girl refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers are protected and have facilitated access to the services they need, including legal support and access to justice in relevant languages.
Newsletter on migration and refugees - December 2016
newsletter summary
- CPT report on migrants’ detention in Hungary
- Judgment against Malta and roundtable on immigration
- Calais follow-up, European Forum on child rights and CEB´s 60th anniversary
- HELP organised a workshop on protection of asylum-seekers in Greece
- Migrants in limbo and Human Rights Commissioner´s 3rd quarterly report
- Lisbon Forum on migration and human rights
- #endchildsexabuseday and Lanzarote Committee
- CEB approves Germany lending project to provide housing to migrants and refugees
- PACE's visit to detention centre in Austria and other activities
- Migrant women´s access to protection and services
- Intercultural approach to engaging with religious minorities
- Convention on violence against women: first monitoring visit