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PICUM, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that aims to promote respect for the human rights of undocumented migrants within Europe. PICUM also seeks dialogue with organisations and networks with similar concerns in other parts of the world.

PICUM promotes respect for the basic social rights of undocumented migrants, such as the right to health care, the right to shelter, the right to education and training, the right to minimum subsistence, the right to family life, the right to moral and physical integrity, the right to legal aid, and the right to fair labour conditions.

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PICUM Event

Workshop - ‘Women, migration, marginality, and violence: What is needed for empowerment?’
MADRID, Spain 23rd April 2010

Addressing the situation facing undocumented migrant women residing in Europe, PICUM will host a discussion on the policies and practices that tend to push female migrants into the margins and limit their autonomy, enabling civil society actors from across Europe to share experiences and strategies for empowerment.

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PICUM and United Methodist Women launch a new report

On March 1, PICUM, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants and the United Methodist Women Immigrant/Civil Rights Initiative issued the report "The Exploitation of Undocumented Migrant Women in the Workplace," at the UN-Commission on the Status of Women in New York, as part of the "Beijing +15" review of the Beijing Platform for Action. This is the report of a global workshop organized by the two organizations during the Peoples' Global Action (PGA) on Migration, Development and Human Rights in Athens, Greece, 4th November 2009.

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PICUM News

PICUM has published a report outlining its “Main Concerns about the Fundamental Rights of Undocumented Migrants in Europe (2009)”. Based on a review of events reported in the PICUM newsletter during the year 2008, the report pieces together a year of European, national and local news issues on irregular migration to foster a better understanding of the main concerns of human rights of undocumented migrants, as well as the multifaceted ways in which civil society throughout Europe is responding to this situation of social exclusion.

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Latest Publications

Report on an Workshop organized by the European Commission, DG Research on Undocumented and irregular migration: policy developments, data and social impliations
BRUSSELS, November 2009

The objective of this workshop was to present the main results of the research projects CLANDESTINO and UWT to the policy community based in Brussels. The main topics discussed in the workshop were the CLANDESTINO database on irregular migration which presents and classifies (as low, medium or high quality) estimates and data on irregular migration in the European Union and in selected member states, the possible ways through which migrants become irregular and vice-versa, the impact of irregular migration in EU labour markets and the impact of member-states’ policies on regular and irregular migration.

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Projects

NowHereLand
The project Health Care in NowHereLand – Improving Services for Undocumented Migrants in the EU has as its aim to improve knowledge regarding service provision for undocumented migrants by collecting existing practice in health policy and health services in the EU.

NEF-EPIM
This is a three-year project sponsored by the Network of European Foundations (NEF) and the European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) which has as its goal to strengthen the fundamental rights of undocumented migrants in Europe.

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