On the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, five young women, once undocumented, participated in the high-level celebration at the European Parliament on November 20. [...]
Last October, the EU institutions have resumed discussions on the new Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF) proposal, part of the wider negotiations on the next Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF [...]
On European Anti-trafficking Day, 18 October, we spoke to government representatives to the Council of Europe, about key measures to ensure access to justice for all victims of trafficking, [...]
This blog post was written by PICUM’s Communications Trainee Bettina Guigui. As a migrant working for a migrants’ rights organisation in Brussels, I am very aware of the need to include the [...]
At PICUM, we’re happy to facilitate bilateral exchanges between our members so they can learn from each other’s work to advance the rights of undocumented people locally. In this blog [...]
PICUM Advocacy Officer Alyna Smith recently took part in a webinar organised by the Women in Development Europe, WIDE+, to discuss why undocumented women are at risk of violence and what we can [...]
In 2015, countries across the world jointly adopted 17 goals to advance global sustainable development for everyone by 2030. But without concrete action from governments, undocumented migrants [...]
On the eve of the adoption of the Global Compact on Migration, over 80 migrant rights advocate members of the Global Coalition on Migration (GCM) from around the world, including PICUM, are [...]
A new discussion brief, entitled ‘Crackdown on NGOs assisting refugees and other migrants’ published by ReSOMA platform on 28 November sheds light on how EU laws, policies and operational [...]
By Pablo Gómez-Escolar Arias, PICUM Advocacy Trainee. Pour lire le texte en français: cliquez ici The immigration detention of children is an issue that is increasingly in the public [...]
Forms of hate against migrants as well as their supporters has increasingly manifested itself in segments of society and there is a worrisome trend of growing acceptance. While some PICUM’s [...]
Pour lire le texte en français: cliquez ici Para leer la versión en español, haga clic aquí BRUSSELS, 3 SEPTEMBER 2018 – Not all children begin the new school year with their classmates and [...]
The EU Alliance for Investing in Children, of which PICUM is a partner, has published recommendations on how the EU’s post-2020 budget should be used to fight child poverty and social exclusion. [...]
This week, the EU Rights Clinic, the European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) and 80 signatories including PICUM members submitted a petition to the European Parliament. The petition calls for [...]
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution to end the criminalization and punishment of organisations and individuals who assist migrants in need. The new guidelines for EU member states to [...]
BRUSSELS, 15 JUNE 2018 – Across Europe, many individuals and families rely on support to carry out essential domestic and care work, to look after children, clean or care for an elderly [...]
04 May 2018 – The new Hungarian parliament which will first assemble on 8 May is set to vote on draconian and regressive legislation which could arbitrarily restrict fundamental rights and [...]
On the occasion of International Workers’ Day, PICUM and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) issue their leaflet supporting trade unions to promote undocumented workers’ rights in [...]
Joint NGO Statement In the beginning of May, the European Commission will publish its Communication for the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). The initial plans of the European [...]
PICUM has launched a new manual on regularisations for children, young people and families which has been prepared by – and for – organisations working on advocating for mechanisms to [...]
Human rights defender Andy Hall has been sentenced by the Prakanong Court in Bangkok, to pay a fine of 10 million baht (€ 260,000) in damages to the American company Natural Fruit Ltd. He also [...]
PICUM along with a number of other civil society organisations and UN agencies, urges the EU to exempt all children, no matter what their age, from all forms of coercion in the EURODAC [...]
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2018, PICUM has published a new fact sheet on the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic [...]
By Camille Van Durme, PICUM Intern. 19 December 2017 In December, several news outlets reported that a pregnant woman who went to the police in the UK to report having been raped was brought to a [...]
On 14 and 15 December EU Heads of State are expected to discuss the internal and external dimension of the EU’s migration policy. Instead of proposing policies that represent only the lowest [...]
By Kadri Soova, PICUM Advocacy Officer and Alyna Smith, PICUM Advocacy Officer Over the past years, political pressure to detain and deport more migrants has led to more case law that challenges [...]
This is a compilation of key news and developments concerning undocumented migrants for the second quarter of the year 2017. The PICUM Quarterly is available in: ENGLISH – PICUM QUARTERLY [...]
Two UN Committees have issued authoritative guidance on the need for comprehensive and rights-based policies for all children, regardless of their migration or residence status – across [...]
