The Greens – European Free Alliance will host a conference on 31 May 2016, entitled “Overcoming legal barriers: A Green Seminar on Migration.” When: 31 May 2016, 12:30 to 15:00 Where: European [...]
BRUSSELS, 29 April 2016 – Ahead of International Labour Day, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) urges the EU and governments to enforce labour rights for [...]
By Pauline Chomel (PICUM intern), And Lilana Keith (PICUM Advocacy Officer). What are the daily realities of undocumented migrant youth coming of age? What challenges do their face in their [...]
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BRUSSELS, 7 April 2016 – On the occasion of World Health Day, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) urges governments to change legislation and [...]
This is a compilation of key news and developments concerning undocumented migrants for the first quarter of the year 2016. The PICUM Quarterly is available in: ENGLISH – PICUM QUARTERLY [...]
On the occasion of the International Day to Eliminate Racial Discrimination, a group of Greek civil society organisations supported by several European NGO networks organises a march in Athens to [...]
Dear President Tusk, I am writing to you as the representative of over 140 organisations – active in preventing discrimination, exploitation and violence against undocumented migrants in more [...]
This International Women’s Day, March 8th, is celebrated during a period of intense global movement of migrants and refugees — and corresponding levels of racial and xenophobic hostility as well [...]
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By Maria Giovanna Manieri, PICUM Programme Officer. PICUM held the fourth meeting of its Task Force on Legal Strategies in Brussels on 3 December 2015. At the meeting, participants were asked to [...]
Below you find the PICUM Quarterly with news for the period of October to December 2015. It provides an outline of key developments and updates on the situation of undocumented migrants in Europe [...]
By Michele LeVoy, PICUM Director. Dear colleagues and friends, Today we commemorate International Migrants’ Day, and at the same time, a year comes to an end in which irregular migration has [...]
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The EU has set itself social targets through the Europe2020 Strategy including investment in employment and education, improved social inclusion and substantial reduction of poverty. Migrants, [...]
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By Don Flynn, Director Migrants’ Rights Network and PICUM Chair. This blog was first published by Migrants’ Rights Network on 2 November 2015. Victims of exploitative employers or [...]
BRUSSELS, 16 November 2015 – On the occasion of the deadline for EU member states to transpose the EU Victims’ Directive*, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented [...]
PICUM has published a Guide to the EU Victims’ Directive together with a toolkit in English, French and Spanish with resources for members and partners, to inform and to inspire action to [...]
Over the past few months, several European Council as well as Justice and Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs Council meetings have been convened to discuss and develop immediate responses and [...]
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY—Meeting in Istanbul on the eve of the intergovernmental Global Forum on Migration and Development, the Women and Global Migration Working Group (WGMWG) will urge greater [...]
By Elisabeth Schmidt-Hieber, PICUM Communications Officer, And Lilana Keith, PICUM Interim Programmes Director. This blog was first published by La Strada International, Newsletter Issue 38, [...]
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, 2 October 2015 – As Germany has been cast in a favourable light in recent weeks on the EU level due to its increased commitment to welcome migrants and refugees seeking [...]
Below you find the PICUM Quarterly with news for the period of July to September 2015. It provides an outline of key developments and updates on the situation of undocumented migrants in Europe [...]
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BRUSSELS, 11 September 2015 – On the occasion of the extraordinary Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting taking place in Brussels on 14 September, where ministers will discuss measures [...]
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) released its new report “Cost of exclusion from healthcare – The case of migrants in an irregular situation” on 3 September 2015. The report [...]
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By Edel McGinley, Director of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) and member of the board of PICUM. This article first appeared in the Irish Examiner on 24 August 2015 Making the hazardous [...]
By Elisabeth Schmidt-Hieber, PICUM Communications Officer. Images of migrants sleeping in tents alongside an imposing line of police cars in Calais, France; an airport security x-ray in Ceuta [...]
By Cécilia Rolland, And Kadri Soova. Following the launch of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) report “Severe labour exploitation: workers moving within or into the European Union. [...]
As a member of the Social Platform, PICUM signed on to a letter on 9 July 2015 addressed to heads of states and governments, the President of the European Council, the Presidents of the European [...]
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By Lilana Keith, PICUM And Ewout van Ginneken, Berlin University of Technology. This article was first published by BMJ on 16 June 2015. The shocking loss of life among migrants crossing the [...]
PICUM published its leaflet advocating to end the use of the term ‘illegal migrant’ in French, German and Spanish. The leaflet is the key resource of PICUM’s ‘Words Matter’ campaign and provides [...]
Below you find the PICUM Quarterly with news concerning undocumented migrants from across Europe and beyond for the period of April to June 2015. The PICUM Quarterly is available in: ENGLISH [...]
Ahead of the meeting of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) on 19 June in Luxembourg, a group of organisations including Doctors of the World – Médecins du [...]
PICUM published its Annual Report 2014 on the occasion of the Annual General Assembly on 13 June 2015 in Brussels. Major highlights of PICUM’s work in 2014 included the PICUM Director, Michele [...]
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The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) launched the report “Severe labour exploitation: workers moving within or into the European Union. States’ obligations and victims’ rights” on 2 June [...]
KNOMAD’s Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Migrant Rights and Social Aspects of Migration has published a paper entitled ‘Human Rights Indicators for Migrants and their Families’, authored by Pablo [...]
On the occasion of International Labour Day, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) calls for political commitment to effectively address the persistent and [...]
The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) is extremely concerned that a statement agreed by the European Council on 23 April in response to record numbers of [...]
By Maria Giovanna Manieri, PICUM Programme Officer. Following the unprecedented loss of an estimated 1,600 migrant lives in the Mediterranean in the first months of this year, heads of EU [...]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has launched the Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children during an event in Strasbourg from 20 to 21 April 2015. The campaign [...]
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A group of migrants’ rights organisations has launched a campaign to promote a global mobilisation to support migrants’ rights on 1 May 2015 in the context of the celebration of the [...]
The EU Alliance for Investing in Children published on 1 April 2015 its “Implementation Handbook – Putting the Investing in Children Recommendation into Practice”. The handbook which was launched [...]