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 [...]
Borders European Policy Developments National Developments Health Care Labour and Fair Working Conditions Undocumented Women Undocumented Children and Their Families Detention and Deportation [...]
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 [...]
Below you find the PICUM Quarterly with news concerning undocumented migrants from across Europe and beyond for the period of January to March 2015. The PICUM Quarterly is available in: ENGLISH [...]
PICUM launched a new report entitled “Protecting undocumented children: Promising policies and practices from governments” on 19 March 2015. The report gathers several examples of practices by [...]
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The Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Migrants in an Irregular Situation The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of the [...]
By Maria Giovanna Manieri and Elisabeth Schmidt-Hieber. This article was first published by OpenSecurity on 23 February 2015. For as long as the humanitarian impulse to rescue the desperate and [...]
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By Eve Geddie, PICUM Programmes Director. The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) has great potential to [...]
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, visited Brussels from 2 to 5 February 2015 as follow-up of his study on the management of the external [...]
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Below you find the PICUM Quarterly with news concerning undocumented migrants from across Europe and beyond for the period of October to December 2014. The PICUM Quarterly is available in: [...]
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By Lilana Keith, PICUM Programme Officer. Focus on: children’s health, local and regional service provision and strategies for the UK How can we drive change at EU and national level so that all [...]
PICUM and the Polish organisation Stowarzyszenie Interwencji Prawnej (Association for Legal Intervention) today call on the EU to prioritise the enforcement of the labour rights of undocumented [...]
In a joint letter, a group of 26 migrants’ rights and children’s rights organisations urged Dimitris Avramopoulos, new EU Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs, to take measures [...]
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By Lilana Keith, PICUM Programme Officer. The current approach to migrant children is piecemeal, focusing on protecting certain categories of children, such as unaccompanied, asylum seeking, [...]
Dear Mr Juncker, The Child Rights Action Group (CRAG) congratulates you on your election as President of the European Commission. CRAG brings together 15 International and European organisations [...]
The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) sent the following letter to The Guardian authored by PICUM’s Director, Michele LeVoy, in response to their call [...]
This June, over 100 PICUM members came to Brussels to participate in PICUM’s 2014 Annual Workshop and General Assembly. Exploring how civil society can actively shape migration policies in the [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
BORDERS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION [...]
Below you find the PICUM Quarterly with news for the period of July to September 2014. It provides an outline of key developments and updates on the situation of undocumented migrants in Europe [...]
BORDERS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
Originally posted by Terres des Hommes on Destination Unknown, on 20 June 2014. Geneva, 19th June 2014, United Nations – “I want to continue writing, I want to travel the world, I want to go into [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
Below you find the PICUM Quarterly with news for the period of April to June 2014. It provides an outline of key developments and updates on the situation of undocumented migrants in Europe and [...]
By Mercedes Miletti. International cuisine has become very popular as recipes from different regions of the world are becoming an increasingly common part of our weekly menus. But what do we [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
By Louise Bonneau and Eve Geddie. As Europe prepares to go the polls this month to elect its representatives for the 2014-2019 European Parliament, we invite you to take a deeper look into the [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
Below you find the PICUM Quarterly with news for the period of January to March 2014. It provides an outline of key developments and updates on the situation of undocumented migrants in Europe [...]
