Ahead of Universal Children’s Day on 20 November 2016, PICUM launches a collection of testimonies*, which highlights the challenges faced by children and young people considered irregular or [...]
BRUSSELS, 15 December 2016 – Ahead of International Migrants Day, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) and Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) Network join [...]
Get involved in a joint PICUM-WAVE initiative to improve access to services for undocumented survivors of violence On the occasion of International Migrants’ Day, the Platform for International [...]
The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), today warned that current EU migration policy focusing increasingly on deportations of irregular migrants, threatens [...]
EU institutions and member states must do more to protect refugee and migrant children, a statement now signed by 84 agencies including PICUM said today to mark the opening of the 10th European [...]
Following the agreement between the EU and the Afghan government “Joint Way Forward on migration issues between Afghanistan and the EU”, the European Parliament will discuss commitments and its [...]
At the upcoming European Council on 20-21 October, European Union (EU) leaders will discuss the latest developments and progress on the EU comprehensive approach to migration. This discussion [...]
(22/9/2016, BRUSSELS, BERN, WARSAW) UNI Europa, Unia, OPZZ, and PICUM welcome the European Economic and Social Committee (ESSC) opinion on the rights of live-in care workers in light of [...]
The EU Alliance for Investing in Children welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for a European Pillar of Social Rights, and its aspiration to achieve a “social triple-A rating” by [...]
The UN General Assembly hosts a high-level summit on 19 September 2016 in New York to address large movements of refugees and migrants, with the aim of bringing countries together behind a more [...]
A group of 177 other civil society organisations and trade unions, including PICUM, published a joint statement on 12 September 2016 calling for a Europe which is inclusive, open, just, [...]
The Inter-Agency Working Group to End Child Immigration Detention has published a brochure outlining the use of immigration detention of children, the harmful impacts it has on children, the [...]
Several PICUM members have recently been recognised for their work through awards. Yonous Muhammadi, President of the Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR), received the Alison Des Forges Award [...]
27 June 2016 – The European Union is set to open a dark chapter in its history unless it rejects the European Commission’s proposal on migration, a coalition of more than 130 NGOs warned on [...]
On June 17 2016, The EU Alliance on Investing in Children released a joint statement welcoming the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumers Affairs (EPSCO) Council Conclusions on [...]
On the occasion of its Annual General Assembly on 10 June 2016, PICUM published its Annual Report for the year 2015. The report provides an overview of major achievements over the course of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
