Ahead of the Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA Council) on 21 April, Caritas Europa reiterates its opposition to the EU-Turkey Agreement reached on 18 March 2016, because it is in breach of the right to international protection. “From the first day I arrived in Greece, I ended up in the Amegdaleza detention camp. Although […]
28-29 June | Brussels, Belgium The European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) is happy to invite you to its General Assembly and Annual Conference 2016 “Innovation in European Adult Education”. On the evening of 28 June, EAEA will also award best practice projects in Adult Education and Refugees with the EAEA Grundtvig Award. […]
Mrs Jetta Klijnsma, the Netherlands’ Secretary of State for Social Affairs and Employment, promised yesterday to “work even harder to push poverty up on the EU Council agenda”, during the presentation of Caritas Europa’s new report “End poverty in Europe – Our solutions to make it happen”. “This report is very important. I am very […]
On the occasion of World Health Day, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) urges governments to change legislation and practices to ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services for all, regardless of residence status. The right to sexual and reproductive health is well established in international human rights instruments that bind […]
When my children are not there, I don’t heat my apartment. For the food, I eat less. I don’t want them to feel that I don’t have money. I tighten my belts. The hardest part is that I cannot give them what I would like to,” explained Fabrice to Secours Catholique – Caritas France, a […]
On 4 April the European Policy Center debated integration of refugees in cities. Anna Lisa Boni (Secretary-General, Eurocities) presented Eurocities’s new report, showing the leadership of many cities in coordinating responses with civil society. They promote fast-tracking children into education, providing language courses and fair living conditions. However, they struggle with lengthy application procedures and EU […]
The European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) recently ordered a study on ‘Female refugees and asylum seekers: the issue of integration’. It looks at women’s needs in relation to housing and living conditions, relevant international and European legislation, funding programmes, and policy measures. Single adult refugee women are one of the […]
It is with a great sense of loss that we as COFACE, the Confederation of Family Organisations representing Families in Europe, express our most sincere condolences to the families who have lost a loved one and those who are tending to their wounded following the terrorist attacks in Brussels. Despite the shock and horror, we […]
On 21 March Belinda Pyke, Director of Migration and Mobility in the European Commission presented their work on an EU Action Plan on the integration of third-country nationals to civil society organisations, local and regional authorities and other stakeholders. As a background Ms Pyke’s informed that four percent of the EU’s population are third country […]
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 than 30 countries – who are deeply concerned with the growing gulf between human rights and rule of law, and the migration policies and practices pursued by […]
