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20 NGOs call the EU Member States and the European Commission to safeguard family life of migrants and refugees
Today, on the International Day of Families, we, the undersigned organisations, call on the European Commission and EU Member States to guarantee the effective right to family life and family reunification for all migrants and beneficiaries of international protection. It is in the interest of Member States to harmonize practices and legislation in the field of family reunification. We remind that Member States have the obligation to properly implement the EU Family Reunification Directive and to remove the many legal and practical obstacles to family reunion that exist today.
While all Member States could improve their family reunification practices...read more
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The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission are entering a decisive stage in the negotiations on the Commission proposals recasting the Directive laying down standards for the reception of asylum seekers and the Dublin Regulation. An important part of these proposals deals with the detention of asylum seekers during the examination of their asylum application and during Dublin procedures and includes provisions with regard to grounds of detention, procedural safeguards, detention conditions and detention of vulnerable asylum seekers, including children.
The importance of this standard-setting exercise at EU level cannot be overstated also in light of its likely repercussions on detention practices in other regions of the world. Today, 166 organisations call on the EU institutions to seize this opportunity to adopt standards that fully endorse....read more
On behalf of 166 organisations, Amnesty International and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) submitted an appeal to the negotiators….
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Background
Refugee resettlement offers long-term protection to the world’s most vulnerable refugees. It is understood as a process by which refugees who fled their country of origin and have found initial, but neither sufficient nor permanent protection in a second country, are resettled to a third country in which they find permanent protection. It is often the only hope for refugees who would be in danger of being sent back to torture and abuse or risk spending the rest of their lives in unbearable conditions without any future perspectives. Resettlement often does not only help those refugees resettled, but is beneficial for other refugees. This is for example the case when an offer of a substantial number of resettlement places encourages...read more
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A Roma Rap
...produced in the Netherlands for the International Day Against Racism, 21 March 2012
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Tens of thousands persons every year find themselves trafficked into forced labour in Europe, according to estimates in the EU Member States, with exploitation happening mainly in the areas of construction, agriculture or domestic services. Against this background, CCME and its partner’s organisations in four European countries have launched on 15 March 2012 a series of video spots, asking EU citizens to “open your eyes” and help in identifying trafficked persons. The video spot is part of the MIRROR project and can be accessed with the following link (English, Italian, Spanish and Romanian).
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Subject: Major concerns of the EPR legal service relating to the implementation of Asylum Transitory Regime in Greece.
The Ecumenical Refugee Program (ERP), is a special service of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece that provides assistance to refugees and asylum seekers. The program runs different projects that have been financed by various sources, including UNHRC, The European Commission, the European Refugee Fund (during the last 6 years until today) etc. The ERP primarily provides legal assistance and representation to asylum seekers and refugees and is one of the main Organizations in this field in Athens, namely an area that receives the largest numbers of aliens in need of International Protection. Since March 2011, ERP is an implementing partner of UNHRC within the Asylum Reform Project, for legal assistance and representation to asylum seekers and refugees in Greece...
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February 2012
Caritas Europa, CCME, COMECE, Eurodiaconia, ICMC, JRS-Europe - Jesuit Refugee service Europe, and QCEA submit:
Comments on the European Commission´s Green Paper on the right of family reunification of third-country nationals living in the European Union
Our organisations represent Churches throughout Europe – Anglican, Orthodox, Protestant and Roman Catholic – as well as Christian agencies particularly concerned with migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. As Christian organisations we are deeply committed to the inviolable dignity of the human person created in the image of God, the freedom of every human being, as well as to the common good, global solidarity and the promotion of a society that welcomes strangers...
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Study by Lilian Tsourdi
The purpose of this study is to present a concise overview of the current situation in Europe concerning the rights of residence of legally staying or legally present aliens. The study thus considers the long-term residence rights not only of migrant workers but also of other categories of aliens such as refugees, beneficiaries of international protection, beneficiaries of complementary protection according to national law, as well as non-deportable aliens who have received a national “toleration” status. The study..read more.
An ecumenical contribution of European Churches and diaconal organisations to the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies
On the invitation by the Reformed Church in Hungary on 14 and 15th February 2011, members from Eurodiaconia1 and the Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) held a joint consultation in the Synod office of the Reformed Church in Hungary to discuss the proposed EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies. The aim of this meeting was to develop a contribution to the proposal for an EU strategy for consideration by the Hungarian Presidency and the European Commission’s Roma Task Force....read more...
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