NGOs Reports
See the report here The world currently faces its largest global displacement crisis since World War II, with approximately 60 million people currently displaced due to conflict, persecution and untenable conditions in their home country. Whilst foreseeable, Europe is...
Moving Stories International Review of How Media Cover Migration
Download the full report here An international report on media and the global migration and refugee crisis, issued to coincide with International Migrants Day (December 18), says journalists often fail to tell the full story and routinely fall into propaganda traps...
Undocumented Migrants and the Europe 2020 Strategy
See the position paper by clicking here 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, and particularly undocumented...
AIDA report for Cyprus (2015)
See the report here The updated AIDA report on Cyprus details reforms in the asylum procedure taking effect in July 2015. A newly established Administrative Court has taken over as the first instance judicial review authority for asylum decisions. Therefore asylum...
I THOUGHT I WAS APPLYING AS A CARE GIVER
read the full report here In recent years the issues of gender and migration have received more attention from scholars, researchers and policymakers in different national contexts as well as at the EU level. Despite there being acknowledgment that gender matters, the...
Protecting undocumented children: Promising policies and practices from governments
PICUM , 19 March 2015. The report gathers several examples of practices by various levels of governments in the areas of education, health care, protection from violence, and non-detention, alongside some available data and relevant policy documents at EU level. It...
Europe’s Borderlands Violations against refugees and migrants in Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary
With few safe and legal routes into the EU, many of the thousands of refugees and migrants who have travelled the western Balkans route to Hungary find themselves trapped outside the borders of the EU in Serbia and Macedonia, without any legal protection or status....
Racist crime in the EU: increasing, under-reported, destroying lives. Until when?
Brussels, 6 May 2015 – Civil society organisations across the EU report an increase in racist crimes in 2013, in particular against Black and Asian ethnic minorities, Roma, Jews and Muslims – or those perceived as such, according to the European Network Against...
PICUM Publishes Position Paper on ‘EU Return Directive’ Following First Working Group Meeting on EU Migration Policies
Published on 28 April 2015 Following the unprecedented loss of an estimated 1,600 migrant lives in the Mediterranean in the first months of this year, heads of EU governments adopted a statement in a Special European Council meeting on 23 April 2015. The...
19.03.2014 – UNHCR – Comments on new report on Cyprus by Amnesty International – Σχόλια της Ύπατης Αρμοστείας αναφορικά με την Έκθεση της Διεθνούς Αμνηστείας για την Κύπρο
The administrative detention of asylum-seekers as presented in the new Amnesty International report on Cyprus, published yesterday, has been of concern to UNHCR and requires immediate resolution....
20.06.2013 – PICUM Report – Child poverty and well-being: Spotlight on the situation of migrant children in Cyprus and the EU
Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) in partnership with the Commissioner for Children's Rights in Cyprus, the Office of the European Parliament in Cyprus, Eurochild and KISA - Action for Equality, Support, Antiracism...
30.05.2013 – UNHCR – Civil society organisations in Cyprus are concerned about the repercussions of the financial crisis on the most vulnerable individuals in society – Οργανώσεις της κοινωνίας των πολιτών στην Κύπρο εκφράζουν ανησυχίες για τις επιπτώσεις της οικονομικής κρίσης στα πιο ευάλωτα άτομα της κοινωνίας
Ten of the main non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) in Cyprus*/ came together in a round-table meeting convened by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to discuss how to tackle the impact of the financial crisis on some of the...
