BRUSSELS, 15 JUNE 2018 – Across Europe, many individuals and families rely on support to carry out essential domestic and care work, to look after children, clean or care for an elderly [...]
04 May 2018 – The new Hungarian parliament which will first assemble on 8 May is set to vote on draconian and regressive legislation which could arbitrarily restrict fundamental rights and [...]
On the occasion of International Workers’ Day, PICUM and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) issue their leaflet supporting trade unions to promote undocumented workers’ rights in [...]
Joint NGO Statement In the beginning of May, the European Commission will publish its Communication for the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). The initial plans of the European [...]
PICUM has launched a new manual on regularisations for children, young people and families which has been prepared by – and for – organisations working on advocating for mechanisms to [...]
Human rights defender Andy Hall has been sentenced by the Prakanong Court in Bangkok, to pay a fine of 10 million baht (€ 260,000) in damages to the American company Natural Fruit Ltd. He also [...]
PICUM along with a number of other civil society organisations and UN agencies, urges the EU to exempt all children, no matter what their age, from all forms of coercion in the EURODAC [...]
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2018, PICUM has published a new fact sheet on the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic [...]
On 14 and 15 December EU Heads of State are expected to discuss the internal and external dimension of the EU’s migration policy. Instead of proposing policies that represent only the lowest [...]
Two UN Committees have issued authoritative guidance on the need for comprehensive and rights-based policies for all children, regardless of their migration or residence status – across [...]
PICUM and other members of the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts, UN agencies and bodies, global, European and national organisations, welcome the European Commission’s [...]
Initiated by the The Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRs), several migrants’ rights and women’s rights organisations in the UK have launched a new campaign to improve access [...]
The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) in cooperation with the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe organises a [...]
In a press release from 20 September 2017, the Sudan Action Group has called on the Belgian government to provide the appropriate and needed protection for the Sudanese migrants and to step back [...]
FRANCAIS, ESPANOL, DEUTSCH, ITALIANO BRUSSELS, 4 SEPTEMBER 2017 – As students begin the new school year across Europe, undocumented migrant children are often still excluded from going to school [...]
PICUM together with other organisations has released a statement ahead of the European Council meeting which takes place in Brussels from 22 to 23 June 2017. In the last few years, migration has [...]
Commission must now transform words into action, say organisations The EU Commission’s new policy guidelines, which provide concrete actions to protect all migrant and refugee children in Europe, [...]
BRUSSELS, 6 April 2017 – Ahead of World Health Day, PICUM highlights in a new report how cities across Europe help provide access to health care for all migrants in their communities who are shut [...]