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Promoting rights and facilitating justice for undocumented migrants
The project is implementing a three year plan to strengthen the fundamental rights of undocumented migrants in Europe. This will be achieved by increasing the monitoring and reporting of undocumented migrants’ human rights, engaging more directly with the development of laws and practices and improving access to justice.
| Project Update March 2011 Promoting rights and facilitating justice for undocumented migrants: During the past six months, PICUM contributed its expertise on the human rights of undocumented migrants at nearly 30 conferences, seminars, advisory board meetings and other events. Some highlights: on the UN level, PICUM participated in the Global Migration Group Experts Meeting on Irregular Migration in October. PICUM produced background papers for a UNIFEM conference on women migrant workers and for the working session on irregular migration at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development; both events were held in Mexico in Fall 2010. PICUM board and staff contributed to several conferences on poverty and migration held during the Belgian presidency in 2010. In December 2010, PICUM, Médecins du Monde, European Women’s Lobby and the European Anti-Poverty Network co-organized two events for policy makers on the EU level: a stakeholders’ meeting on the EU 2020 Strategy and Undocumented Migrants, and a hearing in the European Parliament on “Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrant Women and Children.” |
- Read more about the impact of project up to May 2011 here
PICUM News
Recent Publications
Preventing Undocumented Women and Children from Accessing Healthcare
This report highlights the presentations and discourse which took place during the public hearing on 8 December 2010, in the European Parliament on “Preventing Undocumented Women and Children from Accessing Health Care: Fostering Health Inequalities in Europe”. The event was coordinated by the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN), European Women’s Lobby (EWL), Médecins du Monde (MdM), and the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM).
Undocumented Migrants Have Rights! An Overview of the International Human Rights Framework
Many people think that undocumented migrants have no rights since they are living without permission to legally reside in a country which is not their own. But it is a myth that undocumented migrants do not have any rights and therefore the purpose of this guide is to give an overview of the human rights which do in fact apply to undocumented migrants in international human rights law.
The UN Migrant Workers Convention steps towards ratification in EuropeThe following report is an overview of some of the main issues that PICUM has identified concerning the fundamental rights of undocumented migrants in 2006. This report is based upon issues
that were highlighted in PICUM’s newsletters throughout the past year, including the increasing numbers of
deaths at EU borders, the various barriers undocumented migrants face in accessing health care services, the erosion of the right to fair working conditions, and the lack of protection for undocumented children.
