Human Rights First | Open Letter EAPN Italy
EU must at all costs avoid a moral defeat and put in practice its best reasons for existing: solidarity, defence of human rights and peace. Thousands of boat-people in search of…
Human Rights first!
Brussels, 5th July 2017 EU must at all costs avoid a moral defeat and put in practice its best reasons for existing: solidarity, defence of human rights and peace. Thousands…
Cilap EAPN Italy organised seminar: A day with asylum seekers | San Gimignano, 8 April 2017
In the morning seminar held in the city hall of the town of San Gimignano, the prefect of the city of Siena, the mayor, the guests of the local reception…
Refugees: MEPs demand emergency winter aid and transfers to other EU countries
EU and national authorities should provide emergency aid to help migrants and refugees to cope with freezing temperatures and snow in several parts of Europe, MEPs urged on Wednesday January…
Children cannot wait: 7 priority actions to protect all refugee and migrant children | Joint statement from 78 organisations
78 organisations active in the field of children’s rights strongly welcome that this year’s European Forum on the Rights of the Child focuses on protecting children in migration. Children represent a significant…
Task Force on Advocating for a Human Rights approach to Migration, Refugees and Asylum seekers
This Task Force comes under both Objective 1.2 and Objective 2.2 of the EAPN Strategic Plan. Objective 1.1: EAPN will work to ensure that the Europe 2020 Strategy, the Platform…
Fundamental Rights Agency report on Family Reunification
Refugee and migrant families risk being split up during the journey to the EU. Over a third of new arrivals in the past year were children, who often arrive unaccompanied…
The 2016 EESC Civil Society Prize is on Migrants
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has launched the eighth edition of its Civil Society Prize: the subject of this edition is Migrants. Europe is experiencing an unprecedented influx…
Organisations ask new EU Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs to ensure the rights of all migrant children
08/12/2014 – Welcoming Dimitris Avramopoulos in his position as new EU Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs, a group of 26 organisations, including EAPN, asked the Commissioner in a joint letter on 8 December 2014 to take measures to realise the rights of all children affected by migration.