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18 March Mar 2016 1603 18 March 2016 Asylum seekers are not a "flow" nor an "invasion"
Caritas Europa launched its report “Migrants and refugees have rights! Impact of EU policies on accessing protection”. For the first time, this report brings together all aspects of migration. It looks at access to international protection, non-refoulement, family reunification, labour migration and irregular migration from a humane perspective.
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15 March Mar 2016 0939 15 March 2016 Migrants and refugees have rights!
The preview of the findings and proposals of the upcoming Caritas report "Migrants and refugees have rights! Impact of EU policies on accessing protection”.
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8 March Mar 2016 1744 08 March 2016 #IWD2016
#IWD2016: 2015 saw a lot of progress for women's rights, but we cannot afford to be complacent. The march for International Women's Day in Brussels highlighted the many reasons why: from inequality, to gender-based violence and discrimination, we still have a long way to go before we achieve gender equality. 117 years, to be precise.
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8 March Mar 2016 1142 08 March 2016 Fight the double marginalization of women with disabilities
Let's make sure women with disabilities don't remain invisible within the development field. The organization "Light for the World " attracts world’s attention on this Women's Day to the position and experiences of women with disabilities and explains how is possible to make a significant leap toward achieving their inclusion.
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7 March Mar 2016 1638 07 March 2016 It’s time to hear the stories of women and girls when shaping asylum and integration policies!
Caritas Europa’s Shannon Pfohman reminds Eu politicians that no holistic approach will be good enough unless it takes into account the specific needs of migrant women and girls. By doing this, women and girls will be able to avoid situations of vulnerability that the current policies are forcing them into.
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3 March Mar 2016 1645 03 March 2016 Different. Just like you
A handbook designed for professionals and volunteers who engage with persons with disabilities in their work. A guidance in planning and implementing activities in relation to psychosocial support and inclusion.
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2 March Mar 2016 1519 02 March 2016 Commission proposes new emergency assistance instrument for faster crisis response
As the refugee crisis continues to put pressure on many European Member States, the Commission proposes a faster way for support to be provided to tackle wide-ranging humanitarian crises within the EU
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1 March Mar 2016 1003 01 March 2016 Stranded in dire conditions without any idea of what happens next
Refugees on the Greece-Macedonia border told Amnesty International about the lack of basic services in addition to a total lack of information on where they should go next. «European countries more interested to coordinate blocking borders than to provide refugees and asylum-seekers with protection» said Giorgos Kosmopoulos, Director of AI Greece.
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26 February Feb 2016 1251 26 February 2016 Avoiding deaths at sea is not a utopia. Sant'Egidio achieves "safe passages"
On Monday the 29th, a group of a hundred refugees will reach Europe by the so-called "safe flights”. An initiative of the Community of Sant'Egidio and some Protestant churches.
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19 February Feb 2016 1842 19 February 2016 “Fire at sea”, the greatest tragedy we have ever seen in Europe
“A mass grave is being created in the Mediterranean Sea and the we are all responsible”. Gianfranco Rosi, whose films include Sacro GRA, winner of Venice’s Golden Lion in 2013, spent months living in Lampedusa to face what he has said perhaps after the Holocaust, it is one of the greatest tragedies the world has ever seen. The island is conveniently closer to Africa than Europe, around 70 miles from the Tunisian coast and further south than Malta