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A Conference on New European Migration Policies at the European Parliament
Following the recent events of Lampedusa (Sicily, Italy), many individuals and organizations are now demanding a more incisive role of the European institutions in order to rethink asylum and to prevent the inhuman treatment of people across frontiers to become a routine.
As the UNHCR, the Council of Europe and the European Parliament itself have already denounced, inhuman treatments and recurrent human rights violations are everyday business in the administrative detention centres (i.e., the so-called “CIE centres”).
On Thursday 17th October 2013 at the European Parliament in Brussels a conference will be held with the participation of the Italian Ministry for Integration Cécile Kyenge Kashetu, several MEPs amongst whom are Hélène Flautre and Marie-Christine Vergiat, and the European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström (invited). Representatives of the civil society organizations, which are involved in campaign against administrative detention in France, Hungary, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, are also taking part in the conference.
The conference has been organized by European Alternatives, a transnational NGO which has been actively involved in monitoring and denouncing the administrative detention centres. European Alternatives has also promoted a discussion at the institutional level on the possibilities for alternative measures to the administrative detention and on the development of new European migration policies.
The issue of administrative detention is now considered with particular attention and involvement from the European citizens in view of the revision of the Directive 2008/115/CE (i.e., the so called “Returns Directive”) and of 2014 European Parliament election.
Information
Conference at the European Parliament
17th October, Room P5B001, 9.00 AM
Agenda: http://on.fb.me/GDwxpV
Press Conference (EN-FR-IT)
17th October, Room ASP 5G02, 2.30 PM
Press Contacts
Anna Lodeserto, a.lodeserto@euroalter.com – +39 345 32 31 023
Alessio Pisanò, press@euroalter.com – +32 (0) 488 88 2350
Websites
European Alternatives: www.euroalter.com/IT
Facebook Event: http://on.fb.me/GDwxpV
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