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Council of Europe adopts new Action Plan to protect vulnerable migrants
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted a new Action Plan on Protecting Vulnerable Persons in the Context of Migration and Asylum in Europe (2021-2025). The new action plan aims at addressing main challenges and opportunities identified since the previous Action Plan, which focused on migrant children, was completed in 2019. Children remain an important focus of the new plan, which is structured around four pillars: ensuring protection and promoting safeguards by identifying and responding to vulnerability; ensuring access to law and justice; fostering democratic participation and enhancing inclusion; and enhancing co-operation between migration and asylum authorities in Council of Europe member states.
European Parliament denounces treatment of children at Spanish-Moroccan border
The European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted in June a resolution denouncing the treatment of children at the Spanish-Moroccan border in the enclave of Ceuta. The Parliament calls on the Commission to provide emergency funding to address the situation in Ceuta, including funding additional shelter capacity for unaccompanied children. In their own motion, the Greens/EFA group calls on the EU and all Member States to relocate the children in Ceuta to ensure their dignified reception, and recalls that the expulsion of unaccompanied children is illegal. Some 1,100 unaccompanied children continue to be housed in three unfit warehouses in the enclave, according to reports.
CHILDREN
Council of Europe adopts new Action Plan to protect vulnerable migrants
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted a new Action Plan on Protecting Vulnerable Persons in the Context of Migration and Asylum in Europe (2021-2025). The new action plan aims at addressing main challenges and opportunities identified since the previous Action Plan, which focused on migrant children, was completed in 2019. Children remain an important focus of the new plan, which is structured around four pillars: ensuring protection and promoting safeguards by identifying and responding to vulnerability; ensuring access to law and justice; fostering democratic participation and enhancing inclusion; and enhancing co-operation between migration and asylum authorities in Council of Europe member states.
European Parliament denounces treatment of children at Spanish-Moroccan border
The European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted in June a resolution denouncing the treatment of children at the Spanish-Moroccan border in the enclave of Ceuta. The Parliament calls on the Commission to provide emergency funding to address the situation in Ceuta, including funding additional shelter capacity for unaccompanied children. In their own motion, the Greens/EFA group calls on the EU and all Member States to relocate the children in Ceuta to ensure their dignified reception, and recalls that the expulsion of unaccompanied children is illegal. Some 1,100 unaccompanied children continue to be housed in three unfit warehouses in the enclave, according to reports.