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On 21 October 2024, the European Ombudsman closed her inquiry on respect for human rights in the context of the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). She concluded, inter alia, that the Commission should set out the criteria on which the suspension of contracts due to violations of human rights in the implementation of EU-funded projects in Tunisia would be based. These criteria should be made public.
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Hoofdthema: External Dimension
Trefwoorden: memorandum of understanding, Tunisia, human rights, border management, border control
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As the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons celebrates its 70th anniversary on 28 September 2024, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates the number of stateless people worldwide at more than 4 million by the end of 2023.
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Hoofdthema: Statelessness
Trefwoorden: stateless persons, access to nationality
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On 5 September 2024, the UN Refugee Agency was awarded the "Fair Play for Peace Award" for its ongoing work to improve the lives of refugees, displaced and stateless persons through sport, in particular following the launch of the Agency's "More than a Game" sport strategy which promotes sport as a powerful vehicle for peace, inclusion and social cohesion.
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Hoofdthema: Integration
Trefwoorden: sport, empowerment, peace
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Cindy Ngamba, a 25-year-old Cameroonian refugee living in the United Kingdom, won the bronze medal in the boxing discipline at the Paris Olympics. She is the first athlete in any sport to secure a medal while representing the refugee team.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: Olympic Games, boxing, refugee olympic team
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An IOM-Harvard report shows that close to half of the child victims of trafficking were being trafficked for forced labour (mainly boys), in a wide range of industries, such as domestic work, begging and agriculture. Sexual exploitation, including through prostitution, pornography, and sexual servitude, is also prominent, affecting 20 per cent of trafficked children, predominantly girls.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: child trafficking, vulnerability, forced labour, sexual exploitation
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World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on 20 June and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.
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Hoofdthema: Asylum
Trefwoorden: World Refugee Day
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According to the 2024 Global Trends Report from UNHCR, one in every 69 people, or 1.5 % of the entire world’s population, is now forcibly displaced. The rise in overall forced displacement was the 12th consecutive annual increase and reflects both new and mutating conflicts and a failure to resolve long-standing crises.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: forced displacement, conflict, internally displaced person, refugee, stateless persons, return, resettlement, citizenship
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During the first half of 2024, pivotal policy and political developments in the area of asylum and migration were put on the agenda, including the voting of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum by the European Parliament, and the European elections. At this critical juncture, there is a need for credible evidence, established expertise and open dialogue on the direction and shape of future policymaking. Within this context, MIGNEX is convening a high-level Policy Conference on EU migration and development policy.
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Hoofdthema: External Dimension
Trefwoorden: migration-development nexus, policy coherence
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In a joint Declaration signed in Cairo on 17 March 2024, the Arab Republic of Egypt and the European Union agreed to elevate their relationship to the level of a strategic and comprehensive partnership. The document identifies specific areas of cooperation, including migration and mobility.
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Hoofdthema: External Dimension
Trefwoorden: partnership, Egypt, migration governance
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According to data collected by IOM’s Missing Migrants Project, 2023, with at least 8565 deaths and disappearances, is the deadliest year since the project's inception in 2014. IOM highlights the urgent need for action to prevent further loss of life.
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Hoofdthema: Irregular Migration
Trefwoorden: migration route, migrant death, Mediterranean
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The event will showcase tangible achievements, lessons, and insights from Inspire - Incubating Skills Partnerships beneficial to Migrants, Countries of Origin and Destination - including best practices and strategies from international partners, and encourage innovative initiatives in skills development and international mobility.
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Hoofdthema: Economic migration
Trefwoorden: skills partnership, skills development, mobility
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During this policy talk, Jean-Louis De Brouwer (Director, European Affairs Program, Egmont Institute) and Ralph Genetzke (Director, ICMPD Brussels Mission) will assess the main lessons and migration policy developments of 2023 and offer their insights for the year ahead in a discussion moderated by Violeta Wagner (Regional Portfolio Manager, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, ICMPD).
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: Prague Process, policy developments
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Vanaf vandaag, 1 januari 2024, hebben inwoners van Kosovo met een biometrisch paspoort geen visum meer nodig als ze voor een kort verblijf van maximaal 90 dagen per periode van 180 dagen naar alle 27 landen in het Schengengebied reizen.
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Hoofdthema: Grenscontrole & Visa
Trefwoorden: visumliberalisering, Schengen, Kosovo
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Elk jaar wordt op 18 december de Internationale Dag van de Migrant gevierd. Deze dag werd op 4 december 2000 door de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties aangeduid als reactie op de toenemende migratie over de hele wereld en is bedoeld om de aandacht te vestigen op de mensenrechten van migranten en hun bijdrage aan onze samenlevingen te benadrukken.
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Hoofdthema: Migratie
Trefwoorden: Internationale Dag van de Migrant
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Eurochild and the Federation of Non-Governmental Organisations for Children (FONPC) are organising an international conference to share good practices and lessons on how civil society can facilitate the integration of refugee and asylum-seeking children.
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Hoofdthema: Vulnerable groups
Trefwoorden: children, Integration
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The 14th summit of the Global Forum on Migration and Development will focus on "From environmental concerns to cultural aspects of migration: adopting an inclusive approach to meet the challenges and increases the opportunities for human mobility". This high-level event will mark the conclusion of the French Chairmanship of the GFMD.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: Global Forum for Migration and Development, climate change, human mobility
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This virtual event is part of the OECD COP28 Virtual Pavilion, which runs from 23 November to 12 December 2023. The pavilion presents key OECD contributions with insights to drive ambitious and globally effective action on climate change.
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Hoofdthema: Vulnerable groups
Trefwoorden: forced displacement, climate change
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The World Health Organization has published its first-ever global research agenda on health, migration and displacement to guide research efforts to understand and address the health needs of migrants, refugees, and all forcibly displaced populations and shape responsive policies and practices worldwide.
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Hoofdthema: Vulnerable groups
Trefwoorden: health, health emergency, migrant health
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The 2023 Innovation Awards were awarded at the IOM Global Chiefs of Missions Meeting (GCOMM) in Istanbul on 25 October 2023. In the category "Regular Pathways", Displaced Talent for Europe (DT4E), which facilitates skilled migration for displaced talent to respond to labour market shortages, was acknowledged as the changemaker.
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Hoofdthema: Economic migration
Trefwoorden: regular pathway, skilled migrants, displaced person, labour market shortage
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The International Migration Outlook 2023, published today by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), highlights inter alia that permanent-type migration to OECD countries increased by 26% in 2022 compared with 2021. In Belgium and in many OECD countries, permanent-type migration was higher in 2022 than in any of the previous 15 years.
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Hoofdthema: Data & Statistics
Trefwoorden: international migration trend, labour market integration, permanent migration
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In a new article published today, the Migration Policy Institute reviews definitions of climate migration and questions the value of such a definition. It explores the difficulties of distinguishing climate migrants from other kinds of economic or humanitarian migrants, particularly in low- and lower-middle-income countries, and it highlights that the populations most vulnerable to climate change are often those who cannot migrate.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: environmental migrants, climate refugee, climate migrant
The EU and Tunisia agree to implement a "comprehensive strategic partnership" including on migration
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Today, Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi and Secretary of State of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad, Mounir Ben Rjiba, signed a memorandum of understanding covering macro-economic stability, trade and investment, green energy transition, people-to-people contacts, and migration.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: memorandum of understanding, partnership, Tunisia
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Wereldvluchtelingendag is een internationale dag die door de Verenigde Naties is uitgeroepen om vluchtelingen over de hele wereld te eren. De dag valt elk jaar op 20 juni en viert de kracht en moed van mensen die gedwongen werden hun thuisland te ontvluchten om te ontsnappen aan conflicten of vervolging.
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Hoofdthema: Asiel
Trefwoorden: World Refugee Day
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The Global Refugee Forum 2023 will be the opportunity to build on the progress made by States and stakeholders towards the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees and of pledges and initiatives announced since the first Forum in 2019.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: global compact on refugees
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Deze ochtend nam EMN België deel aan een rondetafelgesprek. Het gesprek werd gemodereerd door de Speciale Gezant Asiel en Migratie, Lieven de La Marche, en ook het kabinet van de Staatssecretaris voor Asiel en Migratie, het Belgische Ontwikkelingsagentschap (Enabel) en de coalitie voor internationale solidariteit (11.11.11) namen deel. Belgische actoren bespraken het rapport dat hen voorgelegd werd.