The EU’s intention to develop a comprehensive Child Rights Strategy represents an important opportunity for the EU to champion the rights of the child within its borders and across the world. This position paper presents a set of key principles to guide t

This guide is the result of PICUM's two year project “Building Strategies to Improve the Protection of Undocumented Children in Europe”, which aimed to spread understanding of the challenges children in an irregular migration situation face in accessing t

PICUM's new report Guaranteeing Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrants in Europe: What Role Can Local and Regional Authorities Play? outlines the crucial role played by local and regional authorities in ensuring the implementation of fundamental

To promote an end to violence against women, this report provides a practical overview of methods that protect rights and ensure justice for survivors regardless of their immigration status. Across Europe, undocumented women are turned away from women’s s

Organised by PICUM and the United Methodist Women Immigrant/Civil Rights Initiative, this workshop- held in Athens in 2009, provided for valuable networking and information sharing between migrant women and their advocates. Adopting a global perspective,

This report pieces together a year of European, national and local news issues on irregular migration to foster a better understanding of the main concerns of human rights of undocumented migrants as well as the multifaceted ways in which civil society th

A report prepared by PICUM, which highlights the presentations and discourse which took place during the public hearing on 8 December 2010, in the European Parliament on “Preventing Undocumented Pregnant Women and Children from Accessing Health Care: Fost

PICUM, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, held an international conference in Brussels on 22-23 January 2009 to culminate its two-year project on undocumented children in Europe. For the first time in Europe, more than 15

This report aims to investigate the particular vulnerability that characterizes the reality of undocumented children and analyze their specific needs and problems encountered in nine EU countries. The report is specifically focused on the discrimination t

The report presents the findings and recommendations of PICUM's two year EU project 'Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrants in Europe'. Field trips were carried out in 11 countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands,