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We work for a world where everyone can enjoy their human rights, whatever their migration status. Check us out on picum.org
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All you need to now on the new #Return Regulation proposal, return hubs, and existing agreements with #Kosovo and #Albania with @cartasilvia.bsky.social (@picumofficial.bsky.social), Fatmire Haliti (KRTC), Orjana Demaliaj (@jrseurope.bsky.social) newunionpost.eu/2025/03/11/r...

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🚨 NEW RETURNS REGULATION: from deportation hubs to entry bans, here's all that's wrong with this new proposal.

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🎧 Our next episode is out where we discuss our latest I-Claim discourse analysis around irregular migration with Bastian Volmer and Michelle LeVoy from @picumofficial.bsky.social - check it out 📣

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For many undocumented women, reporting abuse to police means risking deportation. A new Directive on victims' rights, under negotiation, might remedy this failure, and we'll be pushing for this as much as we can. Being safe and getting justice shouldn't depend on your papers.

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A new European Parliament study asks the European Commission to withdraw proposed rules to tackle migrant ‘smuggling’, as they risk leading to increased criminalisation of migrants and those who help them. We spoke to @euobserver.com.

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🚨 NEW study from European Parliament asks Commission to withdraw proposed rules against migrant smuggling due to risks around increased criminalisation of migration and solidarity with migrants.

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Happy and proud to join @easpd.bsky.social and 200+ orgs in calling for a strong European Social Fund to care for people and boost social inclusion. The time is now.

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Support to Ukraine is all over the headlines again. But let's not forget support to people who fled the war: today we join 100+ orgs in a wake-up call to the EU. Joint statement: picum.org/blog/three-y...

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Our Director Michele LeVoy will be tomorrow at @ceps.eu Ideas Lab to discuss labour migration and how to improve working conditions for migrant workers. Stay tuned for more!

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🎉 Congrats to Abou Sangare for his role in "The story of Souleymane" (go see it!) - but crazy you need to be an award-winning actor to get a residence permit.

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🚨 COMING OUT SOON: on 11 March, a new EU law might greenlight deportation hubs outside the EU. Read our newsletter for more on what we know and what we'll fight: 7z96.mjt.lu/nl3/R6auaHqc... 💌 Sign up: picum.org/newsletters/

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We’ve made a series of suggestions to @ec.europa.eu to help it monitor EU funds granted to Member States for border management and ensure their use does not result in fundamental rights violations. More info here: www.ombudsman.europa.eu/news-documen...

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Spain is not all roses. But policies more progressive than in most of Europe show how migration helps our societies grow and thrive ❤️

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More powers to Europol to "fight migrant smuggling"? Today we join partners of the Protect not Surveil coalition in telling the EU why this is wrong and harmful.

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UN expert on human rights defenders @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social says EU Council's position on new EU anti-smuggling rules is "very disappointing". Key concerns we fully share relate to the Council leaving the door open to the criminalisation of solidarity with migrants.

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Spain will grant one-year residence and work permits to those affected by the Valencia floods and their closest family. This is such a relief for many who were affected by the floods and were left with zero options to recover. This solidarity is also the Europe we want ❤️

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🚨 The 2025 Commission's work plan is out. Scroll down for what it says about migration - and what we think of it. Source: commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

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💰 The Commission has just started public consultations on future spending priorities, and is asking citizens to say if "illegal migration" should be one key risk to spend money on. Again, Europe pursues repression against migration that Europe itself makes irregular and turns into a threat.

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🚨 UPDATE Doros faces today a first hearing for trumped up charges against his human rights work in the Pournara immigration detention camp in 2022. He risks three years in prison. We call on the Cypriot authorities to drop the charges and stop harassing people defending human rights in Cyprus.

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🚨 The European Commission is preparing a new law to step up deportations. Yesterday, we brought together 9 other NGOs and met the EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner to voice our concerns. Here's what we told him:

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