International coop.

Association for Integration and Migration, member organisation of the European Platform for International Coopertaion on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), joined the appeal of European human rights organisations in the matter of the Single Permit Directive.

As of today, a letter was disseminated to all Czech Members of the European Parliament to review the proposal of the above stated directive at the plenary session of the European parliament on 24 March 2011 in accordance with the principle of equal treatment.

The Czech version of the letter is attached hereto. The English version is available here.

The Europen Network Against Racism (ENAR) in the connection with the International Day Against Racism the 21th of March, has published the Shadow Report about discrimination in Europe and its memberstates. It brings us the issue of discrimination and racism from the perspective of NGOs. Find more at:

http://www.helcom.cz/dokumenty/FINAL.pdf

Since Februarz 2011, AIM has been contributing to the newly created blog on the website of european network PICUM - the Platform for International Cooperation on Umdocumented Migrants.

In our first input, we express our concerns about new restrictions established for the migrants living in the Czech Republic in the light of the latest amendment to the Czech Aliens Law been in force as of 1 january 2011. The integral text is available at the PICUM website.

"How Much is Enough?"

Migrant Deaths: The hidden costs of climate change

At the occasion of celebrating the UN declared International Refugee Day on 20 June, the Association for Integration and Migration joins the CAMPAIGN in SUPPORT of REFUGEES and MIGRANTS.

We invite you to apply pressure on the Czech government and EU institutions! Write letters about the real and urgent crisis concerning climate refugees.

Sending a letter of protest will give our common action a stronger message.

You can write a letter of protest to the policy-makers of your choice. For inspiration, you can also use the example letter you can find in the attachment and downloadable from the following link (English version):
http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/docs/example_letteRFC10.rtf

For detailed information on the campaign, please read more by clicking on the title.

Lawyer of the Counselling Centre for Refugees, Ms. Eva Valentova, participates in the All Different - All UNITED conference taking place in Neuchatel from 14 to 19 November 2006. The conference is organized by UNITED for Intercultural Action - the largest pan-European anti-racist network of more than 560 organisations. Through its conferences anti-racist and human rights activists from all parts of Europe meet and discuss effective ways of combating racism and discrimination.