The well-known European Platform for Internation Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants PICUM published the first edition of the PICUM Quarterly Newsletter. This Quarterly Newsletter is a summary and revised edition of news items published in the PICUM Bulletins between January and March 2011 providing you the most up to date information on each issue.

The news items of the PICUM Quarterly Newsletter are categorised thematically and sorted by country and chronologically. Among others, the conference "Regularisation of irregular migration, held by AIM, OPU and MKC on 12 April 2011 in the Polish Institute Prague is announced in the category "Events".

The three major Czech non-governmental organizations dealing with rights of foreigners Association for Integration and Migration, Organization for Aid to Refugees and Multicultural Centre Prague elaborated a comprehensive analysis on irregular migration, labor market and regularisation under the homonymic title to their common 2-year project „Regularisation as one of the tools in the fight against irregular migration“ and with a considerable contribution of foreign partner NGOs in the project SOS Racismo – Mugak from Spain and Solidariedade imigrante from Portugal.

Presentation of the analysis (in Czech only) and a brief summary can be found in the attachment hereto. We will gladly offer the integral analysis to the interested persons upon request at: valentova@refug.cz . More »

With the participation of experts and a general public, the final conference for the project "Regularization as one of the tools in the fight against irregular migration", took place on 12 April 2011 in Prague.

The conference summarised the 2-year lasting work of three Czech non-governmental organisations dealing with the rights of foreigners (legal counseling, surveys, study of relevant legislation, lobbying for rights of immigrants in the Parliament), namely Association for Integration and Migration, Organisation for Aid to Refugees and Multicultural Centre Prague.

The key topic of the conference coincided with one of the main goals of the project – promotion of regularisation in the Czech Republic.

All presentations screened at the conference and video records of separate panel sessions are available at thed project internet platform: http://www.migraceonline.cz/e-knihovna/?x=2291509 More »

Association for Integration and Migration

Organisation for Aid to Refugees and

Multicultural Centre Prague

cordially invite you to the conference enclosing the public presentation of the project

Regularisation of Irregular Migration

12 April 2011, 9h - 16hPolish Institute, Karlova 27, Prague 1

· 3 panel discussions on issues related to the irregular migration: labour and labour conditions, access to health and to social services, removal and family rights of irregular migrants

· Participation of foreign partner in the project Solidariedade Imigrante (PT) and SOS Racismo – Mugak (ES)

· Presentations of representatives of Czech state authorities and non-governmental organisations

· Results of the survey executed among irregular migrants in the CR

· Videos with stories of irregular migrants in the EU

· Press conference

Working languages: Czech, Portuguese and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation

Nine EU countries do not guarantee access to health care for undocumented pregnant women and children

MEPs join NGOs in urging Member States to tackle health inequalities in access to health care for undocumented children and women

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SIMI and MKC will attend the public hearing heald at the Europan Parliament on the theme

"Preventing undocumented pregnant women and children from accessing healthcare : Fostering health inequalities

in Europe”.

The hearing, hosted by several political groups and carried out in partnership with Médecins du Monde/HUMA network, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), the European Women's Lobby (EWL) and the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN), will bring together experts from EU institutions and civil society to discuss the main barriers faced by undocumented migrants to accessing health care in Europe, with a special focus on undocumented women and children.

In the framework of the project Regularization as one of the tools in the fight against irregular migration, support by the European Social Fund, the cooperation with European based HUMA Network has been established. The network consists of 16 NGOs accross Europe, each of which has an activity related to health and migration and especially towards undocumented migrants and or asylum seekers.

The cooperation resulted in the participation of the Cech partners in preparatory works of a comparative overview related to the access of irregular migrants and asylum seekers to the healthcare in 11 EU Member states. Among others, the collected data will be used at the public hearings of the European Parliament, which will take place on 8 December 2010.

The executive summary related to the Czech Republic is enclosed in the attachement (only EN version).

The complete report will be shortly published at the HUMA Network website (section Publications and Ressources).

We have contributed to the study on impacts of the economic crisis on the migration field in the EU, the elaboration and compilation of which was initiated by the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) in Brussels. In the framework of the country case study, we have analysed the latest trend in the field of irregular migration and the the measures the state institutions had taken in order to suspend the negative impacts of the economic crisis on migrants residing in the Czech Republic.

The report (only EN version) is available at: http://www.labourmigration.eu/research/report/12-migration-and-the-econo

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Read the report fro the seminar, which SIMI, OPU and MKC organised for Portuguese partner organisation Solidariedade Imigrante (SOLIM) z Portugalska in the framework of the project Regularization of irregular migration. The seminar took place in the period of 24 - 27 March 2010 and it aimed to familiarize the Portuguese delegates with the situation in the area of irregular migration and regularisation in the Czech Republic and along with it responsible practices for local non-profit organisations as well as Czech state administrative bodies and on that basis to develop debate in order to encourage Czech NGOs in their lobbying activities in relation to the discussed issues.

From the Portuguese side, Timóteo Macedo, director of SOLIM and his colleague Madina Omarkhanova accepted the invitation to the seminar.