Final TRM Seminar - "Now we speak the same language"

The Final Seminar of the TRM Programme to Support the Development of Transnational Referral Mechanisms for Trafficked Persons in South-Eastern Europe) Project was held in Ohrid, Macedonia on June 4. More than 120 participants agreed that the established Transnational Referral Mechanisms constitute a step forward towards creating an effective anti- trafficking network. Please refer to the TRM project details for more information about the Final Seminar and links to all presentations made.

Libya: Quadripartite meeting

Within the framework of the partnership and co-operation agreement concluded between IOPCR und UNHCR, the Italian Council for Refugees (CIR) and ICMPD, a quadripartite meeting took place on June 8 when Mr Khaled EL-Khweldi EL-Hamedi, Chairman of IOPCR, met Dr Mohammed Hantosh, Chief of Mission of UNHCR in Tripoli, Mr Christopher Hein, Director of CIR, Mr Martijn Pluim, Director at ICMPD and the delegations accompanying them on Monday in Tripoli. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the methodology of joint co-operation and co-ordination between IOPCR and its partners on how to provide services and humanitarian assistance to irregular immigrants residing in Libya. ICMPD is presently co-operating with IOPCR on two projects: A comprehensive approach to the effective management of mixed migration flows in Libya and A Comprehensive Survey of Migration Flows and Institutional Capabilities in Libya

High-level CIS Meeting

The Director of Capacity Building and Operations, Martijn Pluim, and the Co-ordinator of Building Migration Partnerships, Radim Zak, took part in the 5th meeting of the Council of Heads of migration authorities of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), under the chairmanship of the Russian Federation in Kazan on 14-15 May 2009. Heads of migration authorities from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine, being the observer to the Council, discussed migration related issues and relations between CIS states as well as co-operation in the field of migration between the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Euroasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) and the Community Security Treaty Organisation.
Download ICMPD's Meeting Statement in English / in Russian (.pdf, 50 KB)

The May Issue of the ICMPD Newsletter is out!

Download the new issue (pdf, 960 kb) here.

New Research Study - now also in Russian - Online

A new study on regularisation of irregular migrants in the European Union provides a thorough review of regularisation practices in the 27 EU Member States, with comparative reflections on regularisation practices elsewhere. The study entitled 'REGINE - Regularisations in Europe. Study on practices in the area of regularisation of illegally staying third-country nationals in the Member States of the EU' has been commissioned by the European Commission and has been conducted by a team of ICMPD researchers, with additional contributions from external experts.

Download a summary of the study here.

The study consists of several parts and can be accessed on the ICMPD Research website: REGINE study

In co-operation with the Söderkoping process, a Russian version of the REGINE study has been produced. The report has now been released on the Söderkoping website.

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Year Book Illegal Migration, Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Central and Eastern Europe in 2007

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