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Upholding the right to asylum and ensuring unconditional solidarity with all people on the move

SOLIDAR has a diverse membership of over 50 civil society organisations based in 26 countries. Our member organisations include popular education associations, trade unions, independent think tanks, migrant-led organisations working to advance social justice through a just transition. One aspect of our vision for social justice is a governance of migration based on the respect of fundamental rights and solidarity,…

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SOLIDAR’s input on the recognition of qualifications of non-EU nationals

SOLIDAR & SOLIDAR Foundation (SOLIDAR) have contributed to the European Commission’s Call for evidence on Recognition of qualifications of non-EU nationals. You can see SOLIDAR’s submission on the call’s platform or download it on the right of this article. As acknowledged in the EU Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion, facilitating the recognition of prior…

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Partnering with Tunisia, the EU persists in its ill-guided politics to keep people out of its territory – and have a highly repressive country do the dirty job

The EU must stop signing agreements with third countries demonstrating human rights violations as it tries to stop migrants from arriving to Europe. Background The EU officially announced the past 16th of July the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding for a ‘’comprehensive partnership package’’ with Tunisia.[1] Organised in three main axes (economic and trade…

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EU Artificial Intelligence Act: civil society calls for regulating surveillance technology

Increasingly, in Europe as in the rest of the world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are built and deployed for harmful purposes linked to state surveillance. As the negotiations between EU legislators on the EU AI Act are ongoing, civil society organisations including SOLIDAR & SOLIDAR Foundation are calling on policy-makers to set strict limits and scrutiny…

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Social Rights Ambassadors conference and Policy Focus in Portugal: employability, gender and migration

Social Rights Ambassadors event: looking at migration and gender’s impact on employability in Portugal ”Employability, migration & gender: challenges and good practices” is one of SOLIDAR’s Social Rights Ambassadors events for 2023 and took place in Lisbon, Portugal on 6th July 2023. It was co-organised by SOLIDAR and its transnational member Rede Sem Fronteiras, through…

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EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Member States’ recent agreement is a severe blow back to protection standards in Europe

On Thursday 8th June, the Council of the European Union (the Council) led by the Swedish presidency reached an agreement on two files of the EU Pact of Migration and Asylum: the Asylum and Migration Management Regulation (AMMR) and the Asylum Procedures Regulation (APR). Trialogues have been open as those files need to be discussed…

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SOLIDAR at Sabir Festival 2023: against walls, for a welcoming Europe

A SOLIDAR delegation was present at this year’s Sabir Festival, taking place from 11th to 13th May in Trieste, Italy. Sabir, the festival of Mediterranean cultures, is co-organised yearly by SOLIDAR members ARCI and CGIL, along with Italian organisations ACLI, Caritas Italiana, ASGI and Carta di Roma The Festival offers moments of sociability, debate and…

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EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Parliament votes to enhance rights for ‘’economic’’ migrants, but progress on protection files is much more timid

The past week from 17th to 21th April, the European Parliament adopted positions on several important files under the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. This marks the beginning of interinstitutional negotiations with Member States in the Council of the EU to find a compromise on the texts. On so-called ‘’legal migration’’ initiatives, rights of…

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A two-year journey into Sustainable Integration Practices – SPRING Final Conference: Presentation of tools and lessons learnt

The SPRING Final Conference took place on 31st January in Brussels, Belgium. This event was attended by over 50 invested partners and stakeholders in the area of integration practice, coming from the research, practice, and policy-making fields from various countries in Europe and America. It allowed practitioners to learn about the SPRING results and tools,…