03 July 2015

On Tuesday, 7 July, the International Catholic Migration Commission will launch the report “10% of refugees from Syria – Europe’s resettlement and other responses in a global perspective”, at the Maison des Associations Internationales (MAI) in Brussels.

Philippa Candler, Head of Policy and Legal Support Unit at UNHCR, Jo de Backer, EU Policy and Liaison Officer at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Matthieu Tardis, Researcher at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI) and a representative from the Asylum Unit of the European Commission, will discuss future prospects to develop resettlement and alternative legal avenues, in the context of the European Agenda on Migration.

The publication is written in the framework of the project “Strengthening the response to Emergency Resettlement Needs”, carried out by IOM, UNHCR and ICMC, co-funded by the European Commission.

The event will start at 9 am, at the MAI (Salle Commission 2) in Rue Washington, 40. To register, please contact boehm@icmc.net.


This article originally appeared in the ECRE Weekly Bulletin of 03 July 2015
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