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Summer School: Family life and rights of migrant children in the EU

Summer School: Family life and rights of migrant children in the EU

Jun 4, 2021 | Agendas, Events, News

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in collaboration with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), is organizing an online Summer School on the “Family life and rights of migrant children in the European Union” on 23-25 June, 15-16 and 19-20 July 2021.

It will provide training on the right to private and family life of migrant children within the international and regional framework of human rights and EU law, and current challenges in protecting the rights of migrant children, including in the context of Covid-19. The lectures of the Summer School will also touch upon the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum of 2020 and the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child 2021-2024.

The Summer school will be held in English and is open to professionals, academics, and students who would like to deepen their knowledge of the topic. Participants will be provided with relevant teaching materials which were developed in the FAIR project coordinated by the ICJ on fostering migrant children’s access to rights.

Enrolment must be made by application submitted online by 15 June 2021 and is limited to 40 participants. An early bird discount applies to candidates who register before 6 June 2021, while an exemption from enrolment fees applies to 5 foreign students who are beneficiaries of international protection (refugees and subsidiary protection holders).

See more details and the full agenda here: MARS summer school_brochure

Italy: training seminar for lawyers on Strategic litigation and fundamental rights of migrants

Italy: training seminar for lawyers on Strategic litigation and fundamental rights of migrants

Feb 4, 2021 | Agendas, Events, News

Today, the ICJ in collaboration with Scuola Universitaria Sant’Anna is holding an online training seminar on strategic litigation and fundamental rights of migrants.

The two-day training (4-5 February 2021) brings together 40 lawyers working in the field of migration and refugee law in Italy.

Experts from ASGI (Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration), ICJ and Scuola Universitaria Sant’Anna will provide an overview and analysis of redress mechanisms available at national and international level to migrants and their representatives. The training pays particular attention to strategic litigation before the European Court of Human Rights, the individual complaint procedures under the UN treaties with a focus on the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and to the collective complaint mechanism under the European Social Charter. The training will also cover social rights, children’s rights, immigration detention, and a moot court exercise.

See the full agenda here.

 

This training is a part of FAIR PLUS project.  It was carried out with the financial support of the European Union’s Justice programme (2016-2020). Its contents represents the views of ICJ only and is its sole responsibility. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information it contains.

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