Mutual concerns for asylum seekers in detention, including alternatives to detention, conditions and treatment, access to assistance,length of stay,efficiency of judicial review and protection needs of vulnerable groups, motivates the partners: Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU) from the Czech Republic,Poland Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Polish HFHR), Foundation GEA 2000 from Slovenia and Apanemi from Cyprus, to form the Regional Advocacy Coalition.The Regional Advocacy Coalition has helped each participating NGO accomplish more with their monitoring by dividing up areas of work, especially in the supportive studies, by defining common positions and strategies and thereby strengthening advocacy work, by implementing joint programs that ensure high standards, evaluation and review, creates support measures for long term sustainability and by learning from shared experiences.
EU: Survey: Alternatives to Detention of Asylum Seekers in EU member states
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- Asia Pacific: Successful Immigration Detention Workshop held in Malaysia
The IDC, together with the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) ran the Asia Pacific Regional Immigration Detention Working Group (IDWG) Workshop in Kuala Lumpur in late November, with approximately 50 participants from 18 countries. - Americas: First IDC regional detention workshop held in Mexico
Sixty participants from 17 countries across a broad spectrum of the western hemisphere tackled immigration detention in the first IDC regional workshop in the Americas held in Mexico City last week. - First regional Alternatives to Detention Roundtable in Brussels, November 2011
The IDC this week presented to governments and civil society from across Western Europe and Malta, as well as to the Council of Europe at the first regional Alternatives Roundtable organized in Brussels.
- Asia Pacific: Successful Immigration Detention Workshop held in Malaysia
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