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displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
The first EU Resettlement Skills Share Day Launch of the EU Resettlement Network website and 2020 Refugee Resettlement Campaign  
The first EU Resettlement Skills Share Day
Brussels, 10 May—European countries should do significantly more to offer a safe haven for refugees in need of resettlement. The newly adopted Joint EU Resettlement Programme now offers European countries possibilities to make a significant contribution to global resettlement. In order to expand and strengthen resettlement in Europe, IOM, ICMC and UNHCR are working together on a project called ‘Linking-In in EU Resettlement’. As part of the building our network, the ‘Linking-In EU Resettlement’ project organises the EU Resettlement Skills Share Day, the first EU event of its kind. The EU Resettlement Skills Share Day takes place on Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 May in Brussels, and will bring together over 160 policy-makers and practitioners in refugee resettlement from 26 countries. Participants include representatives of the EU institutions, central governments, municipalities and regions, NGOs, business and - last but not least - resettled refugees themselves, including those from Afghanistan, Myanmar/Burma, Iraq, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. The event covers all aspects relating to resettlement - highlighting resettlement needs and priority areas as defined by UNHCR, selection by governments, pre-departure activities, travel, and the reception and integration of resettled refugees when they arrive in their new resettlement country. The project also links resettlement actors by promoting a European Resettlement Network<. The network promotes exchange of practices and offers experience-based solutions for those actors wishing to start resettlement programmes, expand existing programmes or play a bigger role in resettlement. In addition to networking activities, the event will be the start of a new campaign to increase resettlement places inEurope – ‘Resettlement saves lives: 20,000 refugees resettled each year by 2020’. All organisations are invited to join the campaign, which aims to increase the number of resettlement places offered by EU Member States in the coming 8 years. Let’s work together, so that by 2020 Europe can offer 20,000 refugees safety, security and a new life every year.
For more information, please find attached the EU Resettlement Skills Share Day Press Package and the programme of the whole event. |
 
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