Markéta Cudlínová

Last November gave us the opportunity to visit several organizations working with migrants in the Spanish city of Santander. The visit took place within the international project Integraction (Fostering Social Labour Integration in Europe), which aims at sharing good practice in the field of economic and social integration of marginalized groups. The following three articles briefly present the most interesting methods observed during the visit.

The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) is a network of European NGOs working to combat racism in all EU member states and represents more than 700 NGOs throughout the European Union. ENAR is determined to fight racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, to promote equality of treatment between European Union citizens and third country nationals, and to link local/regional/national initiatives with European Union initiatives.

Sabe Soe, Eva Kavková

“The positive approach of “powerful” people was very inspiring. The Members of Parliament and city council representatives gave us an example of positive attitudes to migration and migrants, an example of how this complex phenomenon can be beneficial for people and the state in a modern society.”

 - Ljudmila, member of the Czech National Platform of Migrant Women and participant in the international meeting in Dublin

Košice, Slovakia, 8 November 2011: Center for Civil and Human Rights (Center) welcomes the ground breaking decision of the European Court of Human Rights (European Court) in the case of V.C. vs Slovakia, in which a forcibly sterilized Romani woman sought compensations for her involuntary sterilization in the Slovak Hospital.

Jean Lambert *

Member of the European Parliament for the Green party, wrote the following article on gender in the European asylum system for Women's Views on the News. This article, which was published on Tuesday, October 11, is taken from: http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/2011/10/gender-in-asylum-policies-guest-post-by-jean-lambert-mep/

The global campaign Violence is Not our Culture (VNC) calls for an end to the misuse of religion, ‘culture’ and tradition to legitimize acts of violence against women.