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The Division on Migration and Refugees (DMR) was created at the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law (DG1) on 1 February 2025 to follow-up on the action by the former Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees. Its mandate includes suggesting assistance and support to member states, particularly through the Network of Focal Points on Migration, seeking, collecting and analysing information on the human rights situation of migrants and refugees, as well as complementing and co-ordinating activities of other relevant Council of Europe bodies and our action with other international partners, notably the UNHCR, IOM, EU, and its specialised agencies, and other national, regional and international stakeholders, including civil society organisations. The DMR represents the Council of Europe in the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award Selection Committee, as well as in the Consultative Forums of Frontex and of EUAA.

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France: Visit of the

On 12 January 2021, the Contrôleure générale des lieux de privation de liberté (General Inspector of all places of deprivation of liberty) of France, Mrs. Dominique Simonnot, visited the Council of Europe and met in particular with the Department for the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. The execution by France of two recent Court's judgments, of which a first examination by the Committee of Ministers is scheduled for 2021, was discussed: J.M.B. and Others v. France on the poor conditions of detention in prisons and the lack of an effective preventive remedy and Moustahi v. France concerning the detention and removals of unaccompanied children from Mayotte to the Comoros.

DEPARTMENT FOR THE EXECUTION OF JUDGMENTS OF THE ECtHR
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