During its meeting held in Paris on 29 May, the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons unanimously adopted three groundbreaking reports:

• Ensuring human rights compliant human rights procedures (rapporteur: Stephanie Krisper, Austria, ALDE)

PACE committee warns against the erosion of the right of asylum (coe.int)

• Post-conflict time: defusing ticking time bombs for a safer return of displaced populations (rapporteur: Domagoj Hajduković, Croatia, SOC)

Clearing territories of landmines and unexploded ordnance and ensuring a safe return of displaced populations (coe.int)

• An urgent call to Europe and its partners: envisioning immediate and long-term policy solutions in support of the displaced people of Ukraine (rapporteur: Lise Selnes, Norway, SOC) after hearing Pavlo Frolov, Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the situation of IDPs

Immediate and long-term political solutions to support displaced people in Ukraine (coe.int)

All three reports will be debated during the June part-session.

Two rapporteurs were appointed by acclamation:

• Petri Honkonen (Finland, ALDE) for a report on “Artificial Intelligence and Migration”
• Lord Simon Russell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) for a report on “A shared European approach to access migrant smuggling”.

Highly interesting exchanges of views were heard with:

• Elodie Auzole and Vittoria Logrippo from La Cimade for the Indian Ocean Region on “Putting an end to collective expulsions of aliens” (rapporteur: Pierre-Alain Fridez, Switzerland, SOC)
• Peter Kimpian from the Secretariat of the Data Protection Unit at the Council of Europe on “Missing migrants, refugees and asylum seekers: a call to clarify their fate” (rapporteur: Julian Pahlke, Germany, SOC)
• Noémie Ninnin from UNICEF France on “The challenges and needs of public and private actors in migration management” (rapporteur: Sandra Zampa, Italy, SOC) 
• David Best, the Special Representative of the Secretary on Migration and Refugees

A moving farewell was given by the Chair, Oleksii Goncharenko (Ukraine, EC/DA) to Domagoj Hajduković for whom it was the last meeting.

Through its reports and other activities, the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons remains committed to ensuring that the human rights of migrants, refugees and displaced persons remain protected in all circumstances.