PICUM

PICUM (the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants) is a non-governmental organization that aims to promote respect for the human rights of undocumented migrants within Europe. PICUM also seeks to dialogue with organizations and networks with similar concerns in other parts of the world (it has over 100 affiliated and 107 ordinary members in approximately 25 countries in Europe and beyond).
History
The initiative to establish PICUM was taken in the late 1990s by grassroots organisations from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. People from these organisations met each other frequently at European meetings on asylum and shared the same concern. Most of their clients weren’t asylum seekers; they were actually undocumented migrants. They found that there was a real vacuum in Europe regarding undocumented migrants and so set about creating a platform to represent them at EU level.
Activities
PICUM ’s...