Transcript The Rights of EEA National Victims of Human Trafficking

SPECIAL NON-CONTRIBUTORY
BENEFITS FOR EU MIGRANTS:
A TRI-CITY PROJECT
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
VP/2011/004/0120
Esther Lieu, Project Manager
01 March 2012
Dublin
PROJECT PARTNERS
LEAD PARTNER: ADVICE ON INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EUROPE (The AIRE
Centre), LONDON, UK
Mission: To promote awareness of European law rights and assist marginalised individuals and those in
vulnerable circumstances to assert those rights. We:
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Take cases to the European Court of Human Rights (including cases on behalf of non-EU trafficking
victims facing expulsion);
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Provide free legal advice to individuals and their advisers on their rights under EU law (mostly EU
law on the free movement of persons)
PARTNER 1: FREE LEGAL ADVICE CENTRES (FLAC), DUBLIN, IRELAND
Independent Human Rights organisation dedicated to the realisation of equal access to justice for all.
Activities:
• Provide free legal information, advice and representation;
• Campaign for a state civil legal aid system
PARTNER 2: LIZE GLAS, RADBOUD UNIVERSITY, NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS
PhD Student (thesis on the relationship between European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice
of the EU, the member states, the Parliamentary Assembly and the Committee of Ministers). Previous
internships at The AIRE Centre, UNHCR Cyprus, Netherlands Helsinki Committee.
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PROJECT OBJECTIVES & ACTIVITIES
OBJECTIVE:
ACTIVITIES:
To improve the information that EU migrants in
Amsterdam, Dublin and London have about their right
to access special non-contributory benefits (Art. 70,
Regulation 883/04/EC).
1. Monitoring EU migrants’ access to special noncontributory benefits in the three Member States
concerned;
2. Giving advice to EU migrants applying for special noncontributory benefits;
3. Roundtables in Dublin, London and Amsterdam to
discuss the problems EU migrants applying for benefits
face in those cities;
4. Preparation of Information Notes in multiple languages;
5. Final Report
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
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Low-income EU migrants in Amsterdam, Dublin and London will have more information about how
and in what circumstances they can access special non-contributory benefits;
Law and policy makers at local, national and European levels (including within the EC) will have
more specific information about the experience and challenges faced by EU migrants accessing
special non-contributory benefits;
Advisers working in these three cities will create stronger networks to support EU migrants there,
share best practice and develop monitoring and advocacy tools;
USE OF RESULTS
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A purposely-designed webpage will allow advisers and representatives to access the multi-lingual
information notes, materials from the round-tables and conference, and other related resources for
free;
Advisers and representatives working with EU migrants from other Member States or other areas of
these three Member States will be invited to the roundtables;
The report will be sent to relevant law and policy makers at local, national and EU levels, and
towards the end of the project the project staff will arrange meetings with those law and policy
makers to discuss the results of the project.