ANNUAL REPORT 2006 CONTENTS 1. Mission Statement of ECRE 2 ECRE member Agencies. 3. Letter of welcome 4. The Year in Brief 5. A Coherent Response 6. A Common European Asylum System that will Respect Human Rights 7. Working together for Change 8. Creating a Welcoming Society 9. Support and solidarity across Europe 10. Promoting the Voices of Refugees 11. Case Studies: Refugee Stories 12. 2006 Publications 13. ECRE Structure & Financial Report ECRE MISSION STATEMENT . is a pan-European network the highest quality, legally ) active membership and a strong Secretariat of a wide range of knowledge, experience and best practice throughout Zoja, a refugee from Chechnya living in the Czech Republic (Collected as part of ECRE’s Refugee Stories Project) “The decision-makers should approach asylum seekers the same way that they would like the asylum seekers to approach them.” ECRE draws on the energy, ideas and commitment of an based on the values of human dignity, human rights and an ethic of solidarity. seeking refuge and protection within Europe. It promotes the protection and integration of refugees of refugee-assisting non-governmental organisations, concerned with the needs of all individuals accurate and representative Europe. ECRE encourages the widest possible active involvement of its member agencies. ECRE aims to ensure that its ideas, projects, research and policies are of It strives to involve wider civil society, the political community and refugee communities in its work. THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON REFUGEES AND EXILES (ECRE ON REFUGEES THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL ASYLKOORDINATION: DIAKONIE/PROTESTANT INTERNATIONALINTERNATIONAL EURASIAEURASIA CBAR - Laudonagasse 52/9, 1080 Vienna REFUGEE SERVICE AUSTRIA PRESS FUND COMITE BELGE D'AIDE AUX REFUGIES AUSTRIA Steinergasse 3/12, 1170 Vienna AZ 1006, M. Huseyn sir., 1a, Baku City Rue Defacqz 1, Bte 10, Tel: +43 1 532 1291 AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN 1000 Brussels S Email: [email protected] Tel: +43 1 402 67 54-0 Tel: +994 12 439 76 97 BELGIUM S Website: www.asyl.at/ Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tel: +32 2 537 82 20 E E I I Website: www.diakonie.at/efdoe Email: [email protected] C C N N BULGARIAN RED CROSS CROATIAN LAW CENTRE COUNSELLING CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING CENTRE FOR E 76 James Boucher Blvd, Sofia 1407 Hebrangova 21, 10000 Zagreb INTEGRATION REFUGEES E INTEGRATION REFUGEES BULGARIA CROATIA Senovazna 2, 110 00 Praha 1 Senovazna 2, 120 00 Praha 1 G G Tel: +359 2 865 7547 Tel: +385 1 4873 965 CZECH REPUBLIC CZECH REPUBLIC A A Email: [email protected] Fax: +385 1 4835 013 Tel: +420 224 233 034 Tel: +420 224 228 582 Website: www.redcross.bg Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] R R Website: www.p-p-i.cz/english/index.htm Website: www.uprchlici.ecn.cz/ E E B B CIMADE FORUM REFUGIES FRANCE TERRE D'ASILE ARBEITERWOHLFAHRT 176 rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris BP 1054, 69612 Villeurbanne cedex 24 rue Marc Seguin, 75018 Paris Bundesverband, Postfach 410163 M M FRANCE FRANCE FRANCE Oppelner Strabe 130, 53119 Bonn E E Tel: +33 1 44 18 60 50 Tel: +33 4 78 03 74 45 Tel: +33 1 53 04 39 99 GERMANY M M Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tel: +49 0228 6685-257 Website: www.cimade.org/ Website: www.forumrefugies.org/ Website: www.france-terre-asile.org/ Email: [email protected] Website: www.awo.org E E R R GREEK COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES HUNGARIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE MENEDEK - HUNGARIAN IRISHIRISH REFUGEEREFUGEE COUNCILCOUNCIL C C 25 Solomou str., 10682 Athens 1242 Budapest, Pf. 317, 1054 Budapest ASSOCIATION FOR MIGRANTS 88 Capel Street, Dublin 1 E E GREECE Bajcsy-Zsilinszky ut 36-38 1077 Budapest, Josika utca 2 IRELANDIRELAND Tel: +30 10 332 0000 HUNGARY HUNGARY Tel: +353 1 8730 042 Email: [email protected] Tel: +36 1 321 4327 Tel: +36 1 34 46 224 Email: [email protected] Website: www.gcr.gr/ Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.irishrefugeecouncil.ie/ Website: www.helsinki.hu Website: www.menedek.hu ALTER MODUS DUTCH COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES FOUNDATION FOR REFUGEE PHAROS Beogradska 37, 81000 Podgorica Postbus 2894, 1000 CW Amsterdam STUDENTS UAF Herenstraat 35, Postbus 13318, MONTENEGRO THE NETHERLANDS Postbus 14300, Wilheminapark 38 3507 LH Utrecht Tel: +381 81 23 23 21 Tel: +31 20 346 72 00 THE NETHERLANDS THE NETHERLANDS Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 3581 NJ Utrecht. 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