Migration, social exclusion and Europe’s rapidly ageing population top agenda of regional humanitarian summit
Red Cross and Red Crescent leaders from across Europe are meeting in Kazakhstan this week to chart their response to the region’s key humanitarian challenges.
The 10th European Regional Conference of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies will bring together senior leadership of the 53 European National Societies on May 2-4 2018.
Migration
This is the first regional gathering of this kind since the start of the migration crisis in Europe in 2015. National Societies have been at the forefront of the continental humanitarian response. The meeting also takes place as UN Member States continue negotiations on a Global Compact on Migration.
Participants will look specifically at the unique and often unrecognized vulnerability of so-called “labour migrants”. People moving across Central Asia and Europe in search of work are extremely vulnerable to exploitation and face poor living conditions and heightened exposure to serious health risks including tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
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