Europe Committee urges more help for immigrant girls

4 Dec 2008 |

The website of the Council of Europe reports that the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) urged European countries to do more to help girls mostly from immigrant communities, who are forced by their families to return to their countries of origin to be ‘forcibly married, circumcised or enslaved’. In their draft report the Committee on Equal Opportunities also called on consular staff in third countries to ‘*facilitate the return’ of abducted girls* by working with the authorities and local NGOs.

Source : The Council of Europe