Improving access to justice for migrants, asylum seekers and children

LANZAROTE, Spain, Oct. 25 – Justice ministers from the Council of Europe’s 47 member states will discuss how to improve access to justice for migrants, asylum seekers and children, including young offenders, at a conference on Thursday and Friday. The ministers will consider guidelines on adapting justice systems to suit children’s needs, as well as new European rules aimed at offering juvenile offenders greater protection and aiding their integration into society. The 28th Conference of the European Ministers of Justice will cover emerging issues of access to justice for vulnerable groups such as migrants and asylum seekers; and children, including those who commit crimes. More than a million Albanians (no exact figure is available) work as migrants, many of them illegally, in western European Union countries from neighboring Italy and Greece, and further to Germany, France, Britain and other nations.