20/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - On the occasion of the World Refugee Day on 20 June, the president of the European Women's Lobby (EWL), Kirsti Kolthoff, is appealing to Member States to transpose the Council directive of April 2004 on the criteria that determines the status of refuges in all Member States into their national law by 10 October 2006. “The Council Directive on common criteria to qualify as a refugee in the context of the EU is particularly interesting from a gender perspective...