TWENTY-SIX FRENCH PERSONALITIES, intellectuals, scientists, jurists, ecclesiastics, have formed a "college of mediators" last 9th april, to open the way to a dialogue between the paperless peoples "from St. Ambroise" and the French government. After French government's negative answer to the paperless peoples demand for regular papers, the mediators decided to organise next autumn an important National Conference on Immigration.

• Members of the college
• Appeal to the French government
• Mediators press release
  • 6th april 1996: forming of the college of mediators
  • 15th april 1996: interview with the Prime Minister's collaborators
  • 23th april 1996: interview with the "Directeur général de la Police"
  • 29th april 1996: ten criteria to regularize paperless peoples situation
  • 26th june 1996: anxiety about the forthcoming answer of the French government
  • 10th july 1996: someone on duty during summer
  • 7th august 1996: 34th day of hunger strike

Members of the college

• Lucie Aubrac
  Member of the Resistance movement. Co-founder of the "Mouvement de Libération Sud".

• Raymond Aubrac
  Member of the Resistance movement. Former member of the "État-Major de l'Armée Secrète". Now "Commissaire honoraire de la République".

• Jean-Michel Belorgey
  Member of the "Comité Central de la Ligue des Droits de l'Homme". Member of the "Conseil d'État".

• Jean-François Berjonneau
  Priest. Secretary of the "Comité Épiscopal des Migrations".

• André Berroir
  Mathematician. Director of the National Institut for the Sciences of the Universe. Mediator for the CNRS.

• Paul Bouchet
  State Counsellor. Former President of the "Commission Nationale Consultative des Droits de l'Homme".

• Bernard Brunhes
  Former Staff Director of the "Commissaire Général au Plan" and then of the "Service des Affaires Sociales". President of the "Emploi" team of the 11th plan.

• Monique Chemillier-Gendreau
  Professor of Law and Politic Sciences at the University of Paris VII. President of the European Jurists Association for Democracy and Human Rights in the World.

• Noël Copin
  Journalist. Former Editor of "La Croix". President of "Reporters sans Frontières".

• Jacqueline Costa-Lascoux
  Research Director at the CNRS. Expert for the European Council on Immigration Questions and Human Rights.

• André Costes
  Jesuit. In 1979, Secretary of the "Commission Épiscopale des Migrations" and then Director of the "‘uvres de Migration pour l'Église de France". Now Director of the "Éditions d'Assas".

• Mireille Delmas-Marty
  Professor of Law at the University of Paris I. Member of the "Institut de France". From 1988 to 1990, President of the "Commission Justice Pénale et Droits de l'Homme".

• Stéphane Hessel
  Ambassador of France. In 1982, "Délégué interministériel" concerning cooperation and developing countries. Former Member of the "Haut Conseil pour l'Intégration" between 1990 and 1993.

• Paul Kessler
  Physician. President of the Human Right Committee of the "Société de Physique".

• Camille Lacoste-Dujardin
  Anthropologist. Sociologist.

• Pierre Lyon-Caen
  Magistrate.

• Henri Madelin
  Jesuit. Editor of the revue "Études".

• Edgar Morin
  Sociologist. Former Research Director at the CNRS. President of the European Agency for Culture at UNESCO.

• Paul Ric¦ur
  "Doyen honoraire" at the University of Paris X.

• Antoine Sanguinetti
  Member of the Resistance movement. Admiral. Member of the "Comité Central de la Ligue des Droits de l'Homme".

• Laurent Schwartz
  Mathematician. Member of the Institut.

• Louis Schweitzer
  Pastor. Former General Secretary of the "Fédération Protestante".

• Yvette Sultan
  Professor at the Faculty of Medecine. Cheef of the Haematology Service at the Hospital Cochin.

• Germaine Tillion
  Anthropologist.

• Jean-Pierre Vernant
  Member of the Resistance movement. Professor at the "Collège de France".

• Pierre Vidal-Naquet
  Historian. Studies Director at the "École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales".