Focus on PakistanICMC provides emergency relief to IDPs in Pakistan's Mardan districtThe humanitarian crisis in Pakistan has been worsening by the day. To date, an estimated 2.5 to 3 million people have been forced to leave their homes in the North West Frontier Province of Malakand and in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) due to intense fighting. Learn more about how ICMC is responding to this urgent humanitarian crisis, and what you can do to help.Read more |
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serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
  ICMC NewsResearch on urban refugees Protection, mobility and livelihood challenges of displaced Iraqis in urban settings in Jordan(publication - 01/07/2009)ICMC consultant Geraldine Chatelard examines the motivations, current context and effects of both the Iraqi displacement and the conspicuous urban preference, framing central issues and approaches to assistance and protection for Iraqis during their displacement and beyond.Read more Voices from the field Observations and recommendations on the resettlement expectations of Iraqi refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria(publication - 30/06/2009) World Refugee Day 2009 Celebrating shared hope and responsibility(news - 22/06/2009) Reflections by the ICMC Secretary General Crossing the red line in efforts to combat irregular migration(news - 26/05/2009) Events this past month demonstrate the complexity-and risk-of mixing reflexes of rescue at sea that are commendable and comply with international law, with newer policies that go in other directions in unprecedented fashion and speed. The immediate return to Libya of 238 people rescued in international waters was a step across the red line of human dignity, towards a downward slope of diminished human dignity for us all.Read more 2009 Guide to ratification of the International Migrant Workers Convention(publication - 15/05/2009) ICMC Statement Algeria and the rights of migrant workers and their families (activity - 27/04/2009) At the tenth session of the Migrant Workers' Convention, the International Catholic Migration Committee (ICMC) delivered a response to the first report submitted to the United Nations Committee on Migrant Workers by the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Read more |
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