The International Catholic Migration Commission
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.
Africa   UN Human Rights Council Call for protection and assistance to migrants kidnapped and assaulted for ransom in the Sinai desert and elsewhereGENEVA, 6 June 2011—Ethiopian Bishops’ Conference Secretary General and ICMC member, Abba Hagos Hayish, makes a plea to governments, international organizations and civil society representatives gathered at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, calling for action on behalf of the hundreds of migrants kidnapped and held hostage for ransom in the Sinai desert.Read more Tunisians save hundreds as another Lampedusa-bound boat capsizesTUNISIA, 3 June 2011 (UNHCR)—At least 150 people have drowned and scores remain missing following a boat capsizing off the Tunisian coast on Wednesday afternoon. This appears to be one of the worst and the deadliest incidents in the Mediterranean so far this year.Read more UNHCR urges more international support to ease tensions at Tunisia border campCHOUCHA CAMP, Tunisia, May 27 2011 (UNHCR)—The UN refugee agency has urged donor and resettlement countries to step up assistance for thousands of refugees and migrant workers caught up in this week's disturbances at a camp near the Tunisia-Libya border.Read more Libya Hundreds return to Libya in desperate bid to reach Europe by boatGENEVA, 17 May 2011 (UNHCR)⎯Hundreds of people who had fled Libya for Tunisia and Egypt in recent weeks, have crossed back into Libya with the intention of boarding boats to reach Europe. Among them are refugees, including members of the Somali, Ethiopian and Eritrean communities in the camps at Shousha near Tunisia’s border with Libya.Read more Commission mixte Méditerranée Les évêques de la Méditerranée pour un autre regard sur les migrantsTUNIS, 4 mai 2011 (La Croix)—L’immigration était au cœur d’une rencontre entre évêques catholiques d’Europe et du Maghreb, qui s’est achevée hier à Tunis.Read more Eritrean refugees arrive in Romanian emergency transit centre from TunisiaTIMISOARA, Romania, 20 April 2011 (UNHCR)—Thirty Eritrean refugees have arrived at an emergency transit centre in western Romania after fleeing Libya and spending weeks in a crowded camp in Tunisia as UNHCR and its partners sought a solution for them.Read more  |
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