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   Ghana Workshop on migration issues opens in AccraACCRA, 26 October 2009 (GBC News)—The Chief of Mission International Organization for Migration, Dyane Epstein underscored the important of migration issues for socio economic development. He noted that the Ghana Living Standards Survey has revealed that poverty reduction especially in the rural and deprived areas are partly due to the contributions from Ghanaian migrants.Read more Ethiopia Archbishop calls for fight against trafficking and displacementVATICAN, 8 October 2009 (CISA)—Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel calls for action in reducing human trafficking and reinforcing the human dignity of displaced persons at the October 2009 Synod on Africa.Read more France Afghan migrants brace for eviction from French 'jungle'CALAIS, France, 22 September 2009 (AFP)—More than 200 mostly Afghan boys and men braced Monday for a showdown with French riot police preparing to raze the "jungle," a makeshift migrant camp on the Channel coast they call their home.Read more Burundi Bishop bids refugees bye after years in TanzaniaKIGOMA, 22 September 2009 (CISA)—The last Burundian refugees in Tanzania are preparing to return home, ending a humanitarian crisis that began more than 30 years ago.Read more Gulf of Aden Latest smuggling incidents leave 65 dead or missing in the Gulf of AdenADEN, 15 September 15 (UNHCR)—Three separate incidents involving smuggling boats in the perilous Gulf of Aden have left 16 people dead and 49 missing and presumed dead in the past few days.Read more Mediterranean Somali immigrants saved by the AFMMALTA, 2 September 2009 (Times of Malta)—A group of 84 Somali immigrants were rescued by the Armed Forces of Malta in the early hours. They are expected in Malta later this morning.Read more  |
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