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.
Middle East   USCIRF Condemns terrorist attack on Baghdad churchWASHINGTON, D.C., 3 November 2010 (USCIRF)—The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom today condemned Sunday’s terrorist attack on Baghdad’s Our Lady of Salvation Catholic church and expressed its sincere condolences to the victims and their families. Reports indicate that at least 40 worshippers, two priests, and 10 members of the Iraqi security forces were killed, and more than 60 people were wounded.Read more Saudi Arabia Nails removed from 'tortured' Sri Lankan maid27 August 2010—Doctors have removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan housemaid who said her employer in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body.Read more Canada Toronto archbishop leads by example, sponsors Iraqi refugee familyTORONTO, 17 August, 2010 (CNS)—For Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins, the fate of Iraqi Christians trapped in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon is not just another tough case in an unfair world full of too much heartbreak. For him, the situation is personal.Read more Refugee resettlement UN chief announces 100,000 landmark in resettlement of Iraqi refugeesAL HASSAKEH, 18 June 2010 (UNHCR)—UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, announced today a major landmark in resettlement of Iraqi refugees, with 100,000 people having been referred for resettlement from the Middle East to third countries since 2007. Guterres made the announcement during his visit to Syria, which according to government estimates, hosts over 1 million refugees, the majority from Iraq.Read more Middle East/Asia Partial reforms fail migrant domestic workersNEW YORK, 28 April 2010 (HRW)—The reforms undertaken by Middle Eastern and Asian governments fall far short of the minimum protections needed to tackle abuses against migrant domestic workers, Human Rights Watch said today in a report released in advance of May 1, International Labor Day. Despite recent improvements, millions of Asian and African women workers remain at high risk of exploitation and violence, with little hope of redress, Human Rights Watch said.Read more Yemen Somali refugee flow slows down despite ongoing violenceADEN, 9 April 2010 (AlertNet)—The number of people crossing the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea in the mixed migration flow from the Horn of Africa has nearly halved during the first quarter of the year in comparison with the same period in 2009. Since the beginning of the year, some 9,400 people reached the shores of Yemen in contrast to nearly 17,000 between January and March 2009.Read more  |
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