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   Lebanon Abuse against migrant domestic workers: Landmark case sets precedent for protecting migrant rightsBEIRUT—Four years after a Filipina migrant workers was first referred to the ICMC-Caritas Lebanon Migrant Centre for protection, legal support and assistance in returning home, her employer has been found guilty of abuse in a landmark case that sets new precedent for protecting the rights of migrant domestic workers and victims of human trafficking who suffer under abusive and/or exploitative employers.Read more Yemen Yemen: asylum seekers run gauntlet of abusesNEW YORK, 20 December 2009 (HRW)—The Yemeni government should stop systematically arresting Ethiopian asylum seekers and forcibly returning them to Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch also called on the United Nations refugee agency to do more to press the Yemeni government to meet its obligations toward all asylum seekers and refugees.Read more Turkey Thousands flee Iran as noose tightensNEVSEHIR, Turkey, 11 December 2009—Sadegh Shojai fled Iran after government agents raided his Tehran apartment, seizing his computer and 700 copies of a book he published on staging revolutions.
Yemen Somalis overwhelm YemenKHARAZ CAMP, Yemen, 3 December 2009—Six-year-old Samira said she, her mother and her two brothers had spent the past week sleeping outside the door of an office waiting their turn to register as refugees.
Iraq US: Iraq needs to do more to help refugees returnBAGHDAD, 15 November 2009 (AP)—The Iraqi government has taken strides to help refugees displaced by the violence in the country over recent years return home, but still "needs to do a heck of a lot more," a U.S. official said Saturday.Read more Turkey ICMC joins US officials in promoting refugee resettlement to the USTURKEY, 5-13 November 2009—ICMC representatives join delegates from the US Department of State, the American embassy and the UN Refugee Agency in a field mission to promote and strengthen the US refugee resettlement process locally.Read more  |
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