The International Catholic Migration Commission serves and protects the needs of uprooted people, refugees, internally displaced persons and migrants, with operations in 30 countries of the world, including Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Turkey.
ICMC advocates for durable solutions and rights-based policies directly and through a worldwide network of 172 member organizations.
ICMC's expertise and core programming consists of refugee resettlement, return and reintegration, local integration, work with extremely vulnerable individuals, counter-trafficking and rescue, NGO capacity-building, technical cooperation and government institution-building, emergency response and advocacy.
The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC), in cooperation with the CBCP’s Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (ECMI), will organize a Consultation on migration issues and priorities in Asia in Manila on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 August 2008. This high level Conference will convene about 40 representatives of 18 countries of the region.
On Friday July 11th 2008, International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) has been officially granted new juridical status by the Holy See, in better accordance with its present identity and activities. The Decree – dated June 24th 2008 – was signed by H.E. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State of the Vatican.
The Exodus Series is a compilation of eleven teaching units intended to serve as formation material for the training of pastoral workers in the migrant ministry. It is composed of 11 booklets as part of the Exodus Formation Program. They are published by The Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC) a non-profit research institute established in 1987 and based in Manila, Philippines. SMC is dedicated to encourage and facilitate the study of socio-demographic, economic, political, psychological, historical, legislative and religious aspects of human migration and refugee movements from and within Asia. For more information: www.smc.org.ph.
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Une conférence-débat sur le thème «Migrations internationales : enjeux de gouvernance » s’est tenue le 17 juin à Paris, sous l’égide du Ministère français des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes (MAE) et du Courrier de la Planète. La manifestation a été ouverte par Régis Koetschet, Directeur des politiques du développement du MAE.
The First Congress of delegates from National and Regional Episcopal Conferences of Africa involved in the pastoral care of migrants, refugees, and displaced personswas held in Nairobi, Kenya on the 2nd-5th of June 2008.
A Call for the Development of Humanitarian Standards of Response to Migrant Victims of Violence & Trauma Regardless of their legal status, men, women and children are falling victim to violence or trauma while crossing borders, being stabbed, shot, starved or thirsted to near-death, raped, injected with drugs, doused with chemicals, abandoned en route or thrown over board to drown. Find out more about the work of ICMC to improve the situation of these people.
Iraqi Refugees in Syria- A report of the ICMC-USCCB Mission to Assess the Protection Needs of Iraqi Refugees in Syria (PDF 376KB). Special Focus on displaced Iraqis- Services provided by the International Catholic Migration Commission (PDF 64KB). Iraqi Asylum Seekers in Jordan- A report of the ICMC-USCCB Mission to Assess the Protection Needs of Iraqi Asylum Seekers in Jordan (PDF 388KB).
At UN Forum to Fight Human Trafficking, Vienna 13-15 February, Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, Council for Migrants and Travellers, urged keeping human rights at center of strategies.
La migration, dernière chance du développement? Six défis essentiels- présentés par le Secrétaire Général de la CICM 2ème Carrefour Genevois de la Solidarité Forum Meyrin, Geneva, January 24-26 (text in French).
The Exodus Series is a compilation of eleven teaching units intended to serve as formation material for the training of pastoral workers in the migrant ministry. It is composed of 11 booklets as part of the Exodus Formation Program. They are published by The Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC) a non-profit research institute established in 1987 and based in Manila, Philippines. SMC is dedicated to encourage and facilitate the study of socio-demographic, economic, political, psychological, historical, legislative and religious aspects of human migration and refugee movements from and within Asia. For more information: 
Bertin, Catholic Bishop of Djibouti and Somalia, member of ICMC, at the 
being stabbed, shot, starved or thirsted to near-death, raped, injected with drugs, doused with chemicals, abandoned en route or thrown over board to drown. Find out more about the work of ICMC to improve the situation of these people.
International Catholic Migration Commission (PDF 64KB).
work in combating trafficking and its response to the problem.