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.
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 IraqisServices 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).
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.
A new data tool… Did you ever wonder where migrants came from? Where they go? Where they transit through?
Click on the following link: www.migrationinformation.org to see the origins and destinations of migrants to and from nearly every country in the world. Developed by the University of Sussex’s Development Research Centre for Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, this new data tool provides a wealth of information!!
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: 
ouvrage rassemblant près de 200 témoignages et récits de vie de migrants entre l’Afrique et l’Europe