MANILA, 24 February 2010 (The Inquirer)—With increasing cross-border movement of unaccompanied minors, 15 African countries are threshing out ways to strengthen cooperation for the protection of children at risk, at a three-day UN-backed meeting beginning Tuesday in Pretoria, South Africa, the UN office here said in a news release.Read more
BRUSSELS, 24 February 2010 (ECRE)—Preventing as many people as possible from entering Europe irregularly at all costs has become the most important objective of the EU’s migration policy.Read more
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, 16 February 2010 (The Associated Press)—The US Coast Guard repatriated 88 Haitians to the country's north coast on Tuesday, days after they were rescued from a sinking boat off a nearby island.Read more
YEMEN, 15 February 2010 (The Los Angeles Times)—Fleeing civil war and poverty, Somalis take rickety boats to Yemen, the poorest Arab country. Yemen officials say they have a 'moral obligation' to accept the refugees, many of whom don't make it.Read more
ISLAMABAD, 26 January 2010 (IRIN) - Aid agencies are preparing for an influx of a possible further 150,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northwestern Pakistan in 2010, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and other agencies.
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OTTAWA, 16 January 2010 (The Canadian Press)—The federal government is looking at ways to make it easier for Haitians to come to Canada as immigrants or refugees, in response to the devastating earthquake in the Caribbean country.Read more
ITALY, 11 January 2010 (CNN)—The message blaring out of the speakers on the van was stark: "Any black person who is hiding in Rosarno should get out. If we catch you, we will kill you."Read more
SRI LANKA, 6 January 2010 (CNN)—They are home movies of a different sort. Children scamper across the wooden deck. Parents lie on woven mats trying to fend off boredom. A handful of men share a single hose as a shower at the back of the boat. This is daily life aboard the Indonesian fishing boat carrying more than 200 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers to Australia.Read more
WASHINGTON, 4 January 2010 (WHPS)—The United States was founded on the principle that all people are born with an unalienable right to freedom -- an ideal that has driven the engine of American progress throughout our history. As a Nation, we have known moments of great darkness and greater light; and dim years of chattel slavery illuminated and brought to an end by President Lincoln's actions and a painful Civil War.Read more
WASHINGTON, 26 December 2009 (WP)—This booming little border town in China's southwestern Yunnan province, where the economic prosperity of China is separated from the destitution of Burma by nothing more than a flimsy, rusted metal fence, has emerged as the new front line in the worldwide fight against human trafficking.Read more
ISLAMABAD, 17 February 2010—Following days of torrential rains, ICMC and the Strengthening Participatory Organization reach out to families affected by massive landslides that caused four Northern Pakistani villages to slide into a nearby lake, causing serious damage to hundreds of homes and businesses.Read more
WASHINGTON, 4 February 2010 (USCCB)—In a letter to three Cabinet secretaries February 4th, the heads of five major Catholic agencies serving Haitian earthquake victims outlined steps that should be taken to ensure the protection of unaccompanied Haitian children in the aftermath of the January 12th earthquake.Read more
BRUSSELS, 1 February 2010—The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) is pleased to welcome Ms. Hazel Williams to the ICMC Europe office in Brussels, Belgium as Resettlement Coordinator, where she will work in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to strengthen the engagement of European Union Member States in refugee resettlement.Read more
BRUSSELS, 1 March 2010—ICMC Europe joins forces with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), launching a new project on refugee resettlement in Europe 8-9 March in Timisoara, Romania.Read more
VIENNA, 23 January 2010—High-level Church leaders gathered in Vienna discuss global approaches to migration and appeal for solidarity with Haiti at the 109th meeting of the International Catholic Migration Commission Governing Committee.Read more
GENEVA, 15 January 2010—In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti Tuesday, ICMC joins with its member bishop’s conferences worldwide in expressing heartfelt sympathy for the victims and their families, and the essential role that Haitian migrants can play in the country’s recovery.Read more
GENEVA, 18 December 2009—Practical and humane solutions are within reach for governments and all people, combining good sense with solidarity in how societies respond to men, women and children who migrate to and from other countries.Read more
TAIWAN, 13 December 2009—Spearheaded by the Migrants’ Empowerment Network in Taiwan (MENT), Church-based organizations and local NGOs in Asia call attention to the plight of domestic workers and caregivers in Taiwan with a public rally and statement.Read more
GENEVA, 9 December 2009—A global campaign to challenge countries to end abuse of migrants by protecting their human rights will be launched around the world on 18 December.Read more
TURKEY, 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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