The International Catholic Migration Commission serves and protects
uprooted people: refugees, internally displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
The number of refugees who eventually settle in the the United States, as well as where they come from and when they will arrive, is largely a function of the capacity of the UN Refugee Agency, Overseas Processing Entities (OPEs) and service providers working overseas. Today, this capacity needs to be strengthened.Read more
BALTIMORE, 24 October 2009—ICMC US Liaison Officer, Jane Bloom, addresses the challenges of closing the protection gap for individuals who are especially vulnerable because of a lack of recognised nationality. Though statelessness is a root cause of refugee and migratory movement, it is also both a cause and effect of trafficking.Read more
NEW YORK, 17 December 2009—ICMC US Liaison Officer, Jane Bloom, advocates for workable protection and empowerment strategies for "under-served, often invisible, unprotected and highly vulnerable stateless people" before the UN Migration Committee, Committee on the Status of Women and the Committee on the Family.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
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