Taking convergence forward: New responsibility sharing and cooperation in migration, mobility and human development

Civil society is a converging network of actors genuinely aiming to collaborate better. While it is understood that many partners are in themselves already important networks (just like ICMC is through its worldwide network of members), the bigger network that is under construction will span many more and many different types of actors.

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Not crossing red lines – a negotiators’ checklist on minimum detention safeguards

BRUSSELS, 7 May 2012—ICMC has joined an appeal to the EU institutions to uphold essential safeguards in EU legislation on detention of asylum seekers. The appeal “Not crossing red lines – A negotiator’s checklist on minimum detention safeguards” was signed by 166 organisations.Read more

Triple jeopardy: Young, migrant and stateless

GENEVA, 28 June 2011—Speaking as part of a panel of experts at the UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs, ICMC U.S. Liason Officer, Jane Bloom, discusses the intersections of migration and trafficking, of demographic imbalances and mobility, of cross-border marriages and lapses of nationality, all of which are "unfinished pieces" of the rapidly expanding globalization puzzle.Read more

Call for protection and assistance to migrants kidnapped and assaulted for ransom in the Sinai desert and elsewhere

GENEVA, 6 June 2011—Ethiopian Bishops’ Conference Secretary General and ICMC member, Abba Hagos Hayish, makes a plea to governments, international organizations and civil society representatives gathered at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, calling for action on behalf of the hundreds of migrants kidnapped and held hostage for ransom in the Sinai desert.Read more

Global governance in migration: Opting for a well-conceived process

ROME, 25 February 2011—Within the context of the global governance of migration, ICMC Secretary General Johan Ketelers emphasizes the need for long-term thinking, consideration of new relational viewpoints in which human dignity and family values remain prevalent, policies of inclusion and the consolidatation of societal cohesion in new, creative and proactive ways.Read more

From migration to trafficking: A slippery slope

KUALA LUMPUR, 16 February 2011—Gathered together with more than 50 counter trafficking experts from across South East Asia, ICMC U.S. Liaison Officer Jane Bloom presented workshop participants with an analysis of the multiple facets for migration and trafficking and the church's collective role in preventing trafficking, and in protecting those most likely to become victims.Read more

Message issued by the African participants of the SECAM-ICMC Consultation on migration

ROME, 17 November 2010—Leaders representing twenty-two national and regional Bishops’ Conferences of Africa share their final message following deliberations on new collaborative approaches to migration in and from the region.Read more

A snapshot of the international human rights framework relevant for migrants in an irregular situation

GENEVA, 22 October 2010—Speaking at the Global Migration Group Experts' Meeting in Geneva, ICMC Head of Policy, John Bingham, speaks to the importance of the UN Migrant Workers' Convention and its ability to "open the way to the conversation societies need to have about a fair balance of rights and obligations."Read more

Boat people: Different people, different needs and rights to protection

GENEVA, 1 July 2010—Stressing the need for a first focus on immediate response to all individuals who have undergone dangerous border crossings, and a secondary focus on differentiation for the particular rights and responses that many are entitled to under international and regional conventions, ICMC DRIVE Referral Coordinator, Alice Bloomfield chaired a hearing on boat people among key NGO, IFRC, UNHCR and UNODC representatives. Read more