The International Catholic Migration Commission
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
   Statements and Presentations2011 UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs Triple jeopardy: Young, migrant and statelessGENEVA, 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 UN Human Rights Council Call for protection and assistance to migrants kidnapped and assaulted for ransom in the Sinai desert and elsewhereGENEVA, 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 Meeting of the International Youth Catholic Students Global governance in migration: Opting for a well-conceived processROME, 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 Good Shepherd Asia Pacific Workshop From migration to trafficking: A slippery slopeKUALA 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 SECAM-ICMC African Consultation Message issued by the African participants of the SECAM-ICMC Consultation on migrationROME, 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 Global Migration Group Experts' Meeting A snapshot of the international human rights framework relevant for migrants in an irregular situationGENEVA, 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 Global Migration Group Irregular migrants: Ensuring the effective protection and promotion of their human rightsGENEVA, 30 September 2010—On the occasion of the Principals Meeting of the Global Migration Group, ICMC Secretary General, Johan Ketelers, addressed global migration leaders, encouraging them to speak with one voice on the rights and protection of irregular migrants, establish a working group on irregular migration and see and seize common grounds for better balance in global migration governance. Read more Annual UNHCR consultations with NGOs Boat people: Different people, different needs and rights to protectionGENEVA, 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 Europe Christian organisations comment on proposed recasts of European directives on asylumBRUSSELS, June 2010—Christian organisations representing Churches throughout Europe offer joint comments on the recast asylum directives in Europe, calling for a "more ambitious and constructive approach in the Council negotiations".Read more |
 
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