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 & PresentationsICMC expresses the concerns of migrants and ICMC Members at international and regional platforms in Brussels, Geneva, Strasbourg and Washington DC. ICMC representatives further particpate in numerous high-level conferences and advocacy activities benefitting displaced people around the world, from Kiev to Nairobi, Mexico City to Manila. International Migrants Day Panel on Migrants in Crisis Situations: Human Security ConcernsNEW YORK, 13 December 2011—ICMC U.S. Liaison Officer Jane Bloom speaks before the Panel on Migrants in Crisis Situations at the United Nations in New York, highlighting the weakened and precarious human security of migrants in conflict situations and the ongoing and critical need to strengthen emergency response and assure protection of the most vulnerable.Read more 100th Session of the Council of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Protection, governance and partnership in the ‘Seventh Decade’GENEVA, 7 December 2011—Speaking at 100th Session of the Council of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), ICMC Head of Policy, John Bingham, emphasizes the need for greater global governance of migration, protection and partnership for the benefit of migrants and societies everywhere.Read more Thematic Workshop for the Global Forum on Migration and Development Panel I: Migration Profiles as an ongoing process and Ways to Improve themNEW YORK, 30 June 2011— Speaking at the Thematic Workshop for the Global Forum on Migration and Development at the United Nations in New York, ICMC Head of Policy, John Bingham, discusses the importance and evolution of the Migration Profiles project and civil society perspectives for improvement.Read more 2011 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 |
 
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