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. 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 International Federation of Catholic Universities Colloquium Mobility 'slicing' and fuller societal responseBOGOTA, 21 June 2010—ICMC Secretary General travels to Colombia to engage in exchange with academics from Asia and Latin America in an International Federation of Catholic Universities colloquium on displacement. In his opening presentation, Ketelers stressed that, in addition to methodological approaches to identifying distinct categories among the displaced, the "real focus of our concern" must lie with the human person.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 Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People ICMC Secretary General calls for new models of co-responsibilityROME, 26 May 2010—In his role as ICMC Secretary General and Chair of the Forum of Catholic-Inspired International NGOs, Johan Ketelers underscores the need to collaboratively approach today's global challenges from a human perspective, and with an honest recognition of the many needs and existing inequities.Read more CCEE Congress on People in Movement ICMC Secretary General: "Migration is urgent invitation to respond to global challenges"MALAGA, 30 April 2010—ICMC Secretary General, Johan Ketelers, offers both perspective on aspects of societal processes related to and/or generated by migration, and possible strategic paths of committment, within the context of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences Congress on Overcoming fears, outlining prospects in migration.Read more UNDESA Activities on international migration and development: International Catholic Migration CommissionNEW YORK, 16 November 2009—Presented at the UNDESA Eighth Coordination Meeting on International Migration, this paper responds to the invitation to describe current and planned activities in the area of international migration and development.Read more |
 
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