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.
Africa    ICMC responds to emergency situation in Libya, urgently deploying protection experts to Egypt and TunisiaGENEVA, 17 March 2011—Amid urgent calls for the protection of those fleeing violence in Libya, ICMC bolsters key partnerships and rapidly deploys six refugee protection experts to UNHCR emergency resettlement operations in Egypt and Tunisia, assisting efforts to find solutions for the increasing number of refugees in the region.Read more< Improved sea conditions cited as reason for large migrant arrivals to LampedusaROME, 8 March 2011—Another nine boats carrying 660 irregular migrants, all Tunisian, arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa last night. The migrants are said to have left from Tunisa.Read more< UNHCR calls for international support for Tunisia and Egypt amid exodus from LibyaGENEVA, 25 February 2011—UNHCR commends the humanitarian spirit shown by the Tunisian and Egyptian governments in welcoming and caring for people fleeing Libya. In addition we are seeing unprecedented support being offered by local people who are driving to the borders of both countries to help. We call upon the international community to provide substantial humanitarian support for these two countries.Read more< Fleeing turmoil in North Africa: Need for shared regional response and protection urgentBRUSSELS, 24 February 2011—Already in recent weeks, more than 5,000 boat people have arrived to the Italian island of Lampedusa from Tunisia; some 32,000 boat people arrived to that same island in 2008—before governments in the region abruptly cut off departures from North Africa.Read more< Eight asylum-seekers suffocate in Mozambique en route to South AfricaGENEVA, 8 February 2011 (UNHCR<)—Over the weekend, UNHCR learned of the deaths by suffocation on 2 February of eight Ethiopian asylum-seekers aboard a closed container truck in Mozambique. Police say the eight were among a group of 26 young Ethiopian men who were trying to reach South Africa from the Maratane refugee camp in northern Mozambique.Read more< Libya Statement by Jesuit Refugee Service Malta on Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Libya1 March 2011 (JRS Malta<)—Some 2000 Eritrean asylum seekers stranded in Libya have made a desperate appeal for help to the Catholic Church in Tripoli. Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, has urged the international community to rescue them by providing a way out of Libya to safety.Read more<  |
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