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.
Europe    "Paving the way": New handbook provides ‘rich inspiration’ for refugee resettlement in EuropeBRUSSELS, 7 June 2011—Joined by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Catholic Migration Commission launched today a new handbook for policy makers and local practitioners working in the area of refugee reception and integration.Read more< Tunisians save hundreds as another Lampedusa-bound boat capsizesTUNISIA, 3 June 2011 (UNHCR<)—At least 150 people have drowned and scores remain missing following a boat capsizing off the Tunisian coast on Wednesday afternoon. This appears to be one of the worst and the deadliest incidents in the Mediterranean so far this year.Read more<  A regional workshop to exchange practices and expertise Responding to boat arrivals and mixed migration flows in the MediterraneanSICILY, 10 May 2011—Lending a particular sense of urgency to the issues at hand, nearly one thousand migrants arrived at the island of Lampedusa last week as policy makers, public service providers and local practitioners from eight European countries gathered in Catania, Italy for an experts workshop on practical responses to boat arrivals and mixed migration flows in the Mediterranean.Read more< Commission mixte Méditerranée Les évêques de la Méditerranée pour un autre regard sur les migrantsTUNIS, 4 mai 2011 (La Croix<)—L’immigration était au cœur d’une rencontre entre évêques catholiques d’Europe et du Maghreb, qui s’est achevée hier à Tunis.Read more< Growing numbers of unaccompanied minors seek asylum in BelgiumSTEENOKKERZEEL, Belgium, May 2 (UNHCR<)⎯The UN refugee agency and the Belgian government are increasingly alarmed at the rising number of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the Western European country and at how young many of them are.Read more< Eritrean refugees arrive in Romanian emergency transit centre from TunisiaTIMISOARA, Romania, 20 April 2011 (UNHCR<)—Thirty Eritrean refugees have arrived at an emergency transit centre in western Romania after fleeing Libya and spending weeks in a crowded camp in Tunisia as UNHCR and its partners sought a solution for them.Read more<  |
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