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.
Ethiopia    Voices From the Field Jason Bell helps children build new futures in third countriesETHIOPIA, 26 February 2014 (ICMC) - Although I have been working at the Mai Aini camp in Ethiopia for the past year, I never ceased to be amazed by the sight of hundreds of children running around, playing games, washing clothes and cooking meals with hardly any adults in sight. Placed within the hot and dusty hills of Ethopia’s northern Tigray region, The Mai Aini camp offers quite a contrast of the Iowa farmland of my youth. Despite a devastating border conflict with Eritrea from 1998-2000, Ethiopia now hosts tens of thousands of persons fleeing the very country it once fought against; approximately 1,000 of them are unaccompanied children.Read more< News bites Yemen: Migrants Abused, Tortured by Smugglers, reporst MSFSANA’A, YEMEN/NEW YORK, MAY 1, 2013—Authorities in Yemen have freed more than one thousand migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia, many suffering from torture and sexual abuse while forcibly held by human smugglers, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has treated the migrants, said today.Read more< Ethiopia Ethiopia opens new camp for Eritrean refugeesADDIS ABABA, 16 April 2010 (AFP<)—Ethiopia announced Thursday it has opened a new camp in the north of the country to accommodate the growing number of Eritrean refugees arriving each month.Read more< Ethiopia Archbishop calls for fight against trafficking and displacementVATICAN, 8 October 2009 (CISA<)—Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel calls for action in reducing human trafficking and reinforcing the human dignity of displaced persons at the October 2009 Synod on Africa.Read more<  After seven days of horror around the world "Mayday!"Responding to seven days filled with tragedy for boat people off the coasts of Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe, ICMC issues an international distress call for help to the victims. Read more<  Urgent Call for International Response to Boat People and Other Migrants Injured or Traumatized Crossing BordersThe Bishop of Djibouti is to make a direct appeal for an urgent response to migrant victims of violence this week in Geneva.Read more<  |
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