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.
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya   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< 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< Libya Libya: End live fire against suspected boat migrants16 September (HRW<)—The Libyans and Italians appear to agree that it was a mistake to shoot at Italian fishermen, but imply that it's OK to shoot at migrants. The bullet-riddled boat shows a reckless use of potentially lethal force that would have been just as bad if it had actually targeted non-threatening migrants.Read more< The Mediterranean Scores of migrants perish at seaROME, 21 August 2009 (BBC News<) — About 75 illegal immigrants from Africa have died while travelling on a crowded rubber dinghy between Libya and Italy.Read more< The Mediterranean UNHCR interviews asylum seekers pushed back to LibyaGENEVA, 14 July 2009 (UNHCR<) — UNHCR staff in Libya have been carrying out interviews with 82 people who were intercepted by the Italian Navy on the high seas on July 1 about 30 nautical miles from the Italian island of Lampedusa.Read more<  |
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