AL-MINYA, LEBANON — For Mohammed al-Ahmad and his wife Zuhour, this is the second cold, wet winter of the war.
They passed the first in the Bab Amr district of Homs, a onetime rebel stronghold that was taken back by government forces last February, after a long and unrelenting siege. Much of the neighborhood was destroyed. They have no home to go back to.Read more<
As of 15 January, there were 638,286 Syrian refugees registered or awaiting registration in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Jordan and North Africa, a near tenfold increase compared to May 2012. Based on recent arrival trends, humanitarian agencies estimate these countries may be hosting 1.1 million Syrian refugees by end of June 2013. A new interagency Syria Regional Response Plan covering the period from January to June was therefore launched by UNHCR and its partners in December 2012 in Gene- va (see last page for information on funding requirements for the new RRP).Read more<
More than 60,000 innocent civilians have been slaughtered in President Bashar al-Assad’s desperate bid to retain power in Syria. In the two-year reign of terror, he has also forced staggering numbers of Syrians to relocate within the country or flee across the border, creating a disaster that is threatening to destabilize the region. The international community has an obligation to do more to ease the suffering.Read more<
Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney, who paid a visit to Syrians living in refugee camps in Turkey on Monday, has stated that his country would resettle up to 5,000 refugees currently living in Turkey by 2018.Read more<
ICMC distributed 220 winterization assistance packages (funded by ECHO) to extremely vulnerable Syrian refugees and host community members in Sarih, Irbid (in coordination with the Sarih Orphans Centre) and Ramtha (in coordination with Kitab Wa Sunna). Each beneficiary received a good quality gas heater, a gas cylinder and vouchers for three gas re-fills, allowing them to keep warm throughout the coldest period of the winter. In the coming days, ICMC will distribute a further 130 winterization assistance packages in Al-Mafraq.Read more<
November 9th 2012: Catholic Organizations coordinate their action to face humanitarian needs of affected populations in and out of SyriaRead more<
USA, 18 September 2012 - Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Anne C. Richard visited Istanbul to learn more about the situation of refugees in Turkey. At the Resettlement Support Center run by the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC), one of PRM's long-standing partners, she had the opportunity to meet with refugees from different countries and obtained an insight to ICMC's resettlement work in Turkey. Read more about Assistant Secretary of State Ms. Richard's experience on DipNote, the U.S. Department of State official blog.Read more<
GENEVA, 17 September 2012 - His Excellency Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and Other International Organizations, delivered a statement at the 21st Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva regarding the Interactive Dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.Read more<
TAIWAN, 27 June 2012 - Representatives from national Bishops Conferences in Asia and Johan Ketelers, Secretary General of the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC), gathered in Taiwan from 24 to 27 June, where they deliberated collaborative approaches to migration and the specific needs of migrant workers in and from Asia.Read more<
SANTA DOMINGO, 30 May 2012—Representatives of Bishops’ Conferences from ten (10) countries in Central America, Caribbean, the U.S., and Mexico gathered together in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for their fifth regional meeting on migration. This annual event works to promote the rights of migrants and evaluate country-specific church responses culminating in a statement which highlights priority needs and calls for action to close protection gaps of migrants.Read more<
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