GENEVA, 24 October 2013 (ICMC) – Today the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) commends the United Nations for its crucial role in propelling concerted, global efforts to achieve peace and inclusive progress. Today marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the United Nations Charter, which founded the UN.
One of the UN’s invaluable contributions to the protection of vulnerable displaced people around the world is to promote international dialogue on migration – a preferred alternative to the options of violence and “selfish indifference”, to use the words of Pope Francis.Read more<
GENEVA, 21 October 2013 (ICMC) – As another flood reportedly took 180 lives and affected over 1.5 million people in Pakistan, ICMC launched a programme mid-August to support vulnerable women and children better prepare to resist landslides, earthquakes, and flooding.
In 2010, floods already had displaced over 11 million people in the Pakistan.Read more<
30 September 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (ICMC) -– Art is helping some 100 Burmese refugee teenagers in Malaysia become aware of and learn how to combat sexual and gender-based violence, and call for respectful relationships within their communities.
The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC), in collaboration with its mini-grant recipient, the Kachin Refugee Learning Centre, has launched an art contest based on the themes of ‘Say No to Violence’ and ‘Respect’.Read more<
GENEVA, September 27 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Friday welcomed this week's announcement by Brazil's National Committee for Refugees (CONARE) of special humanitarian visas for Syrians and other nationals affected by the Syrian conflict and who wish to seek refuge in Brazil.Read more<
In his most extensive and revealing interview since he was elected in March, Pope Francis sat for a series of talks in August with a fellow Jesuit, the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, the editor of the leading Jesuit journal in Rome. The pope, formerly a cardinal, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, spoke of the mistakes he feels he made when he became the superior of his Jesuit province in Argentina at the “crazy” young age of 36. He talked about his vision of the church, and why he has chosen not to spend much time talking about abortion, gay marriage and contraception. He explained what he meant by the headline-grabbing remark he made about gay people: “Who am I to judge?” And he said that doubt is essential to finding God.Read more<
20 September 2013, Geneva (ICMC) – Sister Angélique Namaika, braving danger on a daily basis to help people of the Democratic Republic of Congo to start again, uses education and skills training to build lasting peace and stability for the poor, traumatised and forcibly displaced.
The United Nations refugee agency will on 30 September celebrate Sister Angélique’s award of the 2013 Nansen Refugee prize for her work with women in the Congo, condemned as the “rape capital of the world”, as more than 200,000 women have been raped there since the breakout of violence in 1998.Read more<
Faces of Resettlement features the stories of five individuals who entered the United States as refugees and who are making positive contributions to their communities. Told in their own voices, the video highlights the resiliency that characterizes refugees’ journeys of fleeing their homelands and rebuilding their lives in cities all across the United States. Faces of Resettlement also includes interviews with receiving community members who have been deeply touched by the friendship and contributions of their newest neighbors.Read more<
A nun working with survivors of displacement and abuse by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in a remote corner of the DR Congo has been awarded the world’s most prestigious refugee prize, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has said.Read more<
GENEVA, September 17 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Tuesday announced this year's Nansen Refugee Award is being presented to Sister Angélique Namaika, who works in a remote north-east region of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with survivors of displacement and abuse by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).Read more<
Sister Angelique Namaika works in the remote Congolese village of Dungu with survivors of displacement and abuse by the Lord's Resistance Army. She founded the Centre for Reintegration and Development which has helped transform the lives of more than 2,000 women and girls who have been forced from their homes and abused.
Many of those she helps recount stories of abduction, forced labour, beatings, murder, and rape.Read more<
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