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.
   Asia Consultation on migration issues and priorities in AsiaMANILA, 21 August 2008 — The International Catholic Migration Commission, in cooperation with the CBCP's Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (ECMI), will organize a Consultation on migration issues and priorities in Asia in Manila on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 August 2008.Read more< Migrant rights ICMC applauded for policy workGENEVA, 15 August 2008 — In an August 2008 research paper by Alexander Betts, Director of the Global Migration Governance Project at the University of Oxford, ICMC is applauded for its work in pursuing the protection of irregular migrants' human rights through valuable leadership of NGO activism on the policy framework level.Read more< The Vatican Holy See grants ICMC new juridical statusVATICAN 14 July 2008 — ICMC has officially been granted new juridical status by the Holy See, in better accordance with its current identity and activities.Read more< Jordan ICMC, UNHCR offer regional resettlement trainingAMMAN, 6 December 2007 (ICMC) — ICMC's Resettlement Deployment Scheme and UNHCR's Resettlement Section co-organized a training workshop in Amman, Jordan focusing on refugee protection and resettlement.Read more< Spain Canary Islands crisis addressed by ICMC Secretary GeneralGENEVA 5 September 2006 (ICMC) — Following the recent wave of migrants that have landed and continue to land in the Canary Islands, most in appalling conditions, ICMC wishes to express grave concern about the factors that lead to such dangerous migration and the response of government and civil society.Read more< Sri Lanka ICMC deplores death of Action Against Hunger aid workersGENEVA 8 August 2006 (ICMC) — ICMC expresses its condolences and its deepest sympathy to the families and to Action Against Hunger of the 17 aid workers found dead in the Sri Lankan town of Muttur while carrying out humanitarian aid work.Read more< United States ICMC speaks at United Nations on Migration DevelopmentNEW YORK, 12 July 2006 (ICMC) — ICMC was invited to speak at the interactive hearings that the United Nations is holding with NGOs, civil society and the private sector in New York on July 12, as an important part of the UN's High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in September.Read more< Vatican City ICMC convenes 54th Council meetingROME 3 July 2006 (ICMC) — ICMC's 54th COUNCIL Meeting was held 1-3 July at the Casa Bonus Pastor in Rome, Italy.Read more< Jared Bloch Appointed Coordinator of ICMC's Deployment SchemeCoordinator of ICMC's Resettlement Deployment Scheme chosen, Jared Bloch appointed.Read more<
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