GENEVA, 17 September 2010 (UNHCR<)—This week we have received reports of a killing and drownings in the Gulf of Aden, indicating that the autumn mixed-migration sailing season has resumed.Read more<
16 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<
CHICAGO, 26 August 2010 (NALACC<)—On Wednesday August 24, 2010, news began to come out about one of the worst massacres ever occurred in Mexico, near the border with Brownsville, TX. According to news reports, the 72 bodies discovered were all Latin American migrants, mostly from El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador and Brazil. In response to this abhorrent and sad news, leaders of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC), the largest umbrella organization of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants in the U.S., issued the following statement.Read more<
28 August 2010 (AFP<)—The Czech Republic's foreign minister on Saturday condemned France's expulsion of Roma Gypsies and said he could not avoid the suspicion that 'racist' thinking played a part in the policy.Read more<
27 August 2010—Doctors have removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan housemaid who said her employer in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body.Read more<
18 August 2010 (NY Times<)—Standing under leaden skies in Pakistan last Sunday, I saw a sea of suffering. Flood waters have washed away thousands of towns and villages. Roads, bridges and homes in every province of the country have been destroyed.Read more<
14 July 2010—Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith is on his way to Indonesia for talks about plans for a regional refugee processing centre.Read more<
THESSALONIKI, Greece, 30 June 2010 (Hurriyet Daily News<)—Greek police have found the bodies of 16 migrants believed to have drowned in a river that flows along the Turkey-Greek border as they tried to enter the country, a police source said Wednesday.Read more<
AL HASSAKEH, 18 June 2010 (UNHCR<)—UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, announced today a major landmark in resettlement of Iraqi refugees, with 100,000 people having been referred for resettlement from the Middle East to third countries since 2007. Guterres made the announcement during his visit to Syria, which according to government estimates, hosts over 1 million refugees, the majority from Iraq.Read more<
UNHCR was saddened to learn this week of the deaths of nine Somali asylum-seekers off the coast of Mozambique on May 30th. They were part of a larger group of 77 Somali nationals trying to reach Mozambique by boat, and 41 of whom were forced into the water. Among those on board were two women and a 14-year-old boy. Their husband and father was among the dead.Read more<
MANILA, 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<
GENEVA, 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<
VATICAN 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<
AMMAN, 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<
GENEVA 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<
GENEVA 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<
NEW 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<
ROME 3 July 2006 (ICMC) — ICMC's 54th COUNCIL Meeting was held 1-3 July at the Casa Bonus Pastor in Rome, Italy.Read more<
Coordinator of ICMC's Resettlement Deployment Scheme chosen, Jared Bloch appointed.Read more<
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