8 June 2011 (UN News Service<)—The United Nations’ lead anti-crime official and Pope Benedict XVI conferred today on ways to expand common efforts in the battles against drugs, crime and other social and health challenges throughout the world.Read more<
GENEVA, 4 July 2011 (UNHCR<)—The UN refugee agency called on Monday for increased resettlement places for the most vulnerable among the 10.5 million refugees under its mandate.Read more<
TUNISIA, 3 June 2011 (UNHCR<)—At least 150 people have drowned and scores remain missing following a boat capsizing off the Tunisian coast on Wednesday afternoon. This appears to be one of the worst and the deadliest incidents in the Mediterranean so far this year.Read more<
3 June 2011 (Aljazeera<)—Little attention has been given in the post-conflict reconstruction of Iraq to the health and well-being of refugees and their children. Indeed, with the advent of the Arab Spring, the situation of displaced Iraqi refugees has left media, public and national policy agendas altogether. But almost a decade after US and British troops first touched down on Iraqi soil, families continue to lack basic resources. Children are living in a very fragile and tense social environment—which in countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon is getting worse by the day, given the current social uprisings.Read more<
CHOUCHA CAMP, Tunisia, May 27 2011 (UNHCR<)—The UN refugee agency has urged donor and resettlement countries to step up assistance for thousands of refugees and migrant workers caught up in this week's disturbances at a camp near the Tunisia-Libya border.Read more<
GENEVA, 17 May 2011 (UNHCR<)⎯Hundreds of people who had fled Libya for Tunisia and Egypt in recent weeks, have crossed back into Libya with the intention of boarding boats to reach Europe. Among them are refugees, including members of the Somali, Ethiopian and Eritrean communities in the camps at Shousha near Tunisia’s border with Libya.Read more<
STEENOKKERZEEL, Belgium, May 2 (UNHCR<)⎯The UN refugee agency and the Belgian government are increasingly alarmed at the rising number of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the Western European country and at how young many of them are.Read more<
TIMISOARA, Romania, 20 April 2011 (UNHCR<)—Thirty Eritrean refugees have arrived at an emergency transit centre in western Romania after fleeing Libya and spending weeks in a crowded camp in Tunisia as UNHCR and its partners sought a solution for them.Read more<
STRASBOURG, 14 April 11 (CoE<)⎯As illustrated by the current crisis in North Africa, Europe needs to establish more humane migration management and improve the treatment reserved for migrants. The European Union and the Council of Europe should co-operate more closely on this, ensuring that any EU policy abides fully by human rights standards”, said today the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, in presenting the conclusions of the seminar on the human rights dimensions of migration in Europe organised in Istanbul on 17-18 February.Read more<
MILAN, 13 April 2011 (TerraSanta.net<)—Many Iraqi refugees in Jordan are falling into poverty because the government prohibits them from working or settling in the country, a Vatican official has said.Read more<
16 August 2010— The Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF) urges the international community to play its part in meeting the immediate needs of millions of Pakistanis, as well as tens of thousands of Afghan refugees, and also warns that without long-term funding, rebuilding this devastated country will prove virtually impossible.Read more<
BRAZIL, 6 August 2010—Concerned by continuing upward trends in human trafficking, representatives of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Brazil (CNBB), the Ministry of Justice of Brazil, community leaders, members of civil society and members of the press joined with the Church organization Sector Pastoral da Mobilidade Humana (Sector of Human Mobility) of Brazil to reaffirm their commitment to strengthen anti-human trafficking efforts, launching a new publication entitled, Confronting human trafficking.Read more<
GENEVA, 6 August 2010—Humanitarian disaster faces Pakistan in the aftermath of the heaviest monsoon rains in the country’s history. Heavy flooding due to these rains has left over 1500 dead and has affected at least 6 million people,most of whom are in urgent need of food, safe drinking water, as well as medical services.Read more<
SINTRA, PORTUGAL, 16 June 2010—Over 45 participants and facilitators from 13 European countries gathered in Sintra last week for three days of networking and targeted knowledge-sharing on the reception and integration of resettled refugees.Read more<
AUSTRALIA, June 2010—Longserving ICMC Governing Committee Member Sister Maryanne Loughry R.S.M., received Australia’s highest honours last month, when she was granted a Member of the Order of Australia award in recognition of decades’ worth of service to migrants and refugees.Read more<
GENEVA, June 2010—The rights and responsibilities of migrant domestic workers took centre stage at the International Labour Organization’s 99th Annual Conference in Geneva last month, where ICMC joined with the Holy See and faith-based organizations including Caritas Internationalis, Kolping International and numerous civil society groups in insisting upon the urgent need for formal guarantees of international protection.Read more<
GENEVA, 28 June 2010—Join UNHCR and ICMC on Thursday, July 1 2010 from 13:15-14:45 (Palais des Nations, Geneva, Room XXII) at YOUR presentation—a hearing board on how the needs of displaced people forced to flee by boat can be differentiated and matched to their rights, and to practical responses of protection and assistance.Read more<
KOTA KINABALU, MALAYSIA—In a press conference held with members of the Malaysian media, ICMC and Archdiocesan Human Development Committee (AHDC) representatives shared how they will be intensifying efforts to raise public awareness of human trafficking, and strengthen the capacity of local organizations involved in counter-trafficking work.Read more<
GENEVA, 20 June 2010—As the United Nations has centered the theme for today’s World Day of Refugees on “home,” it is helpful to recall that one insight and expression widely shared among many of the world’s cultures and languages is that often something becomes properly or especially appreciated only after it is lost.
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GENEVA, 7 June 2010—ICMC is pleased to welcome and introduce Mr. Shabarinath NAIR, who is joining the ICMC Secretariat today as Policy Associate, working with John Bingham in the role that Alanna Ryan had served prior to moving to head up ICMC Communications.Read more<
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