Irregular migrants: Ensuring the effective protection and promotion of their human rights

GENEVA, 30 September 2010—On the occasion of the Principals Meeting of the Global Migration Group, ICMC Secretary General, Johan Ketelers, addressed global migration leaders, encouraging them to speak with one voice on the rights and protection of irregular migrants, establish a working group on irregular migration and see and seize common grounds for better balance in global migration governance. Read more<

Mobility 'slicing' and fuller societal response

BOGOTA, 21 June 2010—ICMC Secretary General travels to Colombia to engage in exchange with academics from Asia and Latin America in an International Federation of Catholic Universities colloquium on displacement.  In his opening presentation, Ketelers stressed that, in addition to methodological approaches to identifying distinct categories among the displaced, the "real focus of our concern" must lie with the human person.Read more<

Christian organisations comment on proposed recasts of European directives on asylum

BRUSSELS, June 2010—Christian organisations representing Churches throughout Europe offer joint comments on the recast asylum directives in Europe, calling for a "more ambitious and constructive approach in the Council negotiations".Read more<

ICMC Secretary General calls for new models of co-responsibility

ROME, 26 May 2010—In his role as ICMC Secretary General and Chair of the Forum of Catholic-Inspired International NGOs, Johan Ketelers underscores the need to collaboratively approach today's global challenges from a human perspective, and with an honest recognition of the many needs and existing inequities.Read more<

ICMC Secretary General: "Migration is urgent invitation to respond to global challenges"

MALAGA, 30 April 2010—ICMC Secretary General, Johan Ketelers, offers both perspective on aspects of societal processes related to and/or generated by migration, and possible strategic paths of committment, within the context of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences Congress on Overcoming fears, outlining prospects in migration.Read more<

Solid steps forward on protecting migrant domestic workers

GENEVA, 30 April 2010—Speaking on behalf of ICMC and its worldwide network of Church members, and on behalf of the International NGO Platorm on the Migrant Workers' Convention, ICMC Head of Policy and NGO Platform Chair, John Bingham, applauds the committment of the UN Committee on Migrant Workers to migrant domestic worker rights, and underscores the tremendous value and importance of the proposed General Comment on migrant domestic workers.Read more<

NGOs to governments: "Birth registration vital for safeguarding family unity"

GENEVA, 3 March 2010—ICMC joins with like-minded NGOs in stressing to governments that birth registration is an essential element of both child protection, and the protection of families, at the March Standing Committee meeting of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.Read more<

A perilous realm: The stateless-migrant nexus

NEW YORK, 17 December 2009—ICMC US Liaison Officer, Jane Bloom, advocates for workable protection and empowerment strategies for "under-served, often invisible, unprotected and highly vulnerable stateless people" before the UN Migration Committee, Committee on the Status of Women and the Committee on the Family.Read more<

Activities on international migration and development: International Catholic Migration Commission

NEW YORK, 16 November 2009—Presented at the UNDESA Eighth Coordination Meeting on International Migration, this paper responds to the invitation to describe current and planned activities in the area of international migration and development.Read more<

Case identification: Challenges posed by urban refugees

This paper was prepared for the tripartite partners, UNHCR, resettlement country governments, and non-governmental organizations, for the Annual Tripartite Consultations on Refugee Resettlement.

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