Focus on the Middle EastReaching out to vulnerable displaced IraqisDisplaced by conflict and lack of security at home, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi families have sought refuge in neighbouring countries including Jordan and Syria. ICMC is reaching out to vulnerable displaced Iraqis by providing outreach, humanitarian and medical assistance, education and training, as well as support for resettlement.Read more |
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.
   ICMC NewsHaiti Catholic service agencies call for rigorous safeguards in protecting Haitian children A fresh look at managing international migration Connecting the dots ICMC Governing Committee Church leaders share vision on migration at 109th meeting of the ICMC Governing Committee VIENNA, 23 January 2010—High-level Church leaders gathered in Vienna discuss global approaches to migration and appeal for solidarity with Haiti at the 109th meeting of the International Catholic Migration Commission Governing Committee.Read more Pakistan ICMC Pakistan launches new publication on the promotion of access to services and protection for vulnerable people ISLAMABAD, January 2010—ICMC Pakistan has released a new publication entitled Promotion of access to services and protection for vulnerable people in Northern Pakistan: A field-based review of gender approaches as part of an effort to integrate gender mainstreaming in project planning and field activities, offering a collection of good practices in addressing gender-based power imbalances between men and women in project programming.Read more Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the UN A perilous realm: The stateless-migrant nexusNEW 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 Turkey ICMC joins US officials in promoting refugee resettlement to the USTURKEY, 5-13 November 2009—ICMC representatives join delegates from the US Department of State, the American embassy and the UN Refugee Agency in a field mission to promote and strengthen the US refugee resettlement process locally.Read more |
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