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.
2007 UNHCR High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges Call for the formal recognition of gaps in protection for migrant victims of violence and trauma crossing borders and a collaborative international reponse   Display under:
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2007 UNHCR High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges
GENEVA 12 December 2007 - ICMC underscores the need to work together now to ensure that the complimentary capacities of civil society, governments and international organisations provide more pragmatic responses for those with urgent protection needs. We all know that mixed migration flows are complicated. But the need for protection is not. Protecting migrant victims of violence or trauma does not mean expanding the mandate of the UN Refugee Agency, nor reducing or otherwise infringing upon the body of international law that has guaranteed the protection of refugees for the past half century. What it does mean, is responding to the body of international law that has guaranteed the protection of refugees for the past half century; doing so would also guarantee the increased effectiveness of current efforts to ensure the protection space for 1951 Convention refugees. At the UN High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, ICMC calls for the formal recognition of the gaps in response to migrants in need of special protection, and an acknowledgement that the UN Refugee Agency does indeed have a role to play in mixed migration issues. no |
 
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