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.
Europe   CCEE Congress on People in Movement 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< Belgium Wasting skills and talents is an economic and social nonsenseBRUSSELS, 15 April 2010 (ECRE)<—Today and tomorrow, EU Integration Ministers will meet in Spain to discuss immigrant integration policies, including migrants’ access to employment. The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) urges Ministers to make the most of refugees and asylum seekers’ talent by enabling them to participate in the labour market.Read more< Brussels Migrant integration: Commission announces a new EU strategy and presents the third 'Handbook' at the Zaragoza Ministerial ConferenceBRUSSELS, 15 April 2010 (EUROPA<)—Representatives from all Member States are gathering for two days in Zaragoza from 15 to 16 April to discuss how migrant integration can become a driver for social cohesion in the EU. At this Ministerial Conference, the European Commission will release the third edition of its 'Handbook on Integration for policy-makers and practitioners', focussing on the role of mass media in integration, the importance of awareness-raising and migrant empowerment, dialogue platforms, acquisition of nationality and practice of active citizenship, immigrant youth, education and the labour market. The 'Handbook' completes the set of measures foreseen by the 2005 Common Agenda for Integration, which also included the setting up of the National Contact Points on Integration, the European Web Site on Integration, the European Integration Forum and the European Fund for the Integration of Third-country Nationals. Commissioner Malmström has announced a new EU strategy on integration for the coming years.Read more< Europe MEPs call for EU money for Member States willing to host refugeesBRUSSELS, 8 April 2010 (European Parliament<)—Member States volunteering to receive refugees sheltered by third countries should receive up to €6000 from the EU refugee fund per person resettled, suggested Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee on Thursday. EU countries contribute to resettlement far less than other developed countries like the US, Australia and Canada, stressed MEPs. They also repeated their call for internal EU solidarity with Member States facing special pressures.Read more< Europe ECHR looks at Italy’s asylum policySTRASBOURG, 7 April 2010 (Radio Netherlands Worldwide<)—The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is considering a landmark lawsuit filed by 23 asylum seekers against the Italian state, which in the past year has intercepted boats filled with potential migrants in international waters and shipping them off to Libya.Read more< Europe Germany and Greece agree to cooperate on asylum policyBERLIN, 1 April 2010 (Earth Times<)—Germany and Greece signed an agreement on Thursday to cooperate more closely on asylum procedures, aimed in part at improving the process by which EU states decide where refugees should register their claims.Read more<  |
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