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   Belgium EU Commission strengthens the fight against trafficking in human beingsBRUSSELS, 29 March 2010 (Europa<)—The European Commission today proposed new rules to step up the fight against trafficking in human beings. The new proposal will help to combat modern slavery by ensuring consistency of national rules on crimes and penalties, better assistance for victims and tougher action to prosecute criminals responsible for trafficking.Read more< Europe Migrants at sea: Guidelines for EU border patrolsBRUSSELS, 25 March 2010 (European Parliament)—EU guidelines saying that border patrols have a moral duty to rescue migrants in distress at sea passed through the European Parliament on Thursday. Although a majority of MEPs voted to reject the non-binding guidelines in favour of binding legislation, they failed to muster the absolute majority of MEPs required.Read more<  Timisoara ICMC, Working Group on Resettlement meet in TimisoaraTIMISOARA, 11 March 2010—ICMC joins governments, UNHCR and twelve other NGOs for targeted discussions towards strengthening and enhancing common efforts on refugee resettlement during the annual meeting of the Working Group on Resettlement.Read more< Istanbul Migrants are ‘an opportunity for host societies’, European church meeting toldISTANBUL, 8 March 2010—Causes of migration are complex and multiple and often the reaction of host societies are mainly focussed around the fears and challenges which migration poses and not seeing the opportunity it provides to migrants and host societies, according to Doris Peschke, Director of the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME).Read more< Europe Human rights organisations urge EU governments to adapt border management to ensure that refugees can reach EuropeBRUSSELS, 24 February 2010 (ECRE<)—Preventing as many people as possible from entering Europe irregularly at all costs has become the most important objective of the EU’s migration policy.Read more<  ICMC Deployee ICMC Resettlement deployee instrumental in developing new tool for measuring refugee integrationBUDAPEST—ICMC deployee, Areti Sianni, has been instrumental in developing a new online tool that will help Central European governments measure how well refugees are becoming integrated within their new communities in countries of asylum.Read more<  |
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