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.
Middle East   Turkey Thousands flee Iran as noose tightensNEVSEHIR, Turkey, 11 December 2009—Sadegh Shojai fled Iran after government agents raided his Tehran apartment, seizing his computer and 700 copies of a book he published on staging revolutions.
Yemen Somalis overwhelm YemenKHARAZ CAMP, Yemen, 3 December 2009—Six-year-old Samira said she, her mother and her two brothers had spent the past week sleeping outside the door of an office waiting their turn to register as refugees.
Iraq US: Iraq needs to do more to help refugees returnBAGHDAD, 15 November 2009 (AP<)—The Iraqi government has taken strides to help refugees displaced by the violence in the country over recent years return home, but still "needs to do a heck of a lot more," a U.S. official said Saturday.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< Yemen Yemen's forgotten refugee crisisYEMEN, 11 October 2009 (The Guardian<)—As conditions in Yemen worsen, hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees are increasingly abandoned and abused.Read more< Gulf of Aden Latest smuggling incidents leave 65 dead or missing in the Gulf of AdenADEN, 15 September 15 (UNHCR<)—Three separate incidents involving smuggling boats in the perilous Gulf of Aden have left 16 people dead and 49 missing and presumed dead in the past few days.Read more<  |
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