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.
Pakistan    ICMC Pakistan Families displaced by landslide receive essential aidISLAMABAD, 17 February 2010—Following days of torrential rains, ICMC and the Strengthening Participatory Organization reach out to families affected by massive landslides that caused four Northern Pakistani villages to slide into a nearby lake, causing serious damage to hundreds of homes and businesses.Read more<  Focus on Pakistan New documentary video highlights impact of ICMC’s work with most vulnerableIn a new documentary video, community members once considered “extremely vulnerable” share personal stories of how their lives have changed as a result of support provided by ICMC and local NGO partners in Northern Pakistan.Read more< Pakistan Pakistan: Aid workers bracing for possible new IDP influxISLAMABAD, 26 January 2010 (IRIN<) - Aid agencies are preparing for an influx of a possible further 150,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northwestern Pakistan in 2010, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and other agencies.  ICMC Pakistan ICMC Pakistan launches new publication on the promotion of access to services and protection for vulnerable peopleISLAMABAD, 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< Pakistan Pakistan offensive heightens fear of refugee crisisISLAMABAD, 21 October 2009 (WSJ<)—Thousands of refugees fled a Pakistani offensive against Taliban militants Tuesday, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis compounded by dangerous conditions and the onset of winter weather.Read more< ICMC Pakistan Achieving a sustainable source of incomeFaruq Hafeez* shares his story about how a microcredit grant received through ICMC Pakistan and the Sarhad Rural Support Programme changed his life and the well being of his family.Read more<  |
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