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.
Yemen   News bites Yemen: Migrants Abused, Tortured by Smugglers, reporst MSFSANA’A, YEMEN/NEW YORK, MAY 1, 2013—Authorities in Yemen have freed more than one thousand migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia, many suffering from torture and sexual abuse while forcibly held by human smugglers, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has treated the migrants, said today.Read more< Yemen Somali refugee flow slows down despite ongoing violenceADEN, 9 April 2010 (AlertNet<)—The number of people crossing the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea in the mixed migration flow from the Horn of Africa has nearly halved during the first quarter of the year in comparison with the same period in 2009. Since the beginning of the year, some 9,400 people reached the shores of Yemen in contrast to nearly 17,000 between January and March 2009.Read more< Horn of Africa Somali refugees risk passage to YemenYEMEN, 15 February 2010 (The Los Angeles Times<)—Fleeing civil war and poverty, Somalis take rickety boats to Yemen, the poorest Arab country. Yemen officials say they have a 'moral obligation' to accept the refugees, many of whom don't make it.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<  Turkey US Consul General visits ICMC TurkeyISTANBUL 5 February 5, 2009 — ICMC Turkey, the regional Overseas Processing Entity (OPE) for the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, had the pleasure of receiving Sharon Wiener, the United States Consul General in Istanbul.Read more<  |
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