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Assist survivors of violence and trauma

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Combating gender-based violence (GBV) among urban refugees in Malaysia

Gender Based Violence (GBV) takes many forms, including physical, verbal, and sexual abuse as well as deprivation techniques (financial, legal, psychological) designed to control and disempower the victims. The perpetrators can be spouses, parents, siblings, and members of the refugee community, employers, or authority figures, such as police or soldiers.Read more<

Stranded Haitian children find new hope for the future

WASHINGTON, 25 March 2011—More than one year after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, unaccompanied Haitian children with especially complex situations remain ‘in limbo’ in shelters in the Dominican Republic (DR), awaiting decisions on their best long term interests for the future.Read more<

Haiti

Deportations to Haiti should be halted, say USCCB Migration Committee Chair and Chairman of Catholic Relief Services

WASHINGTON, 7 February 2011 (USCCB<)—In a joint letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano February 7, Archbishop José H. Gomez, Coadjutor Archbishop of Los Angeles and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, and Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, chairman of the Board of Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ international humanitarian agency, expressed opposition to the recent resumption of deportations to the nation of Haiti.Read more<

Voices of hope: A young family

A newborn baby is the center of attention in Kamal's* family. The baby boy, Marwan*, was born in September with jaundice and received needed medical care through the ICMC-Caritas project. Thankfully, he has recovered and now yawns sleepily in his mother’s arms.

The peeling walls and cold cement floor of their one-bedroom apartment in Abu Alanda, in southern Amman, offer few comforts to the young family of seven. The family also suffered the loss of a child earlier this year to a neurological condition.Read more<

Background paper

Women in need of international protection

This background paper was prepared for the Caritas Internationalis conference on "The female face of migration", held in Saly, Senegal in December 2010.  It addresses displacement,and the need to integrate women’s issues in all stages of programme planning, women-oriented policies, needs assessments and data collection, and more creative needs-based programmes for women. Read more<

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DRIVE Newsletter: Improving protection and assistance in mixed migration arrivals

The bimonthly DRIVE newsletter provides information on international and European policy developments in the area of maritime arrivals in the Mediterranean countries of focus in the DRIVE project (Greece, Italy, Malta, Spain), including especially issues related to the identification, referral and protection of asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants at arrival.Read more<

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