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Caritas Jordan aiding Syrian refugees while Pope pledges Caritas Syria Easter donation

28/03/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Communications

Refugees continue to flee conflict in Syria to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Meanwhile, the Vatican has announced that Pope Benedict’s Holy Thursday Mass collection in St. John’s basilica will go to Caritas Syria for humanitarian assistance to Syrian’s forced from their homes because of the conflict. In the latest update from Caritas Jordan, staff say ...

Caritas in Lebanon and Jordan doing more to help Syrian refugees

23/03/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

By Patrick Nicholson Syrian refugees continue to flee into neighbouring Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. They’re trying to escape fighting between government and opposition forces that began last March. Caritas members in the region are looking to respond to the growing needs of the refugees. Living conditions are difficult. Hamid* brought his wife and children from ...

Alem’s life is over, but her story is not: ending domestic worker abuse in Lebanon

22/03/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration by Caritas Communications

Recently, a viral video showing the abuse of an Ethiopian migrant in Lebanon shocked those who saw it. The Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center (CLMC) has worked with abused housemaids for years and sends us this timeline in the life of Alem, who was known to CLMC staff. By Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center Staff Like over ...

Happy to be home in Nepal

22/03/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Blog, Female face of migration, Migration, Minor migrants, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen Thirty-year-old Madhu Tharu has been working for other people since she was a little girl. A bonded labourer in a village of bonded labourers, the Nepali woman basically belonged to her landlord. The system of serfdom that trapped her wasn’t abolished in Nepal until the early 2000s. So for years, she worked ...

Caritas in Mexico: Standing alongside migrants who are hostage to violence

16/03/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Latin America, Mexico, Migration by Caritas Communications

Criminal gangs are not the only danger that migrants must face. Private security forces responsible for the protection of trains and goods, and some representatives of the State (federal police, migration officers) also take part in exploiting the weakness of migrants.

On board trains to the United States, migrants are not alone

16/03/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, North America, Trafficking, United States by Caritas Communications

It is 7:30pm, in Amatlan, in the province of Cordoba Veracruz. The train whistle blows in the distance. In Norma Romero Vazquez’ kitchen, headquarters of the “Patronas “, women bustle about.. Carmen, 90, the oldest of the women in the family, takes a crate filled with bags of food. Along with her daughters and granddaughters, Carmen ...

Dangerous trains

16/03/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Latin America, Mexico, Migration, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

Trains are the main means of transport used by migrants from Central America to cross Mexico and reach the border with the United States. But climbing onto their roofs or perching between two rail cars is a dangerous undertaking.

Caritas aid reaches Syrian refugees in Lebanon

16/03/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

“The situation is bad,” said Fatima*. She had arrived from Syria into Lebanon that morning with five of her seven children. They’d fled from Kosayr, a suburb of Homs that’s currently undergoing heavy shelling as fighting continues between the government and opposition forces. Her husband stayed on while her teenage boys were stopped from leaving. ...

Home alone in Nepal

16/03/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Blog, Female face of migration, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen “Where’s your mother?” Usually when you ask small children this question, the answer is predictable: At home. At the market. At work, a few kilometres or a drive away. In villages of Nepal, a deeply impoverished country on India’s northeast border, children answer differently. “In Kuwait.” “In Saudi.” “She’s in a foreign ...

Bhutanese refugees in Nepal: A day in the life

13/03/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Blog, Female face of migration, Migration, Nepal, Refugees, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

In the early 1990s the country of Bhutan, in the Himalayas, forcibly drove out over 100,000 ethnic Nepalis they claimed were not true citizens. These Bhutanese refugees ended up in eastern Nepal as migrants in limbo. Required to stay in refugee camps, they’ve lived for 20 years without electricity or good health care. The camp ...