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A future for Congo’s women

27/02/2012 Advocacy, Africa, Agriculture, Conflicts and Disasters, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Emergencies, Female face of migration, Food, Migration by Caritas Communications

“Karibu, welcome,” said Adèle. She and a dozen other women are hard at work in a field beside the Goma to Rutshuru Road in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Adèle is an agronomist and also heads three associations supported by a Caritas project to rehabilitate women war victims. “We’ve planted peanut seeds and ...

Conflict in Mali adds to West Africa’s woes

23/02/2012 Advocacy, Africa, Burkina, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Mali, Mauritania, Migration, Niger, Peacebuilding, Refugees by Caritas Communications

“The sound of gunfire woke us up,” said Mr Mahmouda, who fled his village in Mali after it came under attack from rebels. “Although we were not directly threatened, we were scared. We took all we could carry and fled in the direction of Niger,” he told Caritas Niger. Some 120,000 people have been forced ...

As the crisis in Greece worsens, Caritas helps Athens’ immigrants

17/02/2012 Europe, Greece, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Communications

Caritas Greece is working hard to help people who are suffering from the country’s financial difficulties. At a refugee centre for immigrants living in and near Athens, Caritas serves 300 meals a day, offers Greek and English lessons, provides vaccinations for children, and gives out relief kits with clothes, blankets and baby milk.

Tackling human trafficking

13/02/2012 Advocacy, Africa, Asia, Czech Republic, Europe, Female face of migration, Ghana, Migration, Sri Lanka, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

Throughout the world, criminals exploit poor or desperate people. Traffickers offer them jobs that don’t exist and take them from their homes before selling them into unpaid prostitution, beggary, or forced labour.

How human traffickers recruit

13/02/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Female face of migration, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen This is Part 1 of a two-part article on human trafficking. To find out more about how COATNET helps former victims, see Part 2. “When we started in the early 2000s, a common way for traffickers to lure people was through ads in the newspapers,” says Gabriela Chiroiu of Caritas Bucharest. “They’d offer attractive ...

Safe haven for migrants on Mexico border

16/01/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Français, Latin America, Mexico, Migration by Caritas Communications

Read in French or Spanish By Ryan Worms The journey escaping from poverty in Central America in search of prosperity in the United States and Canada is a dangerous one for the migrants who try their luck. More than 20,000 migrants are held by criminal gangs each year on the route. Theft, violence and sexual ...

Concerns mount over conflict in South Sudan

6/01/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Migration, Refugees, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

Catholic Relief Services (CRS is a Caritas member based in the US) is poised to respond to the declared emergency in Jonglei State in South Sudan, where an estimated 50,000 people have been displaced since late December due to ethnic conflict between the Lou Nuer and Murle tribes that has claimed an estimated 1,000 lives ...

In southern Haiti mothers are at the heart of development strategy

23/12/2011 Agriculture, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Female face of migration, Food, Haiti, Latin America, Migration by Caritas Communications

Food security, especially that of children, is a major problem in Haiti. Caritas has put in place various initiatives in the province of Les Cayes in southern Haiti to deal with this issue. With the help of CRS, the local Caritas has set up more than 200 mothers groups. What’s a mothers group? “As the ...

The Future of Migrants

9/12/2011 Advocacy, Migration by Caritas Communications

By Martina Liebsch For people in poor nations, migrating to another country to find work should be an option and not a necessity. That’s a nice thing to say, but how do we get to a point where it’s true? At a Global Forum on Migration held in Geneva in late November, the focus was ...

One in ten Colombians forced from their homes by conflict

15/10/2011 Advocacy, Colombia, Conflicts and Disasters, Latin America, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees by Caritas Communications

By Adriana Arrieta Peace remains elusive in Colombia. Over 45 years of civil war has forced one in ten people from their homes today. Every day a Colombian is stripped of his belongings, his home or his life. His dreams, desires, and hopes are stolen. Many are forced to migrate to another city in which ...