Refugees Archives - Page 23 of 27

Better protection for women refugees

18/06/2012 Advocacy, Africa, Female face of migration, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Internationalis

On World Refugee Day (20 June), Caritas says there needs to be better protection of the human rights of refugee women, especially in relief camps and in border areas. In Africa, women refugees live for extended periods in overcrowded sites where life is harsh. They lack access to basic items such as food, shelter, clothing ...

Q&A with Sister Laurence Huard of Caritas Algeria

18/06/2012 Advocacy, Algeria, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Internationalis

We've opted for indirect assistance aimed at promoting advocacy regarding free movement and respect of human rights along the migration routes.

Migrants brave deserts and shipwrecks to reach safety in Italy

18/06/2012 Advocacy, Africa, Europe, Italy, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Minor migrants, Refugees, Trafficking by Caritas Internationalis

At a migrant centre near the banks of the Tiber River, a Caritas case worker talks about an African woman targeted in her home country for political reasons: Caritas helped her pay her rent in Rome while she got on her feet.

Caritas Syria President urges dialogue to end crisis

15/06/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Internationalis

Chaldean Catholic Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo in Syria and head of Caritas Syria has been in France for meetings with Secours Catholique (Caritas France). He spoke to François Tcherkessoff. Here is an edited version of the interview (translated by Caritas Internationalis). What does the Church leadership say about the recent events? The three patriarchs ...

Plight of immigrants the focus of “Migramed” conference

18/05/2012 Advocacy, Europe, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Internationalis

Every year, thousands of desperate migrants from Africa cross the Mediterranean, hoping to reach southern Europe. Caritas is focusing on their needs at the Migramed conference, held this week in Cagliari, Italy. Before trying to cross the Mediterranean, many of these migrants have already spent months travelling through Africa, often fleeing violence, poverty or hunger. They ...

Caritas helping stranded South Sudanese return home

17/05/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Internationalis

Caritas staff and volunteers have been working flat out all over South Sudan to prepare for the return of refugees from north Sudan. In Juba, between 12-15,0000 returnees stranded in Kosti in the White Nile State in north Sudan are expected to arrive over the next few weeks by plane. The governor of White Nile ...

Caritas aids Somali refugee women in Kenya

16/05/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Female face of migration, Kenya, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Refugees, Somalia by Caritas Internationalis

In summer 2011, when famine and violence were engulfing her country, Fadumo “Mama” Sharif Mohamed left Somalia with her husband and ten children. On their eight-day trek to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, militia attacked them and they lost the family’s food. Her children, like thousands of others, suffered from malnutrition. But she and ...

Delivering aid inside Syria

9/05/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Internationalis

Selim* has been working for Caritas Syria in Aleppo for three months helping people with food and other aid. He says Aleppo has been hit hard by the economic crisis in Syria. The conflict and international sanctions have led to high levels of inflation and unemployment across the country. Caritas helps poor families and especially ...

Syrian church calls for an end to cycle of violence

4/05/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Internationalis

By Patrick Nicholson The Catholic Church in Syria has made this powerful statement on the crisis there, where daily violence continues to have a deadly toll and more people are crossing the borders to neighbouring countries. The statement is in French. It’s calling for an end to the violence and especially all forms of intimidation ...

Mali gets worse says Church

20/04/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Mali, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Internationalis

Fears are growing over the humanitarian situation in northern Mali. Some 268,000 people have now fled northern areas seized last month by Tuareg rebels and Islamists.