International Catholic Migration Commission
The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) is an international organization that serves and protects the needs of uprooted people, refugees, internally displaced persons and migrants, with operations in 30 countries of the world, including Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Turkey.
ICMC advocates for durable solutions and rights-based policies directly and through a worldwide network of 172 (as of 2006) member organizations.
ICMC's expertise and core programming consists of refugee resettlement, return and reintegration, local integration, work with extremely vulnerable individuals, counter-trafficking and rescue, NGO capacity-building, technical cooperation and government institution-building, emergency response and advocacy.
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