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  • 11 May 2010
    Climate change refugees: rights and responsibilities

    As the global climate changes, millions of people will be uprooted by sea-level rise, extreme weather events, droughts and water scarcity, says Annegret Kapp. It is vital to start talking about our moral, legal and practical obligations to them.

  • 29 Apr 2010
    Massive abuse of migrants is Mexican 'human rights crisis'

    The Mexican authorities must halt the continuing abuse of migrants as public officials collude in kidnappings, rapes and murders, says a news Amnesty International report.

  • 3 Feb 2010
    New Lutheran chief wants to make US welcoming to migrants

    The newly announced president of the US Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Linda Hartke, has said she will work to make the United States a more welcoming place for immigrants and refugees.

  • 11 Jan 2010
    Getting real on migration

    Lord Carey's comments about immigration show him to be living in an unreal world, says Vaughan Jones. For displaced people this is an issue of life and death. Migration is not a game with numbers. It is an issue which requires serious moves towards international justice - and a basic Christian issue of neighbourly love.

  • 4 Dec 2009
    European Churches campaign for resident permits for migrants

    The World Council of Churches' Global Ecumenical Network on Migration has welcomed a year-long campaign by European churches aimed at granting long-term resident permits to foreigners.

  • 29 Nov 2009
    Pope speaks out strongly for refugees and migrants

    Pope Benedict XVI has issued a strong message in advance of the ninety-sixth World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which is due to be celebrated on 17 January 2010 and which focuses on underage refugees and migrants.

  • 11 Nov 2009
    European governments asked to act on rights after Berlin Wall events

    Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, European governments must act urgently to tackle human rights abuses against migrants, asylum seekers, detainees and minorities, Amnesty International has declared.

  • 28 Aug 2009
    ONS population figures thwart anti-migrant propagandists

    Overall UK migration levels (the numbers of people arriving minus those leaving) have fallen by 44 per cent to 118,000, says to the latest report from the Office for National Statistics.

  • 21 Apr 2009
    Church services to celebrate the contribution of migrants to British life

    For the first time, services will take place at Westminster Abbey and the Methodist Central Hall (opposite the Houses of Parliament) at the same time, celebrating the place of migrants in modern British society.

  • 9 Apr 2009
    Listen to migrant workers' cries, says Japanese Christian leader

    A Japanese Christian leader is urging churches to "listen to the cries" of temporary migrant workers many of whom are now without jobs as the world's second-biggest economy's unemployment rate soars.