The Civil Society Action Committee condemns the violent, racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic riots and attacks that have endangered minority and marginalised communities across the United Kingdom over the past weeks. Join us in denouncing the continued legitimisation of xenophobic narratives by the media and government, including pandering to and platforming Read more…
On the 21 – 22 May 2024, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) held its first 2024 session of the International Dialogue on Migration (IDM), centred this year on ‘Facilitating Regular Pathways to a better future: Harnessing the power of migration’. Attempting to bring together a wide range of stakeholders, Read more…
The second Regional Migration Review Forum (RMRF) for the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (GCM), within the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) region, took place on 11 March 2024 in Geneva.
25 June 1958 – 26 July 2022
John K. Bingham, lawyer and migrant, served as Head of Policy of ICMC in Geneva from 2005 to 2018. Before joining ICMC in 2005, John worked for eight years for Catholic Charities in New York, where he was director of the departments of Immigrant and Refugee Services and later Capital Projects and Law. He served as Chair of the Board of the New York Immigration Coalition, and on the migration advisory group of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Prior to that, he spent eight years teaching human rights and criminal justice in a refugee camp of 240,000 Cambodians in Thailand, and later business law at the university in Phnom Penh, where he co-authored two books.