Internationaal Comité

Our mission:

The International Committee (IC) is a not-for-profit-association; a democratic, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural nationwide federation of immigrants' organisations. By uniting immigrants' organisations the IC aims at enhancing the social participation, the emancipation, the social fabric and the independence of immigrants and groups of immigrants. The workings of the IC are based on the European Declaration of Human Rights and on the fundamental objectives of the ACW. Our methods are socio-cultural.

Being an immigrants association, and in view of our mission, we strive to bring together immigrants in all their diversity, because we want to realise mutual solidarity between ethnically diverse groups.

We want to bring about the emancipation of entire groups by helping their own, independent organisations.

It is our conviction that participation and emancipation can only be rooted in the specific identity of every ethnicity and culure.

We want to defend the interests of immigrants and their organisations because in our society they often are a feeble and vulnerable group.

We pay specific attention to this vulnerable group, because it has less opportunities and is more frequently limited by factors leading to social exclusion.

 

We aim at organising dialogue and co-operation at three levels:

Being a federation, the IC has four socio-cultural functions: meeting (coming together), dispersing culture, education and community building.  We want to realise these fuctions in time with our participating organisations.

 

An important part of our mission is looking after the interests of our target groups.

Because of the specific situation of discrimination and iniquity of immigrants and their organisations, the IC looks after the interests of it's associated groups and their members.

 

In the process of realising our mission, particular attention goes to:

What do we offer?