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Migration Management in Mexico and Central America: New MPI Report Examines Policy and Trends

Date: 23/10/2012 - 10:35

In New Approaches to Migration Management in Mexico and Central America, senior researchers Francisco Alba and Manuel Ángel Castillo of El Colegio de México trace the history of migration trends and policy in Mexico and Central America, and examine Mexico’s new immigration law and implementation challenges.

ODYSSEIA: New audio magazine launched by the Radio 1812 team!

Date: 14/11/2012 - 16:05

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This pilot edition focuses on the routes migrants take and the difficulties and challenges they face when moving from one country to another. With reports on Mexico and Morocco and a feature interview with Ska Keller, member of the European Parliament for the Greens, our reporters Nina Haase, Jenni Roth and Ruth Reichstein worked hard to make this first edition worth listening to.

The script for this edition is attached.

Morocco, Honduras, Mexico

Beyond the Border Buildup: Security and Migrants Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Date: 04/05/2012 - 08:21

This report is the product of a year-long study by WOLA and Mexico's College of the Northern Border (COLEF) on the impact of the U.S. and Mexico's security policies along the border.

In Hostile Terrain: Human rights violations in immigration enforcement in the US Southwest

Date: 29/03/2012 - 10:25

Amnesty International’s report, In Hostile Terrain: Human rights violations in immigration enforcement in the US Southwest, examines the human rights violations associated with immigration enforcement at the border and in the interior of the United States. While the development and implementation of immigration policies are a matter for individual governments, such policies must be compatible with international human rights law and standards. All immigrants, irrespective of their legal status, have human rights.

Will migrants matter in then Mexican vote?

Date: 05/01/2012 - 08:58

The clock is ticking as the registration deadline fast approaches for Mexican expatriates to vote in their country of origin’s presidential election this year. Although Mexican election officials are confident a late rush of applications will mean greater absentee participation than in the 2006 election, preliminary reports of the number of applications received indicate few expatriates will vote in the 2012 race.

DÍA INTERNACIONAL DEL MIGRANTE: MÉXICO SIGUE SIN PROTEGER A LAS PERSONAS MIGRANTES

Date: 17/12/2011 - 09:35

El gobierno mexicano ha incumplido su promesa de proteger a las personas migrantes frente a los abusos generalizados contra sus derechos humanos. Así lo ha manifestado Amnistía Internacional, con motivo del Día Internacional del Migrante. 

JOURNÉE INTERNATIONALE DES MIGRANTS. LE MEXIQUE CONTINUE À MANQUER À L'OBLIGATION QUI LUI EST FAITE DE PROTÉGER LES MIGRANTS

Date: 17/12/2011 - 09:34

Le gouvernement mexicain n'a pas honoré sa promesse de protéger les migrants contre les violations généralisées de leurs droits fondamentaux, a déclaré Amnesty International dimanche 18 décembre à l'occasion de la Journée internationale des migrants.

International Migrants Day: Mexico still failing to protect migrants

Date: 17/12/2011 - 09:28

The Mexican government has failed to live up to its promise to protect migrants from widespread human rights abuses, Amnesty International said today, ahead of International Migrants Day on 18 December. 

In the past year alone, the organization has documented numerous cases where Central American migrants travelling through Mexico have been kidnapped, tortured, raped, killed and disappeared by criminal gangs, often with the complicity of public officials. Migrants’ rights defenders have also come under unprecedented attack.

El secuestro de migrantes

Date: 17/12/2011 - 08:45

La CNDH publicó recientemente el Informe especial sobre secuestro de migrantes en México. Se trata de un documento detallado y sustentado en un amplio trabajo de investigación en diferentes estaciones migratorias, dependencias oficiales, casas de migrantes y lugares de tránsito. En más de 2 mil visitas de trabajo de campo se pudo constatar 214 eventos de secuestro de indocumentados y dado que se trata de plagios masivos son varios miles de personas involucradas en estas acciones.

Pain Song Along the US - Mexico Border: the forced “yes” of Migration

Date: 17/09/2011 - 17:59

Sergio and I were sitting in torn-out bus seats under a hot January sky in Nogales, Sonora, talking about crawling through thorn bushes. We were in an outdoor bus station with a shade-screen ceiling. About thirty other recently deported men and women were sprawled on the concrete, hunched in the gravel, or slouching in other deconstructed pairs of faded but once colorfully-patterned bus seats. Most of them were carrying heavy duty plastic Homeland Security bags.

Décembre 18: Centre international de plaidoyer et de ressources sur les droits humains des travailleurs migrants.

Décembre 18 est une ONG dotée du statut consultatif spécial auprès du Conseil économique et social des Nations Unies

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