Enforcement of Title 42 deportations leads to dire humanitarian consequences on Mexico’s northern border

Hundreds of people deported by the United States to Mexico under the Title 42 policy – most of them women and children – are stranded in a public square in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, vulnerable to kidnapping and violence and going without basic necessities.

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Mexico: Militarization of borders and mass expulsions increase dangers for asylum seekers and migrants

The commitments announced last week between the United States, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to reinforce the militarization of borders will further criminalize people on the move, says the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), leaving migrants more exposed to organized crime and COVID-19. MSF has witnessed both repeated raids and arbitrary detentions […]

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Niger: Deportations put migrants’ lives at risk

Safi Keita, from Mali, made her living in Algeria by selling spices. Her two children had stayed in Mali with her mother, and she was four months pregnant with her third child on the day that police arrived at her home. “The gendarmes broke down the door,” she says. “They took everything: money and phones. […]

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Opening remarks – Dr. Jason Nickerson, Humanitarian Affairs Advisor

Standing Committee on Health February 26, 2021   Good afternoon and thank you to the Committee for having me back today.   It has been said many times that this is a global pandemic that requires global solidarity and global actions. In addition to protecting Canadians, it is essential that our government unite behind a […]

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Refugees, IDPs and People on the Move

Latest facts (Updated June 19, 2023) •  Out of the 108 million displaced people estimated by UNHCR, over 62.5 million are IDPs. • There are over 35.3 million refugees around the world. • There are approximately 5.4 million asylum seekers, people whose claim for refugee status has not yet been determined. • Lower-income nations host 76 per cent of the […]

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MSF calls on WHO to prioritize supply of more quality-assured sources of insulin

The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomed the launch of the ‘Global Diabetes Compact’ by the World Health Organization (WHO) today and stressed the need to speed up the availability of more quality-assured sources of human insulin so that everyone in need can access this lifesaving medicine, especially people in […]

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