A new report has called on the U.S., Mexico and Canada to increase their formal resettlement and family reunification quotas for refugees fleeing “extreme violence” in Central America.
As President Donald Trump ramps up policies to deter Central American migrants from entering the U.S., aid experts are more urgently calling for increased foreign aid to the countries migrants are fleeing from.
As an increasing number of migrant women from Central America’s ‘Northern Triangle’ – Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador – are deported from the U.S. and Mexico, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) recommends that governments make a better effort to consider gender in their repatriation processes.
Nicaragua has re-elected President Daniel Ortega, whose government has been praised for continued improvements in poverty and violence rates but criticized for manipulating the political system to stay in power.
Two weeks after the U.S. State Department announced its approval of a $55 million aid package for Honduras, the Central American country continues to display signs of unbridled impunity and a failing justice system.
Two consecutive years of drought have led to some 3.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in El Salvador,…
Authorities detained 29 people across Central America last week for their involvement in a human smuggling network. These days, the…
Panama opened the $5.4 billion expansion of its shipping canal Sunday, as thousands of onlookers celebrated the completion of the…
Child migrants fleeing violence in Central America are surging across the U.S.-Mexico border in numbers that will soon rival that…
The areas occupied by hundreds of thousands of indigenous peoples have been plotted on a groundbreaking new map of Central…