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Central American migration

Mexico’s President Says the UN Should ‘Wake Up From Its Slumber’ to End Global Poverty

Maurizio Guerrero
• November 9, 2021

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as Amlo for his initials, called on the United Nations to “wake up from its slumber” and support the creation of a mechanism to end poverty for 750 million people worldwide. In his …

Categories: General Assembly, Latin America, Poverty, Secretary-General, Security Council

OPINIONS

America’s Forbidding Legacy on the Southern Border

Opinion by Stephen Schlesinger
• April 11, 2021

While the United Nations focuses fitfully on its own long string of refugee problems, President Joe Biden has tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to resolve the problems of migration at the United States-Mexico border. There are legitimate reasons for Americans …

Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations

UN Agencies Back Asylum Rights of Central American Migrants in Exodus to US

Barbara Crossette
• November 6, 2018

Working closely with Mexico, United Nations agencies are providing food and other necessities to thousands of migrants from Central America who are walking or riding in any vehicle they can find toward the United States. There, they are seeking asylum …