International Migrants Day: Mexico Government Must Address the Crisis Amnesty International
go to original December 18, 2015

"Let your light shine" - International Migrants Day's message from IOM Director General (International Organization for Migration)

Governments must act to protect migrants fleeing through the same routes and exposed to the same abuses as refugees, said Amnesty International on International Migrants Day.

Amnesty International is calling on the Mexican government to protect migrants from across Central America en route to the USA - one of the most dangerous routes in the world.

The majority of migrants, many of whom are unaccompanied children, are trying to reach the USA from Central America, fleeing extreme levels of violence and poverty. Migrants are forced to undertake harrowing journeys where they are exposed to a range of abuses including abductions, disappearances, sexual violence and murder.

The creation of the Forensic Commission by the Mexican government in 2013 is a step towards the right direction, but it is not enough. Investigations by the state into the migrant massacres that occurred between 2010 and 2012 in the states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo León in north-eastern Mexico are still woefully slow and those responsible for ongoing abductions, killings and disappearances are rarely prosecuted.

Read the whole story at Amnesty International

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