News and Press Releases
US Migration Policy Under Biden: Signs of Hope and Cause for Concern
As a candidate Biden promised, and seemed poised early on, to chart a new path toward a more people-centered reform agenda. As president he has taken many hopeful steps, but still leans on deterrence and criminalization to a degree that is concerning.
RFM participates in interactive dialogue with The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
This June 24, the Franciscan Network for Migrants, through its Advocacy Committee has collaborated...
International Justice and Protection of The Rights of Migrants
With all of this and the fear that seized them, we traveled to Palenque where they had been captured by actors in organized crime, to file the complaint.
Honduras: Psychosocial Intervention in Post-Eta and Iota Shelters
The project is coordinated by RFM-Honduras team, supported and managed by the Coordination Committee of the Franciscan Network on Migration in coordination with the Faculty of Sciences Psychological the National Autonomous University of Honduras…
World Environment Day: The permanent challenge of caring for and defending our Common Home
Caring for and protecting our Common Home is an unavoidable responsibility. Pope Francis calls us to assume reciprocally and unequivocally this ecological commitment to be able to give a new meaning to our existence…
Mexico fails to comply with the recommendations of the Committee on the elimination of Racial Discrimination
We call on Mexico to implement the recommendations that various human rights mechanisms have made in the context of the protection of human rights of migrants, asylum seekers and human right defenders that work with them.
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Program Focus
Capacity-Building
Members of the Network are already providing a myriad of resources to migrants. Network members will be able to enhance each other’s work by sharing information and resources via different media (bulletins, meetings and gatherings, capacity-building seminars, resource and route maps, threat advisories, etc.) that they can then pass on to migrants in their care along the route.s.
Support and Protection
Members of the Network will foster the establishment of migrant centers, shelters and houses of refuge in areas where there is a lack of resources by connecting donors to new and ongoing programs.
Advocacy and Collaboration.
Fidelity to the Gospel message compels us to not only to recognize the face of Christ in the poor and the excluded, but also to engage in a social analysis to identify the processes of impoverishment and exclusion e.g. root causes, agents, victims, mechanisms and consequences.
