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.
Statement on overcrowding in Polideportivo Xonaca, Puebla City.
During the visit of the Seminar’s coordinator to these facilities, she verified that within the migrant population there are pregnant women, as well as around 80 boys and girls, some of whom are complaining of dehydration and upper respiratory conditions caused by low temperatures, as well as the failure on the part of the state authorities to provide the minimum conditions that would guarantee the the protection of life, health, and integrity, mainly for the population of children, adolescents and pregnant women.
“Do justice to the orphan and the widow, and love the stranger by giving him bread and clothing.” Dt 10.18
On December 10th, 1948 the UN established the commemoration of Human Rights Day, motivated by the Declaration of Human Rights. Its context is the end of the Second World War, marking that humanity would “never again” violate the rights of each human who inhabits this common home.
“On the Way…” from the Franciscan Network on Migration, in Pocast format
We want to offer our listeners fresh and novel stories of this human problem that brings us all together as a society, inspired by reflections on fraternity and social friendship.
An inclusive approach to concretely transform situations of pain and anguish into hope
December 3rd, we celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly.
“Human Rights and Migration” training held in person in Honduras
The alliance between Franciscans International and the Franciscan Network for Migrants created this training which was offered in 2021. It was divided into two stages: 6 virtual modules and 4 face-to-face days.
Members of RFM-Honduras participate in a monitoring visit in El Triunfo- Choluteca
This monitoring visit was organized by Sr. Gelsomina Rodas, Daniel de Caritas and Olma professor, with the purpose of understanding the harsh reality experienced by people who are migrating. Sr. Marcela, Ana Victoria and Sr. Nyzelle visited the Nicaraguan border with Honduras with a team from Red Clamor Honduras
World Day of the Poor: Love the immigrant (stranger), because you were an immigrant in Egypt
In the practice of Jesus, we find the same Spirit that moved him to liberate and heal the excluded and most affected groups of Jewish society
Virtual Training “Migration and Human Rights 2021” has been completed
The Franciscan Network for Migrants (RFM) and Franciscans International, the NGO of the Franciscan Family before the United Nations, concluded on October 29, the first part of the Training: “Migration and Human Rights 2021”.
Migrants Speak, Migrants Act, Migrant Know: New Audiovisual Works for Informed Travel
The Franciscan Network on Migration, together with the University of California, Davis, and the Observatory of Migration Law and Policy, invite you to this live broadcast from Border Line Crisis Center in Tijuana, Mexico.
“Because I was hungry” … International Food Day
In this reality of the Central American peoples, there are specific faces, names, families and homes that, when they find themselves in a state of hunger must forcibly migrate. In the thousands who are forced to migrate from the countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua