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.
Migrants in Panama and National Unemployment
As members of the RFM-Panama Team, once again we want to share the current situation of migrants who are in transit through these lands
Panama: Confrontation between protesters and migrants
The People’s Alliance for Life has denounced that the Panamanian government has used migrants as a method of provocation to create false positives, generate chaos, and distort the struggle they are leading in the streets. The organization denounces that they are replicated in social networks both by civil and political groups, as well as by natural persons.
The visit of the animators of the JPIC Office in Rome, good news
During their time in Panama, several meetings were held between June 6 and 10, 2022
The Franciscan Network for Migrants Launches the “Virtual Migrant House”
The objective is to provide immediate virtual accompaniment to people who contact us through the chat, both in emergency situations, such as immediate departure from the country of origin, as well as information on organizations that contribute to the migratory issue, location and contact of houses or hostels in the American continent, etc.
Migration: A dream of life, not death
To the Governments of the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
To all people of good faith.
Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
Human rights defenders and shelters have experienced an increase in acts of harassment, surveillance, defamation, and attacks by state and non-state actors for their work with the migrant population
Fr. John: My Volunteer Experience at La 72
I have been a Franciscan friar. I have been a dentist. Learning from the example of several dental colleagues, I went to the jungles of Peru from 2006 to 2008 to provide dental care to communities in remote locations
Migration is a right; refuge is the right that humanizes migration
World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honor refugees and displaced people around the world. It is commemorated on June 20th of each year.
Observation visits: Casa Betania Santa Martha
The area they are in is difficult, as it is a route where crime is the order of the day: insecurity, human trafficking, flora and fauna trafficking, drug trafficking, etc. Casa Betania is a transit house, and people can only stay for three days and must continue on their way so that new arrivals can also have a space to rest.
Observation visits: Casa Palenque
We talked about the risks they face every day: violence, insecurity and discrimination, and the support they have from COMAR to find work for migrants.