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U.S. and Mexican bishops call for better migration policies at border Apr 2, 2021 national correspondent Young migrants lie inside a pod March 30, 2021 at the holding facility in Donna, Texas, set up in February by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security. (Credit: CNS photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool via Reuters) As the number of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border continues to soar, more than a dozen Catholic bishops from both countries issued a reminder yesterday that “there is a shared responsibility of all nations to preserve human life and p...

Ecuador received with satisfaction the invitation of the Council of Europe to adhere to the Convention on counterfeiting of medical products and similar crimes (Medicrime). Ecuador, the first country in America that together with Europe will fight against the counterfeiting of medical products The decision to invite the country, adopted on February 11 by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, was transmitted by the Office of International Treaties of the Council of Europe, through the Embassy of Ecuador in France. After a process of inter-institutional consultations, started in ...

IOM – New data published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) this week confirms a nearly three-fourths decline in migration from the East and Horn of Africa regions towards Gulf Council Countries during 2020. At the Second Scientific Conference on Migration and Displacement conference IOM organized herewith the eight-nation Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), a new study noted that COVID-19 led to a 73 per cent drop in migrants from the Horn of Africa travelling to the Gulf countries through Yeme...

IOM: COVID-19 Leads to 73% Drop in Migration from Horn of Africa to Gulf Countries Format Despite security risks, the number of migrants travelling from the Horn of Africa to Saudi Arabia through Yemen had been on the increase over the past four years. © IOM Addis Ababa– New data published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) this week confirms a nearly three-fourths decline in migration from the East and Horn of Africa regions towards Gulf Council Countries during 2020. At the Second Scientific Conference on Migration and Displacement conference IOM organized herewith the...

The Other Americans: Biden Ends Controversial Asylum Agreements The new administration has vowed to ‘address root causes that compel individuals to migrate.’ The Biden Administration has suspended the controversial Asylum Cooperation Agreements signed between the Trump Administration and the governments of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. The move is part of the administration’s rejection of Trump’s hardline anti-immigration policies. By the time that the agreement was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump Administration had deported 939 Hond...