The event featured a keynote address by Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile, and speakers included Elizabeth Taylor Jay, vice minister of multilateral affairs of Colombia; Tomás Pascual, head of the human rights division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile; Garry Conille, UNICEF regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean; and Wendy Young, president of the Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) Foundation.
Ariel Fiszbein, director of the Inter-American Dialogue's education program, said that "the signing of the declaration is the first step. A substantive and symbolic step. Substantive because it orients us with respect to the things that should happen and symbolic because it gives us a manifesto around which we all, from wherever we are: government, civil society, cooperation organizations, have a starting point to continue building."
This post is also available in: SpanishCONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY AS SUBMITTED FOR RECORD AND DELIVERED BEFORE A FULL COMMITTEE HEARING OF THE US SENATE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS. Over the past five years, slightly over 100,000 unaccompanied migrant children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have been apprehended at the…
Migration from Latin America and the Caribbean to the United States has grown steadily over the past forty years. In addition to leaving their countries amidst political and economic hardship, the vast majority of these migrants face additional challenges to their legal status. One way to look for solutions is to consider a comprehensive approach to migration through recruitment, retention, return, relief and reform.
