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Dear John, I hope this edition of the WOLA Weekly finds you well as we enter the New Year and celebrate 50 years since WOLA was founded in 1974. Discussions on migration are set to resume in Congress next week and the topic is likely to garner a lot of attention this year.
Our explainer on Cuba looks at how nearly half a million people have fled the island in the last two years to come to the U.S. The piece has done extremely well on Instagram and was featured in this week’s Economist.
In other migration related news, WOLA recently returned from a visit to Necoclí, Colombia, where we documented firsthand the challenges facing migrants from countries like Venezuela, Haiti or Ecuador as they embark on their perilous journey across the Darién Gap. We will be launching a report soon. In the meantime catch a glimpse of our 2 minute video.
Our team was also in Arizona late last year to assess how protection for migrants at ports of entry is being restricted and asylum seekers are being pushed towards remote desert areas.
We look forward to celebrating WOLA’s 50th anniversary with you. More details coming soon. Best, Warm Wishes, |
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| Mariakarla Nodarse Assistant Director for Cuba |
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♀️ In a recent report, WOLA Senior Fellow, Coletta Youngers, alongside the Working Group on Women, Drug Policies, and Incarceration, reflect on almost ten years of collective research and joint advocacy.
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🇬🇹 We are very pleased that Guatemalan Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Virginia Laparra, was released after being wrongfully detained for nearly two years. Learn more here.
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| 🎉 WOLA is officially on Threads!
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📽️ Check out this 2min video on the migrants that arrive to the seaside town of Necoclí, Colombia as they prepare for their treacherous trip through the Darien Gap in order to reach the U.S.-Mexico border. |
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In April 2022, WOLA launched its one-of-a-kind Border Oversight Database, which documents hundreds of reports of human rights violations and abuses against migrants and asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. |
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"So they’ll kidnap migrants either because those migrants were trying to travel with or pay a rival group, perhaps the migrants had not paid any group for passage or it’s simply an economic proposition so their family members can be extorted for profit [...] And that’s a model that’s been going on for many years."
Stephanie Brewer, Director for Mexico
– The New York Times, Gunmen Abduct 31 Migrants in Mexico as Border Crisis Simmers |
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📸 Check out this photo exhibition on migrants in Mexico City's Museo de la Cancillería by WOLA's Digital Content Creator, Sergio Ortiz now through February 17, 2024! |
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