Newsletter, June 2017
We traveled to Havana to take part in the panel Memory and Border Conflicts; represented the Dominican chapter of ObservaLAtrata at a congress in Peru; advocated for the rights of migrant children in Mexico; Roberto Alvarez speaks about challenges in the Trump era; we keep moving toward civil registration for children of mixed couples; and meet associate researcher Amin Perez. This newsletter covers April, May, and June and reports on second-quarter 2017 developments in OBMICA's work and in the migration context in which we operate.
We traveled to Havana to take part in the panel "Memory and Border Conflicts"; represented the Dominican chapter of ObservaLAtrata at a congress in Peru; advocated for the rights of migrant children in Mexico; Roberto Alvarez speaks about challenges in the Trump era; we keep moving toward civil registration for children of mixed couples; and meet associate researcher Amin Perez.
This newsletter covers April, May, and June and reports on second-quarter 2017 developments in OBMICA's work and in the migration context in which we operate.
- OBMICA's new home
- Our advocacy processes in ObservaLAtrata and in regional expert consultations on violence and the human rights of children in the context of migration.
- We took part in a workshop in Havana that revisited the events of 1937.
- Interview with Roberto Alvarez on the Donald Trump administration and deportation-related challenges.
- Moving toward civil registration in the Mixed Couples Project.
- Meet Amin Perez.
- New resources from AJWS, CEDESO, and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation.