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OBMICA Bulletin December 2024

We are honored to present the latest edition of the OBMICA institutional bulletin, corresponding to December 2024. The publication is available for online reading and PDF download. The editorial highlights how human mobility in the region is becoming increasingly politically heated and physically dangerous.

Cover of OBMICA Bulletin December 2024

OBMICA Bulletin

We are honored to present the latest edition of the OBMICA institutional bulletin, corresponding to December 2024. The publication is available for online reading and PDF download here.

Editorial OBMICA Bulletin December 2024. At the close of 2024, human mobility in the region is becoming increasingly politically heated and physically dangerous. This was underscored when President Nicolas Maduro claimed reelection and tightened measures against his opponents. Read more...

OBMICA contributes to an expert consultation on addressing xenophobia and anti-migrant racism. Xenophobia has become increasingly visible in numerous societies, seriously affecting migrants, their families, and communities in the Caribbean and elsewhere. UN treaty bodies have stepped up recommendations to states to prevent and combat xenophobia, racism, and their effects. Read more...

Closing milestone in the 2024 Cartagena Process. Cartagena+40 concludes with cooperation and solidarity to protect refugees, displaced people, and stateless persons. Civil society and academic organizations in the region celebrated the recently adopted Chile Declaration and 2024-2034 Action Plan. Read more...

Socializing the new Civil Registry law (2023). The meeting on advances and challenges in the Dominican civil registry was held in Santo Domingo in late November. Read more...

Five things to retain from 2024. The so-called route through Mexico led nearly 50,000 Dominicans into the dangerous journey through the Darien to reach Mexico and try to continue north. Read more...

IACHR publishes resolution on human mobility and climate change. The new resolution seeks to guide states in the development of laws, programs, and public policies to protect people moving because of the adverse effects of climate change. Read more...

The Creative Caribbean Project supports OBMICA's cultural approach to addressing statelessness in the Caribbean. The project implemented by UNESCO, CARICOM, and UWI supports OBMICA's efforts to provide a platform for creative expression around identity, belonging, nationality, and statelessness in the Caribbean. Read more...

The Creative Caribbean Project Supports OBMICA's Cultural Approach to Addressing Statelessness in the Caribbean. Read more...