MSF report: Dehumanizing migration policies in the Americas leave hundreds of thousands of people abandoned in danger
August 12, 2025MSF calls on governments in the region to shift away from harsh deterrence tactics and towards humane migration and protection policy. Mexico City, 12 August 2025—In its first six months in office, the current US Administration has implemented the most...
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What Comes After Failure? Dealing with Displaced Populations in Greece and Europe
August 11, 2025By Christina Psarra, MSF Executive Director in GreeceThe arrival in early July of more than 2,500 people seeking asylum on the island of Crete is a stark reminder that no policy of deterrence, nor threat of detention after reaching European...
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World Breastfeeding Week: Nurturing hope amid migration challenges in Latin America
August 4, 2025“I’ve breastfed him throughout the entire migration route,” says María*, a 34-year-old Venezuelan mother traveling with her two children. Their journey began in Peru, where her youngest son was born two years ago, and continued through Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa...
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Armed conflict and administrative barriers limit health access in Arauca: MSF responds with mobile clinics
August 4, 2025Arauca, Colombia- In Colombia’s northeastern department of Arauca, continuous migration from Venezuela, intensified armed conflict between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Central General State (EMC), and emergency response from floods, have overwhelmed the local capacity since...
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Mexico: Women surviving fear along the migration route
June 23, 2025These testimonies were collected in the field and later lightly edited for clarity and flow. All names have been changed to protect the individuals’ privacy.Yolanda, 25 years old – EcuadorReynosa, northern border of Mexico with the United StatesMy emotions were mostly...
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“Violence, desperation and abandonment on the migration route”: MSF presents its migration report in Mexico and Central America
May 27, 2024Migrants crossing through Mexico and Central America are in an unprecedented state of vulnerability. From the diverse areas of work from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) – medic, mental health, social work, and health promotion – we have been able to...
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41 people died in shipwreck off Lampedusa
August 10, 2023By Juan Matías Gil, MSF Search and Rescue Representative“These kinds of tragedies are happening daily in the Mediterranean and at the European borders, right in front of everyone’s eyes. More and more people have been taking the sea to find refuge over...
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Not another migration ‘crisis’: EU leaders continue to push through deadly policies
May 15, 2023More people than ever recorded are currently forcibly displaced from their homes by conflict, human rights violations, climate change, and the economic consequences resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Across Europe, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to witness people...
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“Title 42 ends, but migration crisis continues in Mexico and Central America,” says Doctors Without Borders
May 12, 2023On May 11, when the Biden administration ends the COVID-19 public health emergency nationally, Title 42, a public health order used to shut down asylum at the US southern border for more than three years, officially comes to an end.Invoked...
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“Returning to Haiti means death”
August 17, 2022Haitian migrants risking their lives to flee conflict face still more dangers on the journey through Latin America Haitians seeking asylum in the United States continue to be at risk of being expelled and sent back to a country in...
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MSF teams in Mexico’s northern border cities witness overwhelming needs of migrants
July 8, 2022As one of the few organizations providing care, MSF says assistance from local authorities and other organizations is urgently needed The situation for migrants in Mexico's northern border cities is sharply deteriorating as expulsions under Title 42 continue and hundreds...
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Emergency healthcare and protection needed as more people cross to Panama
May 20, 2022Conditions are deteriorating for migrants arriving at reception centres in the province of Darién, Panama. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides medical and mental healthcare at the San Vicente Migrant Reception Centre, where approximately 300 migrants arrive each day, and we have witnessed huge...
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