El Cuarto Claustro de Comités, llevado a cabo los días 21 y 22 de marzo, tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Aguascalientes, con la participación de 11 representantes de los Comités Estudiantiles de siete universidades aliadas. El principal objetivo del Claustro fue crear espacios de capacitación y vinculación entre los asistentes, todo esto con la […]
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Campaña de donación del Comité UDEM en el albergue Casanicolás
Este mes, estudiantes del Comité RECIBE de USCRI en la Universidad de Monterrey realizaron una nueva entrega de donativos como parte de su campaña permanente de apoyo a personas en situación de movilidad. En esta ocasión, lograron reunir y entregar 100 prendas de ropa, un par de tenis y cinco paquetes de toallas femeninas, gracias […]
What is Climate Migration?
In 2024, extreme weather events forced more than 800,000 people from their homes—the highest year on record. Climate-related environmental disasters are becoming only more common. Despite this mounting crisis, there remains no reliable humanitarian immigration pathway for people seeking safety from environmental disaster. People forced to move because of climate-related environmental disasters lack legal […]
Refugee Litigation – Where Things Stand
Litigation is ongoing, and this brief will not be updated to reflect future events and updates. The facts and events of this brief are current, as of 8:50 AM EDT on April 2, 2025. On January 20, 2025, the Administration put an indefinite pause on refugee admissions and processing through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program […]
When Accounting for War Crimes, Include Refugee Voices
Lessons from Colombia to Reckon with the Syrian Civil War What Came Before In March of 2011, the Syrian Civil War began. Bashar al-Assad’s government responded to anti-regime protests with a campaign of cruelty, razing the city of Deraa and torturing dissidents. Defectors from Assad’s forces mounted the Free Syrian Army (FSA) while jihadist […]
Timeline: Cameroon & the “Anglophone Crisis”
Cameroon is an independent country of approximately 28.3 million people located on the west coast of Africa. Cameroon borders the Gulf of Guinea, Nigeria, Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea. Since 2016, people in Cameroon have suffered through violent clashes between governmental security forces and separatist armed […]
Over 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans are Stripped of Protection
On March 25, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) categorically revoked humanitarian parole protections for individuals covered under the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan parole program (CHNV parole). This announcement leaves over 530,000 CHNV humanitarian parolees without status in the United States and at risk of deportation, starting April 24. “Humanitarian parole” allows individuals outside […]
Shifts in Gender-Related Refugee Protection Eligibility Guidelines
Refugee and asylum eligibility is largely determined using the “refugee” definition from the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol (“Refugee Convention”), which defines a refugee as a person who, “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country […]
A Haunting Reality: My Visit to Kakuma Refugee Camp
I once believed that my work in Osire refugee camp in Namibia had prepared me for anything. But nothing could have readied me for the dark reality I encountered during my visit to Kakuma earlier this year. What I witnessed was not just hardship; it was a haunting reminder of the world’s failure to protect […]
Children in Migration Need Protection, Not Barriers
The international community once held a strong consensus that children are inherently entitled to protection, with the belief that their needs and rights should be prioritized above all else. No matter their country of origin, their religion, their identity, their legal or migratory status—they are children, first and foremost. This principle was enshrined in various […]
