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Migrant and refugee crisis

Una joven madre de Sierra Leona y su bebé llegan al refugio para migrantes.
Programme
15 February 2022
Migration and Gender
In Latin America and the Caribbean, girls and adolescent girls on the move are exposed to risks and violations of their human rights.
Statement
11 May 2023
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the lifting of Title 42
A migrant family arrive to Lajas Blancas Migrant Reception Station, Darien, Panama.
Press release
30 March 2023
Seven-fold increase in the number of children walking through the Panamanian jungle towards North America this year
Carmen, Gabriel and their daughters Ángela (center) and Carla (left), continue their migratory route towards the United States after spending a few hours at the Assistance Center for Migrants and Refugees on the Guatemalan border, where they recovered a bit and received health and psychosocial care from UNICEF Guatemala and its partners.
Photo essay
05 December 2022
Families and childhood on the move, Guatemala-Honduras
The long road of migrant families fleeing violence and natural disasters in the hope of obtaining better livelihoods for a better future
Joselin Troya (4 years old) from Venezuela poses for the camera at the UNICEF-supported reception center for migrant families located in Iquique, Chile on April 25, 2022. Pablo Vera-Lisperguer/UNICEF
Page
22 November 2022
Migrant and Refugee Children and Adolescents
Learn why education is important and what we do to ensure everybody can learn.
October 2021. MRS Lajas Blancas, Darién, Panamá. Woman and two children walking in the main street of MRS Lajas Blancas.
Press release
18 November 2022
Record number of children crossing the Darien Gap towards the US this year
About 32,500 children have walked through Panama’s jungle in the past ten months. Half of them under 5 years old.
Delrin Chavarria
Article
09 December 2021
Delrin, the migrant who supplies water to the Darien.
Delrin Chavarría is a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Specialist at UNICEF Panama.
Statement
30 September 2021
UN agencies call for protection measures and a comprehensive regional approach for Haitians on the move
Joint statement by UNHCR, IOM, UNICEF, OHCHR
A boy makes a heart with his hands in the shelter for migrant families of Roca de Salvación, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on April 14, 2021.
News note
26 May 2021
The United States contributes US$17.64 million to scale-up UNICEF’s humanitarian response for children on the move in Mexico and Central America
Father and child arrive exhausted after crossing the Darien Gap to Bajo Chiquito, Province of Darien, Panama, on 25 March 2020.
News note
29 March 2021
Fifteen times more children crossing the Panama jungle towards the USA in the last four years