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Father and child arrive exhausted after crossing the Darien Gap to Bajo Chiquito, Province of Darien, Panama, on 25 March 2020.

Fifteen times more children crossing the Panama jungle towards the USA in the last four years

A family crosses the Suchiate River at the Mexico-Guatemala border in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on January 31, 2019.

Death threats and gang violence forcing more families to flee northern Central America – UNHCR and UNICEF survey

Madre e hijas en la ruta migratoria desde Venezuela

Migratory regularization as an essential condition

for the comprehensive protection of the rights of children in the context of human mobility - Technical note

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On 24 April 2019 in Cucuta, Colombia, at Francisco de Paula Santander bridge, where each morning, around 5 am, hundreds of boys and girls (many in school uniforms) cross the border from Venezuela to head to the buses that will take them to school elsewhere in Cucuta.

EU humanitarian aid contributes €3.2 million to support UNICEF’s humanitarian response for children affected by the Venezuelan migration crisis

Janete

The girl who dreamed of pizza in the middle of the jungle

Janete, a 13-year-old Congolese girl, recounts her journey through the Darien Gap.

"The coronavirus hit us hard"

“The coronavirus has hit us very hard”

Sara and Daniel, a couple of migrant adolescents from Venezuela in Ecuador

© UNICEF Ecuador/2019/Arcos

Protecting lives of children on the move

Nearly 34,000 children have been receiving psychosocial support, including access to Child Friendly Spaces, in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago

© UNICEF Ecuador/2019/Arcos

Nutrition, a priority at the border

Boys and girls under 5 years old on the move are receiving nutrition supplementation to prevent undernutrition in countries such as Ecuador, Peru and Brazil