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Refugee women face gender-specific challenges in navigating daily life at every stage of their migration experience. [21] Common challenges for all refugee women, regardless of other demographic data, are access to healthcare and physical abuse and instances of discrimination , sexual violence , and human trafficking are the most common ones ...
The IOM does conduct surveys that ask about issues of sexual identity or gender identification to understand what challenges such migrants face. Noticias Telemundo contacted Mexico's National ...
Mexico has had very few female cabinet members throughout its history, and has never had a female head of state. [14] According to a 1998 study, women held only 14.2 percent of parliamentary seats in Mexico, putting it behind most developed countries (with the exception of the United States) in female representation. [42]
Although women in Mexico are making great advances, they are faced with the traditional expectation of being the head of the household. Researcher Margarita Valdés noted that while there are few inequities imposed by law or policy in Mexico, gender inequalities perpetuated by social structures and Mexican cultural expectations limit the ...
The 52-year-old Venezuelan migrant in Mexico says she fears her appointment will not come before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, when he has vowed to scrap a slew of programs ...
Meanwhile, the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stated last Thursday that migrant arrests at the U.S.-México border have dropped by more than 72%, from 12,498 on Dec. 18, the ...
The 2014 American immigration crisis was a surge in unaccompanied children and women from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) seeking entrance to the United States in 2014. According to U.S. law, an unaccompanied alien child refers to a person under 18 years of age, who has no lawful immigration status in the U.S., and who does not ...
Jessica Leon, an asylum-seeker from Ecuador, scaled a border wall on Tuesday with her 3-year-old daughter, setting foot on U.S. soil in San Diego, California, just hours before a new asylum ban ...