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Request for thematic hearing on human mobility and structural racism in the region and the need for an anti-racist approach

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The Promise Institute for Human Rights at the University of California, Los Angeles, RacismoMX, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), the Observatorio de Racismo en México y Centroamérica, composed of Asociación Enlaces Nicaragüenses, Grupo de Monitoreo independiente de El Salvador, Asociación Pop No'j, Comisión de Acción Social Menonita, Trans Queer Pueblo, El Jardín de las Mariposas, Espacio Migrante, Programa de Asuntos Migratorios de la Universidad Iberoamericana, Una mano amiga en la lucha contra el Sida, A.C., Kanan DDHH, Casa Arcoíris, A.C., Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Matías de Córdova, A.C., in conjunction with Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO), Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS), and National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIPNLG)
Date: 
Dec 12, 2022
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Country: 
Canada
Mexico
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A coalition of organizations requested a thematic hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to address the link between the historical racialization in Central America, Mexico, the United States and Canada and discriminatory migration policies that imperil migrants at every stage in their journey.