Defending the Rights of Migrants in Panama
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Kim Lamberty, Executive Director, Quixote Center
kim@quixote.org; 301-699-0042
Take Action for Haiti
Haiti is desperate. According to the UN special envoy to Haiti, criminal gangs control 80% of the capital and are moving further and further into other parts of the country, leaving many people trapped in their homes with little means to feed their families, or forced to flee their homes with nothing. Scarcity of gasoline and water, and high prices of essential products are transforming an already distressed State into ashes.
Human Rights in Panama’s Darien Gap
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
-Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Article 13/14
The Intolerable Role of the United States in Haiti
Haiti’s capital has shut down. With gangs in control, the airport is closed, roads are blocked and the de facto prime minster is stuck in Puerto Rico.
Quixote Center Travels to Panama
Beginning on Monday, March 11, Quixote center will be leading a group of nine advocates to bear witness to the migrant experience in Panama.
Migrants face extreme conditions crossing through Panama’s treacherous Darien Gap; and yet desperation led 500,000 migrants to pass through last year alone.
Homeland InSecurity
We are getting closer to unpacking the complicated web of laws and agencies responsible for preventing U.S.- made weapons from getting into the hands of criminal elements in Haiti.
On Wednesday Quixote Center convened partner organizations together with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff director in charge of global trade violations and export enforcement coordination.
Armed Gangs Invade Gros Morne
Last week saw days of violent protests in Haiti. Thousands took to the streets across the country to demand that de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry step down, as required by law on February 7.
The Quixote Center and Franciscan Network on Migration Call on Congress to Vote Against Anti-Immigrant Proposals
The Quixote Center and Franciscan Network on Migration Call on Congress to Vote Against Anti-Immigrant Proposals
What’s the Quixote Center Doing in Haiti?
We have arrived at an important moment in Haiti’s history. 220 years ago, on January 1, 1804, the people of Haiti declared their independence from enslavement and colonial rule. Haiti’s path since then has been grueling. Global powers at the time, including and especially the United States and France, imposed multiple barriers in the path of freedom for the first Black republic.
What’s Quixote Center doing in Panama?
In 2023, migrant crossings through Panama reached a historic high, as half a million people traversed the deadly Darién gap, and one
Migrant Communities Are not Disposable
Our current refugee and asylum systems were created in response to the horrific failure of the U.S. to accept Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, and instead turning them away.