Msf Clinics: Msf and Migrants

msf clinics: However, people escaping the region have long been painted as economic migrants by countries of refuge, including Canada, says the group, widely known by its French name, M decins Sans Fronti res, or MSF. Migrants wait in limbo, hoping for sanctuary in Canada Refugee claims at Canada-U.S. border have doubled A report released by MSF on Thursday draws on comprehensive medical data gathered by MSF teams on the ground in Mexico, according to CBC. Nearly 40 per cent of interviewed migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala treated in MSF clinics in Mexico cited direct attacks or threats to themselves or their families, extortion, or gang-forced recruitment as the main reasons for fleeing their countries. The aid group says an estimated 500,000 people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala flee into Mexico every year from the three violence-plagued countries, where rates of murder, kidnapping and sexual violence are comparable to those in full-blown war zones. Of the refugees and migrants surveyed, nearly half had a relative who had been killed due to violence in the previous two years. While the dynamics are different, the situation in Central America is not dissimilar from the kind of forced migration I have seen working for this organization in the Middle East, or in places like South Sudan, says Cone. Canada must urgently rethink its approach to immigration from the region, including formal resettlement, said Jason Cone, executive director of MSF USA, who is calling the policies of refuge countries such as Canada and the United States as wholly inefficient to the gravity of the situation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.