23 y/o newbie journalist and camera clicker from aotearoa 🇳🇿 doing life in bogota, colombia 🇨🇴
Bogotá, Colombia
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Migration through the #dariengap is becoming more global by the day, with tens of thousands of people crossing the jungle in 2024, from over 100 countries.
This creates challenges.
Especially for humanitarian groups who have been slow to adapt to things like language barriers
The internationalisation of migrants crossing the Darién Gap is putting pressure on aid groups to adapt to their specific needs. Because of the language barrier they are often at even greater risk than Latin American migrants.
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Young Catholics are leaving the church in droves, but 24-year-old NZ Catholic Timothy O’Farrell thinks the worldly new Pontiff’s concern for indigenous communities and the environment might stem the tide.
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"El Salvador's offer to house deportees and U.S. citizens in its infamous prisons – for profit – signals a new and troubling escalation in the criminalization of migration," writes @TimothyOFarrel1.
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Children passing through the Darién Gap face mental health challenges, and aid groups are under-resourced and unprepared to adequately address their needs, @TimothyOFarrel1 writes. nacla.org/life-beyond-darien…
Salazar found in her research that the best thing for children’s mental health in this context is simply to allow them to be children. “Children need to play. They need to have toys. They need to kick a ball around.”
Latest by me for @NACLA
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RIP Fr Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian shanty town priest and later Dominican friar, prophet of the poor, whose Theology of Liberation in 1971 reshaped contemporary theology. He has died aged 96 in Lima. larepublica.pe/politica/actu…
Más Allá de la Criminalización: El Trabajo de los Mochileros en el Tapón del Darién.
Latest by me for @Pacifistacol
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Tomorrow's front page of @ScotNational.
We publish a timeline of a year of Israel's bombardment of Gaza. It's all here in black and white - the war crimes, murdered journalists, flattened hospitals, orphaned children. 7567 words, 42,000 deaths. Don't look away.
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Thrilled to have this @RefugeesIntl report with @r_schmidtke out where we trace the humanitarian needs and responses of migrants passing through both Panama and Costa Rica
Humanitarian needs along the Darien will remain high for the foreseeable future as migration through the gap continues.
In our latest report, @r_schmidtke describes how Panama + Costa Rica can meet these needs and ensure that migrants’ rights are upheld.
refugeesinternational.org/re…
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You should read the bible verses on migration: Ezekial 4:22
"Sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.”
“Deberían establecer un permiso especial de residencia, para promover la formalización y un marco de protección en asuntos laborales”, Laura Orduz.
Hoy salió mi primer artículo en @elespectador sobre los venezolanos que mantienen limpias las calles de Bogotá, pero sin derechos.
Sin permiso para trabajar, ni los beneficios y seguridades que debe tener un empleado, los recicladores venezolanos salen cada día a buscar 🔗👇 trib.al/z9igVwj
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1/ For the Atlantic's September cover story, I took 3 trips to the Darien Gap to try to understand the forces driving people there: instability, policy failures, and smuggling orgs that are eager to take advantage. @lynseyaddario captured it all.
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I'm dreading an increase in coming months' flow of Venezuelans fleeing through the Darién Gap.
Recall this @AP report from May: apnews.com/article/venezuela…
ALT From linked article: A nationwide poll conducted last month by the Venezuela-based research firm Delphos showed that roughly a fourth of people are thinking about migrating, primarily for economic reasons. Of those thinking about leaving Venezuela, about 47% said an electoral win by the opposition would make them stay and roughly the same amount indicated that an improved economy would also keep them in their home country. Migration decisions are dominating conversations at malls, high schools and political rallies. Some people are saving whatever money they can from various jobs and others are selling their belongings.
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But that didnt stop big shows of support in Bogotá
📸 by @TimothyOFarrel1
Of the 2.8 million Venezuelans in Colombia, 4000 were eligible to vote in VZ elections today due to intentional hurdles set up by the Maduro government, according to Universidad Javeriana researcher @ronalfrodriguez
Happening now in Bogotá, thousands of Venezuelans are chanting ‘libertad, libertad’ and dancing in the streets.
But many just want to go home…
#EleccionesVenezuela #Bogotá #venezuela
