The United Nations is prompting Canada to help the vulnerable asylum seekers of Mexico with resettling. These refugees include LGBTQ persons, women and children.
A striking number of Mexico people are escaping from Mexico to Central America countries. Mexico representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mark Manly said, “Our pitch to Canada is to do more.”
Earlier this month, Manly was in Ottawa for meetings with the federal government to look forward to various ways to help asylum seekers.
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Counting of asylum seekers is increasing day by day. Refugees from Honduras, El Salvador and Venezuela raised the percentage of asylum claims.
Mexico said a plethora of migrants can have an easy settlement in the nations as per their skills and nation’s requirement of labours. However, women and LGBTQ have to be settled somewhere as being unsafe.
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Manly said, “UNHCR wants to take the pressure off Mexican authorities to take care of this kind of profile and resettle them to Canada.”
Further, he said, “Criminal gangs are proliferating each day in Central America. They usually extort money and kill people. Not just that, they also forcefully recruit young boys and girls in the gang.
Manly also said, “Anyone who gets in the way is at severe risk, so entire families leave. That explains the demographic change.”
He added, “Canada is already doing a few things in terms of technical support for the Mexican asylum system, resettlement of people who face extreme protection risks in the region.”
Moreover, he said, “These are countries that are close by; they are countries with which Canada has close ties, Mexico being the most important of them.”
Earlier, The Ontario-based World Refugee Council released a report. The reports say, “It is estimated that six out of 10 migrant women and girls are victims of sexual violence carried out by illicit actors, government authorities and intimate partners. However, most of what is known are anecdotal and there is an urgent need for a stronger evidence base in order to inform policy.”
The chair of the refugee council, Lloyd Axworthy toured Mexican refugee camps near the border city of Tijuana last year at the height of the caravan activity and described the situation as dire and entrenched.
Axworthy said, “What it demonstrates is that as long as the conflicts take place and the violence going on, you’re going to have people trying to escape. And it’s going to be in our region.”
