2023-04-13 02:15:00
The pain of those who are looking for a loved one, of those who are forced to leave their homes to save their lives and the lives of their families, and of the communities that do not have access to essential services, such as medical care and education, is similar to that faced by people in other parts of the world affected by armed conflict.
As a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian organization, we work hand in hand with the National Red Cross Societies in the region, the authorities and people affected by armed violence, to protect their lives and dignity.
In this report, the ICRC gives an account of its humanitarian action and warns of the existence of profound humanitarian consequences associated with violence, such as disappearances, homicides, internal displacements and migrations.
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Mexico and Central America: armed violence affects the lives of thousands of people
Violence in our region is persistent, historical, its causes are deep-seated and it is also a daily reality: it generates new victims every day that need to be attended to immediately. In that difficult balance between the structural and the urgent, between attacking a problem that requires long-term solutions and attending to and mitigating the permanent humanitarian consequences that it generates, we work as the ICRC in Mexico and Central America.
I first came to this region in 2015 to coordinate the ICRC’s program for missing persons and their families: many families have been looking for their loved ones for several years and probably still are; others struggled to understand the complexities of the system to activate urgent search mechanisms in the face of the recent disappearance of a loved one. They all needed attention and answers: the structural and the urgent.
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