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Between migration policies and health policies: Haitian migrants in transit through Chile, Colombia and Mexico

Nadia Irina Santillanes Allande — 2025-06-30

In the last decade, intra-regional migration in Latin America and the Caribbean has been intensified by the mobility of people coming mainly from Venezuela and Haiti. One of the main issues that has attracted the most attention is the new migratory corridors connecting the south and north of our continent, where the Haitian population appears as one of the groups with the greatest number of migrants throughout the Americas. The objective of this article is to analyze the relationship between migration policies and health policies for migrants, as well as the correspondence between the two to guarantee access to health care for the Haitian population residing in and transiting through Chile, Colombia and Mexico. Methodologically, this text is based on the analysis of migration policies and health regulations in each of these countries, as well as on interviews with both migrants and institutional actors to learn about the difficulties in accessing health care. The study concludes that, despite having a legal framework that recognizes health as a right in the three countries of arrival or transit analyzed, access continues to be restrictive for this population, either because they are not legalized, or because of the absence of information at different levels, inefficient bureaucracy towards these population groups for access to health services, xenophobia, as well as lack of training for health personnel in intercultural and health issues.

The specific rights of international migrants within the mexican accusatory criminal system

Aarón Jesús Baeza Lavadores — 2025-06-30

This document focuses on the development of the specific human rights afforded to international migrants, both regular and irregular, within the mexican criminal justice system. It also provides a comprehensive description of the jurisprudential line that has been developed both within the Inter American Human Rights System and by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation on this matter. To that end, it includes a specific review of the following aspects: What specific rights do victims have? and What specific rights do the accused have?

Overcoming child corporal punishment from a human rights perspective, scientific evidence and a pedagogy of the subject

José Bernardo Zegarra Siles — 2025-06-30

Corporal punishment is one of the most widespread forms of violence against children worldwide and in Latin America, resulting in its naturalization, which tends to be justified as something “inevitable” in their education and discipline. In this sense, this paper addresses the challenge of defining corporal punishment as a form of violence and violation of the human rights of children, proposing a set of guidelines for its elimination. The various human rights instruments clearly establish that corporal punishment is incompatible with respect for the intrinsic dignity of children. Within this framework, and based on an exhaustive documentary review of official figures, international treaties, general observations of human rights committees, scientific research, and relevant texts, the article puts forward a set of three proposals to advance the elimination of corporal punishment of children: a) banish the adult-centric vision that underpins corporal punishment; b) promote a human rights approach based on scientific evidence, and c) move from a repressive and domesticating pedagogy to a pedagogy of the subject, where each child is recognized as a subject of rights.

Número 28. Versión completa

Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México — 2025-06-30

Enero-junio de 2025.
ISSN: 2007-2740
Material en versión electrónica.