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This brief provides an overview of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Migration Hub, established by Save the Children in Panama to support migration work in the region. The Hub is a flexible and cost-effective platform designed to address sustained and systemic needs of refugees and migrants in countries of origin, transit, destination, as well as issues of social and economic integration and re-integration in the region. The Hub complements and supports Save the Children’s extensive humanitarian responses in the region and works to increase Save the Children’s…
PANAMA CITY, Oct 11 (Reuters) - On their trek north towards the United States, some 19,000 migrant children have crossed the dangerous jungles that sprawl the border between Panama and Colombia so far this year, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said Monday.
The number of children who crossed the Darien Gap is almost three times higher than the total for the previous five years, it said in a statement, adding that one in five migrants crossing the border are children, and half of them is under five years old.
In 2021, at least five children were found dead in the jungle, the…