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From the RIDHE, we make an urgent call for solidarity and commitment to human rights. As part of our Humanitarian Assistance Program, we accompany migrants and refugees — including indigenous people — who face multiple forms of exclusion and vulnerability.
📍 Today we highlight a critical case:
A Miskite woman, an asylum seeker, is in a borderline situation. After a medical emergency, she was admitted to intensive care. Although he is in the process of recovery, his health remains fragile.
⚠ You urgently need a habitable place, with electricity, drinking water and free of moisture. Currently, he does not have a safe space to live in, putting his recovery and physical integrity at risk.
🔻 The Miskita community has historically been marginalized and displaced. In exile, their situation worsens even more.
💥 Your support can make a difference. Reinita Seferino urgently needs to raise funds to rent a safe and decent space where she can continue her recovery.
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CONTEXT
The Miskite community in Nicaragua is facing a critical situation that has forced many of its members, especially women and girls, to seek refuge in Costa Rica. This forced displacement is due to a combination of structural and emerging factors that threaten their security, rights and survival. Since 2018, the North Caribbean Coast region of Nicaragua, the ancestral home of the Miskito people, has been the scene of an intensification of violence and repression. Settlers have systematically invaded indigenous territories, committing acts of violence that include murders, kidnappings and sexual assaults. Girls and adolescents are particularly vulnerable, being victims of coercion, abuse and sexual exploitation. Impunity prevails, as Nicaraguan authorities not only fail to protect these communities, but they sometimes persecute the very indigenous leaders who denounce these crimes.
In addition, structural poverty and historical abandonment by the State have exacerbated the situation, leaving Miskite communities without access to basic services and in conditions of extreme vulnerability. The combination of violence, political repression and territorial dispossession has led to a significant increase in the number of displaced persons seeking safety in neighboring countries, with Costa Rica being one of the main destinations.
Although Costa Rica has a legal framework that protects refugees and migrants, in practice, Miskito people face multiple challenges to integrate into Costa Rican society. Regularizing your immigration status is a complex and slow process, limiting your access to essential services such as health, education and employment. Many Miskite women, upon arriving in the country, find themselves in a situation of irregularity, which exposes them to precarious working conditions and exploitation. Economic insecurity and structural discrimination aggravate their situation, leaving them in a state of precariousness and vulnerability.
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