{"id":2039,"date":"2020-01-22T05:47:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gfmdcivilsociety.org\/staging\/9981\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2020-01-23T00:49:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T23:49:29","slug":"12th-gfmd-civil-society-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfmdcivilsociety.org\/staging\/9981\/12th-gfmd-civil-society-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"12th GFMD Civil Society Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jos\u00e9 Dolores Suazo Mej\u00eda (Don Lolo), president of COFAMICENH (Committee of Families of Disappeared Migrants from Central Honduras) is one of this year’s co-chairs of the Global Forum on Migration and Development Civil Society Mechanism.

In this short video interview he talks about the expectations of civil society organizations for this year’s Summit.
 
\u201cLike Martin Luther King said he had a dream, we in civil society can say we have hope. We have the hope that we can influence our governments so that they will recognize the issues faced by the migrant community,\u201d Don Lolo says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCivil society organizations are promoters. We promote social equality, we uphold human rights, and we protect life,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are so many things I’d like to ask for. But the truth is that in fact all of them come down to one: that we may become more humane.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch the video!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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