“The situation of irregularity for lack of documentation in which millions of people are in a situation of refugee and migration, places them at a disadvantage with respect to the rest of society, and maintains them in a circle of poverty and discrimination,” the SJR said in a statement.

It said that the Jesuit Service for Refugees in Latin America and the Caribbean marks the International Day of the Migrant, on December 18 by making that call specifically to the countries Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, where it carries out his mission.

It adds that the international community must take the necessary steps to guarantee that all displaced refugees and access to their humanitarian status, and for migrants to their identification documents and thus search of a worthy life for them and their families in equal conditions.