WOLA: Advocacy for Human Rights in the Americas

Addressing the Root Causes of Migration

WOLA supports targeted efforts to improve conditions in Central America that mitigate the underlying driving factors of migration—these include violence, insecurity, poverty, and climate change, all exacerbated by endemic corruption and poor governance. Efforts aimed at ameliorating these conditions can help reduce the violence, poverty, and helplessness that compels people to make the dangerous decision to migrate to the United States.