Hundreds of Migrants Face Sex Attacks in Darien Gap, Says MSF

FILE - Migrants heading north arrive in Lajas Blancas, Darien province, Panama, on Oct. 6, 2023, after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia. Doctors Without Borders reported on Nov. 17 that many women migrants have been sexually assaulted this year in the jungle stretch.

Nearly 400 U.S.-bound migrants, most of them women, have endured sexual violence this year as they crossed a notorious jungle stretch between Panama and Colombia, according to Doctors Without Borders, or MSF.