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En El Salvador, COVID-19 representa una amenaza adicional para las personas afectadas por el desplazamiento forzado
news UNHCR, 19 May 2020 (4 years ago )En El Salvador el confinamiento tiene consecuencias particularmente graves para las personas desplazadas o que viven bajo la amenaza de pandillas y grupos criminales. -
For Salvadoran LGBTI people, “At the moment, it’s riskier than ever” | “Hay muchos riesgos y limitantes para las personas LGBTI en estos mom...
news UNHCR, 26 Jul 2020 (3 years ago )In Central America, the violent gangs that control many marginalized communities often single out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people – extorting, threatening and sometimes even killing them. LGBTI people in the region often have no choice but to flee their homes in searc... -
Forests in Guatemala find new guardians: refugees | Refugiados y solicitantes de asilo trabajan para preservar la biodiversidad de Guatemala
news UNHCR, 05 Jun 2020 (3 years ago )As rangers in some of Central America’s most biodiverse national parks, refugees and asylum-seekers get a fresh start while protecting threatened plant and animal species. Red the story in Spanish: https://www.acnur.org/noticias/historia/2020/6/5eda69e34/refugiados-y-solicitantes-de-asilo-trabaja... -
New high-frequency data highlights COVID-19’s major impact on livelihoods and food insecurity in Costa Rica
news UNHCR Blog, 05 Apr 2022 (2 years ago )In Costa Rica, the negative impacts of the pandemic continue to ripple through the economy – even as it partially recovers from 2020, when the country saw its sharpest economic contraction in decades resulting in high unemployment and rising poverty (World Bank, 2021). Nonetheless, through the pande... -
Nicaraguan refugee heals wounds of persecution in Costa Rica | Refugiada nicaragüense sana las heridas de la persecución en Costa Rica
news UNHCR, 25 Aug 2020 (3 years ago )It had been many years since Catalina* had finished her law degree when fear for her family’s safety and anger over what was happening in her native Nicaragua compelled her to move in with protesting students on a university campus as part of mass antigovernment demonstrations in 2018. One night, a... -
Nicaraguan students forced to flee find safety, solidarity in Costa Rica / Estudiantes nicaragüenses obligados a huir encuentran seguridad y...
news UNHCR, 11 Mar 2020 (4 years ago )To read the story in Spanish: https://bit.ly/2QdiwWO Students led anti-government protests and many have sought security abroad since a bloody crackdown began nearly two years ago. Engineering major Arturo* was in his fifth and final year of college when anti-government protests broke out in his ... -
Nicaraguans make their home in an idle Costa Rican factory / Nicaragüenses hacen de una fábrica costarricense abandonada su hogar
news UNHCR, 16 Oct 2019 (4 years ago )To read the story in Spanish: https://www.acnur.org/noticias/historia/2019/10/5da88a1f4/nicaraguenses-hacen-de-una-fabrica-costarricense-abandonada-su-hogar.html#_ga=2.150702582.134431261.1583859174-1181030147.1578932055 With its roof and walls made out of corrugated tin, a single spartan bathro... -
Personal tragedy drives Honduran social worker’s fight against gang violence | Una tragedia personal impulsa la lucha de un trabajador socia...
news UNHCR, 12 Aug 2020 (3 years ago )For Santiago Ávila, the fight against the powerful street gangs that terrorize communities throughout his native Honduras is deeply personal. He was 19 when his 16-year-old brother Mauricio was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by violent criminal gangs known as maras. But the tragedy did not end th... -
Refugee children hard hit by coronavirus school closures | La niñez refugiada se ve afectada por los cierres de las escuelas debido al coron...
news UNHCR, 11 May 2020 (4 years ago )Going to school was already a daily challenge for many displaced children around the world. Now there are fears some may not return after COVID-19 lockdowns lift. Isai* missed two years of school while his family was avoiding social unrest in his home country of Nicaragua and then fleeing first to ... -
Two years of political and social crisis in Nicaragua force more than 100,000 to flee / Más de 100.000 personas forzadas a huir de Nicaragua...
news UNHCR, 10 Mar 2020 (4 years ago )To read the story in Spanish: https://bit.ly/2TOkleY Even after the initial surge of violence in April 2018 subsided, Nicaraguan students, human rights defenders, journalists and farmers continue to flee their country at an average rate of 4,000 people every month. With no resolution to the interna...