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What it means to be an LGBTI refugee | Lo que significa ser una persona refugiada LGBTI
news UNHCR, 16 May 2020 (3 years ago )Right now, someone is fleeing for their life because of their gender identity, sexual orientation or sex characteristics. Read the story in Spanish: https://www.acnur.org/noticias/historia/2020/5/5ec300614/lo-que-significa-ser-una-persona-refugiada-lgbti.html -
UNHCR welcomes new law in El Salvador to help people internally displaced by violence - ACNUR acoge con beneplácito la adopción de una nueva...
news UNHCR, 10 Jan 2020 (4 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes El Salvador’s passage of legislation to protect, aid and offer durable solutions to people internally displaced in the Central American nation due to violence from organized crime and criminal gangs, as well as those who may be at risk of displacement. -
UNHCR welcomes commitment by Central American states and Mexico to address forced displacement / ACNUR aplaude compromiso de los Estados cen...
news UNHCR, 09 Nov 2019 (4 years ago )To read the story in Spanish: https://bit.ly/2TR7Mj7 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the commitment by six Central American countries and Mexico to strengthen their efforts to address and prevent forced displacement in their region, in line with the spirit of solidarity and shared responsibi... -
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... -
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 (3 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 ... -
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... -
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... -
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 ... -
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... -
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...