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COVID-19 driving Nicaraguan refugees to hunger and desperation | La COVID-19 lleva a los refugiados nicaragüenses al hambre y la desesperaci...
news UNHCR, 28 Aug 2020 (3 years ago )More than three quarters of Nicaraguan refugees and asylum seekers in Costa Rica are going hungry, eating only once or twice a day as a result of the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned that this could drive returns in adverse conditions. ... -
Death of transgender asylum seeker in Guatemala highlights increased risks and protection needs for LGBTI community | La muerte de una solic...
news UNHCR, 06 Aug 2020 (3 years ago )The violent death of a transgender asylum seeker in Guatemala last weekend highlights the need for effective protection to be granted to people forced to flee their countries, including members of the LGBTI community, urges UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency today Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and rela... -
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... -
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 -
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... -
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... -
New high-frequency data highlights COVID-19’s major impact on livelihoods and food insecurity in Costa Rica
news UNHCR Blog, 05 Apr 2022 (1 year 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... -
ACNUR en El Salvador dona dos microbuses a la Gerencia de Atención al Migrante en apoyo al fortalecimiento de sus servicios
news UNHCR, 14 Feb 2022 (2 years ago )ACNUR, la Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados, entregó hoy, como resultado de las gestiones del Director General de Migración y Extranjería, Ricardo Cucalón, a la Gerencia de Atención al Migrante, dos microbuses que facilitarán las operaciones en atención a personas retornadas al país con necesida... -
En El Salvador, COVID-19 representa una amenaza adicional para las personas afectadas por el desplazamiento forzado
news UNHCR, 19 May 2020 (3 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.