Over 5,000 Venezuelans find new homes through Brazil’s internal relocation programme

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Over 5,000 Venezuelans find new homes through Brazil’s internal relocation programme

UNHCR News, 15 Mar 2019

URL: https://www.unhcr.org/news/briefing/2019/3/5c8b6cd44/5000-venezuelans-find-new-homes-brazils-internal-relocation-programme.html
Over 5,000 Venezuelans have been relocated from Brazil’s northern state of Roraima to 17 other states in the country, thanks to an innovative internal relocation programme supported by UNHCR, the UN Refugee agency, civil society and other UN agencies such as IOM, UNFPA and UNDP.

According to official figures, Brazil has received more than 200,000 Venezuelans since 2017. Some 85,000 of them have lodged asylum claims, while some 40,000 have received temporary resident visas.

The relocation initiative, implemented in coordination with Government, civil society, the private sector and other UN agencies on the basis of the Global Compact on Refugees, is creating new local integration opportunities for Venezuelan refugees and migrants in other parts of Brazil.