Thousands of Venezuelans are arriving daily to the Peruvian border crossing of Tumbes, in northwest Peru. This is the story of Zorayne, who is just one of the thousands of Venezuelans who have arrived in Peru.

In Roraima, World Refugee Day was celebrated by means of a presentation where messages of hope, gratitude and memories of Venezuela were expressed in murals.

With medicine and food scarce at home, indigenous Warao and Wayúu peoples are abandoning their lands to seek refuge in Brazil and Colombia.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi and the Director General of the United Nations Migration Agency, IOM, William Lacy Swing appealed for greater support from the international community to the countries and communities in the region receiving a growing number of refugees and migran...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is supporting partners and local governments across Colombia and throughout the region to address the growing needs of Venezuelans on the move. Projects range from outfitting food kitchens and temporary shelters to bolstering the resources of hospitals and supporting ch...

On Tuesday, October 2, the Ambassador of Spain in Colombia, Pablo Gómez de Olea, together with the Deputy Representative of UNHCR in Colombia, Yukiko Iriyama, visited the International Bridge of Rumichaca to announce the contribution of Spain to UNHCR, which seeks to support the response in humanita...

During a visit to Peru following the flows of Venezuelan refugees and migrants, UNHCR chief says ensuring legal pathways to stay should be a regional priority.

Since August 2018, Tumbes, a hot and dusty border town in Peru’s arid northern coast, has seen the arrival of tens of thousands of destitute Venezuelan refugees and migrants. Currently, some 2,000 cross from Ecuador every day. UNHCR’s Special Envoy, Angelina Jolie, was there this week, in order to w...

Since 2015, more than two million Venezuelans have left their country and some 250,000 Venezuelans have remained in Ecuador. In 2018, for the first time the number of Venezuelan asylum seekers, at nearly 7,000, is higher than Colombians, at 3,800. “This humanitarian crisis cannot be addressed in an ...

Venezuelan children reaching Colombia are often susceptible to assault and are frequently underweight. “The most durable solution for children and their parents will be integration into their host communities, and part of that is getting them access to education,” said Jozef Merkx, UNHCR’s represent...