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Refugees and migrants from Venezuela attend the "Concert Without Borders" supported by IOM and UNHCR on the northern border of Ecuador
news UNHCR News, 17 Dec 2018 (5 years ago )As part of the activities that took place in Ecuador to commemorate Migrant International Day, the Foreign Ministry of Ecuador, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) supported the "Concert Without Borders", organized by the Orquesta Joven del Ecuador on... -
Pregnant women flee lack of maternal health care in Venezuela
news UNHCR News, 23 Jul 2019 (4 years ago )Thousands of pregnant women have left Venezuela to protect the lives of their unborn babies and their own. -
Personas jóvenes desplazadas en las Américas cuentan su historia, a través del fútbol, en una nueva serie de ACNUR y Goal Click
news UNHCR Ecuador, 24 Nov 2022 (1 year ago )El día de hoy, con el fin de resaltar el poder del fútbol para fomentar la inclusión e impulsar el bienestar físico y mental de las comunidades desplazadas y de acogida en toda América Latina, la Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados (ACNUR) y Goal Click lanzaron una nueva edición de la serie Goal C... -
Pacaraima Government Reception Center welcomes Venezuelans in Brazil with UN support
news UNHCR Web Story, 18 Jul 2018 (5 years ago )The Pacaraima Reception Center offers information, social and health services for Venezuelans who choose to stay in Brazil. UNHCR is carrying out biometric registration at the centre and identifying specific needs. -
Over 5,000 Venezuelans find new homes through Brazil’s internal relocation programme
news UNHCR News, 15 Mar 2019 (5 years ago )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 offi... -
Older Colombians and Venezuelans take care of each other under the same roof
news UNHCR News, 11 Jun 2019 (4 years ago )Grandpa’s House hosts Colombian seniors who were left alone. Now it has increased its capacity to also shelter Venezuelans on the run. -
Number of refugees and migrants from Venezuela reaches 3 million
news UNHCR News, 08 Nov 2018 (5 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and IOM, the UN Migration Agency, announced that the number of refugees and migrants from Venezuela worldwide has now reached three million. According to data from national immigration authorities and other sources, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean host an e... -
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... -
Majority fleeing Venezuela in need of refugee protection – UNHCR
news UNHCR News, 21 May 2019 (4 years ago )Given the worsening political, economic, human rights and humanitarian situation in Venezuela that to date has seen 3.7 million people leave, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, now considers that the majority of those fleeing the country are in need of international refugee protection. In an updated g... -
Lima: the story of a Venezuelan woman "made with love"
news UNHCR Web Story, 18 Jun 2018 (5 years ago )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.