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Coronavirus threatens indigenous Venezuelans seeking safety in Brazil
COVID-19 has hit the Brazilian Amazon particularly hard, exposing highly vulnerable indigenous people from Venezuela to the potentially deadly disease.
Women and children in firing line as violence drives 23,000 more refugees from Nigeria
UNHCR steps up activities, despite COVID-19, to assist Niger as new influx of women and children refugees in April takes total figure to over 60,000.
Olympic Refuge Foundation: Sport can offer hope to displaced communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
The Olympic Refuge Foundation today highlighted how sport can help build resilience and boost the mental health of forcibly displaced young people.
Why we must help – and learn from – refugees this Ramadan
Across the Muslim world mosques stand empty, iftar meals are quiet affairs, and the joyful social gatherings that normally mark Ramadan have been abandoned.
Indigenous refugees battle Coronavirus in Latin America
As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads through Latin America, UNHCR is warning that many displaced indigenous refugees are now dangerously exposed and at risk.
As coronavirus spreads, refugee doctors want to join the fight
Trained medics and refugee doctors working as cashiers and wait staff want their qualifications recognized so they can save lives in the pandemic.
Self-help project in Niger churns out hygiene products in fight against coronavirus
Mini refugee ‘factory’ in Niger produces soap, liquid handwash, bleach and water containers for free distribution during the coronavirus pandemic.
In their host countries, two LGBTI refugees from Venezuela start new lives
LGBTI refugees often face a long road to safety. But for a gay man and a transwoman from Venezuela, building new lives in their host countries is a rebirth.
Honduran family starts new life across the country, but terror is never far
Hounded by gangs, the family from Honduras was among thousands of internally displaced people on the run within this small Central American nation.
Conflict and pandemic drive more people to risk deadly sea route from Libya
A Sudanese teenager survived brushes with death in a quest for asylum, but rising insecurity and COVID-19 drove him to risk all on the open seas near Libya.
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