Why thousands of children in Central America are forced to flee
By Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR Canada Representative Last fall, I travelled to Honduras, meeting children sheltered in a project supported by UNHCR. To break the ice, I asked what you might ask any teen: “What’s your dream when you grow up?” To my surprise, quite a few...
Voice from the field: A UNHCR emergency response coordinator in Bangladesh
UNHCR Emergency Response Coordinator Joung-ah Ghedini-Williams is currently on assignment in Bangladesh, where an estimated 607,000 refugees have streamed across the border from Myanmar. Here is her personal account of a day in the Kutupalong refugee camp and...“If you leave, no one will shoot you:” A grandmother’s plea in Honduras
“My grandmother wanted me to leave. She told me: ‘If you don’t join, the gang will shoot you. If you do join, the rival gang will shoot you—or the cops will shoot you. But if you leave, no one will shoot you’.”...