Lockdown learners: Refugee students on challenges during pandemic
To understand the challenges refugee students faced as the coronavirus swept around the world, we asked two members of the Canada-based Refugee Education Council – one in Lima, Peru, and one in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya – to quiz each other about how they had...
Data visualization brings to light COVID-19’s threats to forcibly displaced women and children
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is today releasing a new data visualization, which highlights the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the safety and wellbeing of forcibly displaced women and children. Seventy per cent of all forcibly displaced people...
Data points to negative impacts of COVID-19 for forcibly displaced women and children
A new data visualization shows how the pandemic has deepened the risks of violence and abuse for displaced women and children. The coronavirus pandemic has had a damaging impact on the lives of millions of refugees and internally displaced people, but the consequences...