Amidst escalating violence in Mali, UNHCR issues new protection guidelines
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. In light of the deteriorating humanitarian and security situation, UNHCR, the UN...
Indigenous people from Venezuela seek safety across the border in Brazil
After violence broke out in their native Venezuela, hundreds of members of the Pemon indigenous group fled to a village across the border in Brazil. By Roger Burks in Tarauparu, Brazil One night in February, the inhabitants of a tiny indigenous hamlet in one of the...
Pregnant women flee lack of maternal health care in Venezuela
Thousands of pregnant women have left Venezuela to protect the lives of their unborn babies and their own. By Alejandra Romo in Maicao, Colombia Roxibel Pulido, 29, was three months pregnant when she heard that the nearest hospital from her neighborhood, in the city...