Migrants and Refugees

Indigenous men and women of Nuñoa in Puno, Peru, spin and weave garments based on the fiber of the alpacas.
SGP-GEF-UNDP Peru/Enrique Castro-Mendívil

Rights experts call for greater protection of indigenous people during migration

7 August 2018
Global

Governments are being urged to ensure that the rights of indigenous peoples are recognized, whether they are living on their traditional lands or forced to move elsewhere.

UNHCR staff verify and assist Venezuelan refugees, asylum seekers and persons of concern at the recently opened Rondon I shelter in Boa Vista, Roraima, in northern Brazil.
UNHCR/Reynesson Damasceno

Key Brazilian border crossing for Venezuela refugees reopens as asylum numbers pass last year's total

7 August 2018
Americas

Some 117,000 Venezuelans have claimed asylum already this year — more than for the whole of 2017 — the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, after welcoming a decision by the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court to reverse the closure of the country’s border with its northern neighbour.