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Family sits in the rubble of the house they lost in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti.
© UNICEF/Georges Harry Rouzier

UNICEF: Haiti children vulnerable to ‘violence, poverty and displacement’

23 September 2021
Migrants and Refugees

As Haiti continues to reel from the “triple tragedy” of natural disasters, gang violence and the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) expressed concern on Thursday that two-thirds of Haitian migrants expelled from the United States border in recent days are women and children – including newborns with “specific and immediate needs”.

Asylum seekers, including children, at the Matamoros camp awaiting their US immigration hearings in Mexico.
UNICEF/César Amador

UNHCR alarmed over US 'expulsion flights' to southern Mexico

11 August 2021
Migrants and Refugees

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) raised concern on Wednesday over a new policy by the United States, using public health orders linked to COVID-19, to expel some asylum-seekers and migrants by flying them to southern Mexico.