Venezuela

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Vulnerable Venezuelan refugees need more aid: UNHCR’s Filippo Grandi

9 October 2018
Interviews

On a visit to the Colombian border, UN refugee agency chief, Filippo Grandi, said the international community must do more to aid thousands of Venezuelans leaving the country each day. Mr. Grandi spoke to the UN Information Centre’s Edith Girval. 

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UNICEF/Rajat Madhok

Venezuela prisons ‘beyond monstrous’, UN warns, highlighting plight of Colombian detainees

9 October 2018
Human Rights

Conditions in Venezuela’s prisons are “beyond monstrous”, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday, before calling for an independent and transparent investigation into the death of a leading political opponent of the Government.

UNICEF/Amer Al Shami

News In Brief 11 September 2018

11 September 2018
Interviews
  • Syria’s Idlib risks becoming worst humanitarian tragedy of 21st century: OCHA
  • OHCHR on Myanmar freedom of expression violations
  • Venezuela ready for “new cooperation” with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
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UNICEF/Patrick Brown

News in Brief 24 August 2018

24 August 2018
News in Brief
  • Rohingya emergency one year on: thousands of lives saved, but challenges remain
  • DRC Ebola outbreak latest: response scaling up, but threats remain
  • Venezuela exodus is stretching neighbours’ patience, warns UN migration agency IOM
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Israa Hamad

News in Brief 23 August 2018

23 August 2018
News in Brief
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UNHCR/Sebastian Castañeda

Greater support needed for refugees and migrants from Venezuela – UN

23 August 2018
Migrants and Refugees

As hundreds of Venezuelans continue to pour into neighbouring countries due to social and political upheaval at home, the heads of the United Nations refugee and migration agencies called for greater international support to meet the most basic needs of the displaced.

UNHCR/Paul Smith

Venezuelan exodus to Ecuador reaches record levels: UN refugee agency steps up aid

10 August 2018
Migrants and Refugees

One of the largest population movements in Latin American history is under way from Venezuela, according to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, which on Friday confirmed that it is increasing assistance to neighbouring Ecuador, where more and more Venezuelans are arriving each week.

UNHCR/Reynesson Damasceno

News In Brief 07 August 2018

7 August 2018
News in Brief
  • Venezula asylum numbers already higher than last year: UNHCRHide summary
  • More than 2,000 Somalis return home amid growing conflict in Yemen
  • Indonesia quake has left ‘ghost towns’ and destruction: IFRC
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UNHCR/Reynesson Damasceno

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

7 August 2018
Migrants and Refugees

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.

UNICEF/Christine Nesbitt

News in Brief 22 June 2018

22 June 2018
News in Brief
  • US migrant children policy reversal ‘fails’ thousands of youngsters already held: UN experts
  • Human rights chief calls for international probe on Venezuela
  • Women’s rights facing global pushback from conservativism, fundamentalism, UN experts warn
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