UN agencies – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:08:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png UN agencies – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 ‘Working round the clock’ to aid Venezuelan refugees and migrants during COVID-19 pandemic: UN agencies https://onvenezuela.com/working-round-the-clock-to-aid-venezuelan-refugees-and-migrants-during-covid-19-pandemic-un-agencies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=working-round-the-clock-to-aid-venezuelan-refugees-and-migrants-during-covid-19-pandemic-un-agencies Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:08:36 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=2438

UNHCR and IOM emphasized that the worldwide COVID-19 emergency compounds an already desperate situation for many refugees and migrants from Venezuela and for the countries that have taken them in. Funding is urgently needed, they said, particularly as the economic impact of the pandemic begins to be felt across Latin America and the Caribbean.  Full text -> UN News

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