i. Venezuela situation: By the end of 2021, the number of refugees and migrants from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela surpassed six million globally. Close to 83 per cent of them are hosted in Latin America and the Caribbean. More than 186,000 have been recognized as refugees, and over 952,000 have lodged asylum claims. In the region, an additional 2.6 million have been granted some form of residency or regular stay permit. Full Text -> Reliefweb

Traducción de cortesía -> i. Situación de Venezuela: A fines de 2021, el número de refugiados y migrantes de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela superó los seis millones a nivel mundial. Cerca del 83 por ciento de ellos están alojados en América Latina y el Caribe. Más de 186.000 han sido reconocidos como refugiados y más de 952.000 han presentado solicitudes de asilo. En la región, otros 2,6 millones han obtenido algún tipo de permiso de residencia o estancia regular

As third-year law student practitioners, Tim Anderson, Hannah Spencer, Sarah Theisen and Dylan Wallace argued to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that not only did a lower court unfairly bar asylum, but that the ruling had procedural defects and should therefore be remanded back to immigration court. In a rare decision, a BIA judge agreed. The family was eventually granted asylum in March. By Carrie Hilger. Full Text -> U.St.Thomas

Through this contribution, UNHCR and its partners will be able to carry out empowerment initiatives and provide protection assistance, particularly to women, gender-based-violence survivors, children and youth. The contribution also aims to scale up emergency shelter and reception capacities for new arrivals at border areas between Colombia and Venezuela, and community centres for internally displaced persons.

The depth of the Venezuelan crisis continues to damage its social fabric and dramatically widen the exodus of the population. The new 2020 Global Forced Displacement Trends Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reveals that Venezuelans constituted last year “the second largest population of people displaced across borders” behind Syria. By magictr. Full Text -> TheSaxon

The event is part of Fabiola Delgado and Faride Mereb‘s Notions of Exile exhibition at Washington Project for the Arts, which runs through March 15. Delgado will be performing an interactive reading of some humorous short stories from Aquiles Nazoa‘s The Private Life of Rag Dolls, a work published in Venezuela in 1975. After the reading, there will also be a doll-making activity for participants young and old to express their stories through dolls made of everyday materials. By Tristan Jung . Full Text -> WashingtonCityPaper

The initiative is part of a project implemented by AVSI Brasil, a humanitarian aid and development agency with links to the Catholic Church, and Brazil’s Migration and Human Rights Institute and is designed to support and complement Operation Welcome, the Brazilian government-led response to the Venezuelan migration crisis. This migration institute is administered by the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo. By Lise Alves . Full Text -> Crux

The program, which is coordinated with civic institutions including the Catholic Church, offers Brazilian residency and hosts the refugees and migrants in shelters for a limited time, until they are sent to other regions in the country to find work and start a new life. By Eduardo Campos Lima. Full Text -> America: TheJesuitReview

Diego Jesus Rada Rojas, a nuclear physicist from Venezuela, arrived at Toronto Pearson International Airport in the summer of 2017 on a flight from Santiago, Chile. He had travelled on a tourist visa – but this was no vacation. Full Text -> UTNews

We, the undersigned organizations working on Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, recognize the difficult situation of all governments as they respond to the public health crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. We write to you, however, to express our deep concern about the reported deportation on 18 September of 93 Venezuelans, who were sent back to the grave human rights and humanitarian emergency that they were fleeing. The deportation of asylum seekers runs counter to the basic international law principle of non-refoulment. Full Text-> HumanRightsWatch

Today, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), with support from Tripadvisor, Jigsaw, Zendesk, and Nethope, launched InfoPalante, a digital platform to help displaced populations and Venezuelan refugees living in Colombia. Users will be able to access crucial information on civil and legal rights, jobs, and access to healthcare. The platform provides a detailed map of services and social media channels for the community to provide feedback and questions. Full Text-> International Rescue Committee