August 6, 2024

UN refugee representative urges Canada to take more active role in Venezuela humanitarian crisis

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Ottawa should take a leadership role on the Venezuela crisis, including looking at taking in more refugees from that country, says the UN refugee agency’s new representative to Canada. The United Nations body predicts that, by the end of this year, the collapse of the Venezuelan economy will cause the same number of people to be displaced as have been by the war in Syria. By Janice Dickson. Full text -> The Mail and Globe

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