Working Group Description

The Protection Working Group (GTP for its acronym in Spanish) is established with the purpose of creating a strengthened protection environment, based on international human rights standards and the principles of international refugee law, in which refugees and migrants from Venezuela can exercise their right to asylum, access to immigration regularization alternatives and enjoy the protection established in national and international human rights, migrant and refugee rights law instruments; and also pay due attention to the needs of the host communities to avoid tensions and mitigate the impact of the arrival of refugees and migrants from Venezuela.