In Costa Rica, the negative impacts of the pandemic continue to ripple through the economy – even as it partially recovers from 2020, when the country saw its sharpest economic contraction in decades resulting in high unemployment and rising poverty (World Bank, 2021). Nonetheless, through the pande...

ACNUR, la Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados, ha entregado 200 kits de higiene al Ministerio de Desarrollo Local de El Salvador (MINDEL) en apoyo a la respuesta humanitaria que, a través de Ciudad Mujer, reciben las mujeres que se deben dejar sus hogares a causa de la violencia. En El Salvador, ...

ACNUR, la Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados, ha realizado este día la donación de equipos electrónicos y de bioseguridad para el Consejo Nacional de la Niñez y de la Adolescencia (CONNA) y el Ministerio de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología (MINEDUCYT) como parte de un proceso de fortalecimiento in...

ACNUR, la Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados, entregó hoy, como resultado de las gestiones del Director General de Migración y Extranjería, Ricardo Cucalón, a la Gerencia de Atención al Migrante, dos microbuses que facilitarán las operaciones en atención a personas retornadas al país con necesida...

ACNUR, la Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados, y el colectivo artístico inclusivo salvadoreño Entre Colores y Sombras presentan el cuento Tintino, la versión en cuento infantil de la obra de teatro Tintino de la autora Melissa Córdova. A través de un diseño que facilita la lectura, la historia de ...

More than three quarters of Nicaraguan refugees and asylum seekers in Costa Rica are going hungry, eating only once or twice a day as a result of the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned that this could drive returns in adverse conditions. ...

It had been many years since Catalina* had finished her law degree when fear for her family’s safety and anger over what was happening in her native Nicaragua compelled her to move in with protesting students on a university campus as part of mass antigovernment demonstrations in 2018. One night, a...

For Santiago Ávila, the fight against the powerful street gangs that terrorize communities throughout his native Honduras is deeply personal. He was 19 when his 16-year-old brother Mauricio was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by violent criminal gangs known as maras. But the tragedy did not end th...

The violent death of a transgender asylum seeker in Guatemala last weekend highlights the need for effective protection to be granted to people forced to flee their countries, including members of the LGBTI community, urges UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency today Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and rela...

In Central America, the violent gangs that control many marginalized communities often single out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people – extorting, threatening and sometimes even killing them. LGBTI people in the region often have no choice but to flee their homes in searc...