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UNHCR calls on European nations to respect the right to asylum and stop immediate returns and violence

The Deputy High Commissioner for Protection Issues of the UN Refugee Agency warned about the situation, explaining that the agency “has received a continuous flow of reports according to which some European States are restricting access to asylum, returning people after having reached its territory or

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The coronavirus pandemic accentuates the displacement crisis in Central America

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported that at the end of 2019 violence forced some 720.000 people to leave their homes, almost half of them displaced within their countries. Thus, in Honduras the number amounted to around 247.000 people and in El Salvador it was around 71.500.

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