InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/04/16
During a visit to Italy by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi, Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese expressed a willingness to step up shared initiatives for refugee reception and humanitarian corridors.
Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese met Wednesday, April 14 with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi for an in-depth discussion on issues of shared interest, especially in light of the effects of migration flows generated by a severe economic and social crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The minister outlined the results achieved through consolidated collaboration with UNHCR and showed a willingness to step up these shared initiatives for refugee reception, referring in particular to the organizing of transfers via humanitarian corridors.
Time is running out: urgent action needed to address humanitarian crisis in Tigray
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With the situation in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region at a dangerous turning point, the international community has yet to take decisive action. Diplomatic, humanitarian, and human rights groups have increasingly spoken out, urging the Ethiopian government to allow relief workers to deliver adequate levels of emergency aid to the beleaguered population. Unfortunately, they have had little success.
More than 6 million people remain trapped in the fighting between Ethiopia’s military (ENDF), allied militia, and the Eritrean army (EDF) on one side, and the reconstituted rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other. An estimated 2.2 million people have been displaced by the conflict, of which some 61,000 have fled to Sudan, many with only the clothes on their backs. Among these refugees are many who have been separated from their families for months, including
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An estimated 900,000 Venezuelan migrants and refugees residing in Colombia will be offered protective status in the country for 10-years as part of a “Regularization Program” announced on Monday between the government of President Iván Duque and United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.
The decree will formalize employment conditions for thousands of undocumented laborers and those working illegally in the country. The program will also facilitate Resident Visa applications by the state’s immigration authority Migración Colombia.
The Temporary Protection Statute for Venezuelan migrants (ETPV) is a road map for other South American nations to legalize the conditions of 6 million migrants, claims the United Nations. “We hope other countries follow by example,” remarked President Duque, accompanied by representatives of the diplomatic corps. “This step allows us to have clarity with the international commu
The United Nations
The United Nations Secretary-General has called for urgent efforts to address the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and to protect populations at risk.
According to a statement issued by his spokesperson on Tuesday, Secretary-General António Guterres remained “seriously concerned” over the situation in the region, where hundreds of thousands of people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
Secretary-General @antonioguterres voices serious concern over situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray, reiterating the need for urgent steps to alleviate the humanitarian situation and extend the necessary protections to those at risk.https://t.co/2WZRQ6mV0d