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Human rights group: Let Caricom help Trinidad and Tobago with Venezuelan migrants

Human rights group: Let Caricom help Trinidad and Tobago with Venezuelan migrants Friday 18 December 2020 FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan migrants, including 16 children, make their way to shore at Los Iros Beach after entering TT waters illegally on board a pirogue on November 24. - Lincoln Holder THE Caribbean Centre for Human Rights (CCHR), in a Facebook statement on Friday, urged TT to ask its Caricom neighbours to help with the influx of Venezuelan migrants. The CCHR said despite the economic crisis due to covid19, TT still has a duty to protect human rights as set out in the TT Constitution and laws, plus its obligations as a member of the Organisation of American States (OAS.)

Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela: Policies from both governments put lives at risk

By 16 December 2020, 16:11 UTC As initial information emerges of a new shipwreck on Venezuela’s coast, Louise Tillotson, Caribbean Researcher at Amnesty International, writes about governments’ obligations to provide international protection for refugees. It’s February 2020 and on the Savannah, in Port of Spain, Trinidad a coconut vendor talks about “the virus” emerging in China. He’s worried that the island’s world-famous carnival is just around the corner and that cases will be imported. Trinidad and Tobago is one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse countries in the Caribbean and as such, the vendor was worried that the country’s diaspora, coming from as far as China to closer-by Canada, bulges the population of the island during each carnival. Trinidadians, like most Caribbean people, know migration is part of life.

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