UNHCR scales up response in Venezuela amid growing post-earthquake vulnerabilities
UNHCR scales up response in Venezuela amid growing post-earthquake vulnerabilities
UNHCR helps to save lives and build better futures for the millions of people forced to flee their homes.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home.
Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.
We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.
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The response continues.
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New humanitarian supplies are already arriving in Venezuela to strengthen assistance to families affected by the earthquakes.
We continue to work alongside partner organizations and authorities, guided by humanitarian principles, to ensure that aid… pic.twitter.com/KSjAGbRRLJ
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Venezuela emergency
A powerful earthquake has struck Venezuela — a country already living through one of the world's largest displacement crises.
This disaster hits a population already stretched to a breaking point. Almost 7 million Venezuelans have fled in recent years. Now, for those who remain, a fragile situation has become an emergency — with urgent need for shelter, clean water and protection.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, leads the protection response in Venezuela. Our teams are on the ground delivering shelter and relief to those hit hardest.
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