Country: World Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees An estimated 1.44 million refugees are in urgent need of resettlement globally, but only 22,770 were resettled through UNHCR – the lowest numbers the agency has witnessed in almost two decades.

Country: Mozambique Source: United Nations Population Fund The cyclone threatens to worsen an already dire situation in the region, one of the areas that suffered from the impacts of Cyclone Idai in March 2019, which affected an estimated 1.85 million people.

It’s true that tourism and global travel have been painfully curtailed by the unabated COVID-19 pandemic, and that means fewer photos of “adventurous” humans showing off selfies taken with monkeys and other primates – animals that may be highly at-risk for contracting the coronavirus too. But other concerns over how […]

Countries: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua Source: UN Children’s Fund Las áreas golpeadas por los huracanes también son las afectadas por algunos de los niveles más altos de violencia y pobreza en el mundo incluso antes de la pandemia.