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Caribbean & Central America - July 2016 (ISSN 1741-4458)
Seeking to address the Northern Triangle refugee situation
On 6 and 7 July in San José, Costa Rica, a High-Level Roundtable was held to address the refugee situation in Central America’s ‘Northern Triangle’ (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras). Co-chaired by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Organization of American States (OAS), the Roundtable was attended by delegations from 11 Latin American countries, the US, international organisations, and civil-society. It was the first international event to focus on the rising numbers of people displaced from the Northern Triangle due to poverty, unemployment, lack of education and violence – numbers that have reached unseen levels since the sub-region’s civil wars of the 1980s. Last year there were 109,800 such refugees and asylum seekers from the Northern Triangle, a five-fold increase. Most were seeking to reach Mexico and the US but some also had Belize, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama as their final destinations.
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