Hispanic World
US deportations raise serious human rights concerns
The UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk has voiced concern over the recent deportation of large numbers of non-nationals from the United States, particularly...
UN migration agency helping migrants in the US return home voluntarily
The United States has asked the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to assist undocumented migrants who choose to return to their home countries.
Costa Rica’s refugee lifeline at breaking point amid funding crisis
Costa Rica’s long-standing commitment to protecting refugees is under threat as severe funding cuts cripple support for surging numbers of Nicaraguan asylum seekers, the UN...
Haiti: Displaced families grapple with death ‘from the inside’ and out
Shattered by her husband’s death during the rising tide of gang violence in Haiti last year, Christiana and her six children fled 223 kilometres from...
Business
UN warns copper shortage risks slowing global energy and technology shift
A looming global copper shortage could stall the world’s transition to clean energy and digital technologies unless smarter trade and investment strategies are adopted, the...
