Refugee camps present specific challenges for implementing an effective coronavirus response.
Devex: Here’s what the COVID-19 response looks like in refugee camps
Aid groups around the world are taking steps to prepare refugee camps for a potential Covid-19 outbreak as best they can.
PRI’s The World: Families in limbo as refugee resettlement is suspended due to COVID-19
With little access to water and other basic services, advocates warn refugee camps could soon be hot spots for COVID-19.
CNN: If coronavirus spreads to this population, it could be catastrophic
Displaced people need readily available and affordable Covid-19 testing and functional quarantine facilities where they live.
PRI’s The World: As Turkey opens border, conditions for migrants in Europe are ‘unacceptable’
Devon Cone spoke with The World’s Marco Werman about migrants’ dangerous sea crossings in the Mediterranean.
PRI’s The World: Turkey’s Refugee Resettlement
Hardin Lang discusses Turkey’s plans to resettle a million Syrian refugees to the Kurdish area on the northern border with Syria.
Univision: Yael Schacher on the Safe Third Country Agreement with Guatemala
Yael Schacher explains the issues of a safe third country agreement with Guatemala in a TV interview with Univision.
Al Jazeera English: Yael Schacher on U.S. Refugee Cap
Yael Schacher discusses the historic low U.S. refugee admissions cap on Al Jazeera English.
PBS NewsHour: Facing Myanmar’s Brutal Persecution, Rohingya Refugees Still Can’t Return Home
PBS NewsHours’ Amna Nawaz talks to Refugees International’s Dan Sullivan about the hostile conditions in Myanmar preventing Rohingya from returning home.
All Things Considered: UN Human Rights Probe; Top Myanmar Generals Should Face Genocide Charges
A United Nations-mandated Fact-Finding Mission issued a scathing report documenting Myanmar security forces’ violence against the country’s ethnic Rohingya Muslim population last year.