After a Nicaraguan human rights activist who had fled to Costa Rica was killed, concern has grown that the Ortega government ...

The decision by the Homeland Security Department to end protections for migrants from those countries goes into effect in ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 5 (UNHCR) - Nicaraguan parliamentarians have unanimously passed legislation to protect refugees, after four years of lobbying and close collaboration between the UN refugee ...

SOS Nicaragua is raising money and coordinating efforts to get food, hygiene kits, and fabric masks to refugees living in crowded neighborhoods and homes, a condition Huezo described as ...

The initiative will allow eligible migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who are living in Mexico to come to the U.S. with refugee status, which puts them on a path to permanent ...

UPALA, Costa Rica — In Costa Rica’s rural north, several hundred Nicaraguan refugees are carving out an existence with machetes and a firm belief that they could be jailed or killed if they ...

The latest escalation of Ortega's systematic dismantling of his country's human rights came on June 12, when Nicaragua cut ties with the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

Her wounds festering, and unable to afford a doctor in Costa Rica, she went without treatment for several months – running the risk of becoming permanently disabled. Then she heard of an initiative by ...

Nearly 250,000 Nicaraguans have fled and have sought refugee protection in Costa Rica, said Juan Carlos Arce, a Nicaraguan human rights lawyer. Now, Vargas finds herself rethinking all of the ...