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acnur.org.br
December 2020
Newsletter
©ACNUR/Sebastian Roa
UNHCR celebrates 70 years of
humanitarian action
On 14 December, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) stateless persons. According to data from the Brazilian government,
celebrated 70 years of work. Created in 1950 with 34 the country has about 50,000 people recognized as refugees,
employees and tasked with solving the problems of originating in 55 different countries.
European refugees victims of World War II, UNHCR
was supposed to exist for only three years, but UNHCR’s 70th anniversary activities will continue in 2021 and
eventually became one of the largest humanitarian feature the launch of videos, podcasts and electronic publications,
agencies in the world, currently present in 135 virtual and face-to-face exhibitions, social media campaigns and the
countries and with more than 17,000 employees. involvement of its high-profile supporters.
“Since its creation, UNHCR’s mission has been To track related products to UNHCR’s 70th anniversary, go
to protect people forced to flee because of wars, www.acnur.org.br/70anos
conflicts and human rights violations, providing
humanitarian assistance and lasting solutions to
millions of people around the world,”, said Jose
Egas, UNHCR Representative in Brazil.
Currently, almost 80 million people are refugees,
internally displaced or stateless – or 1 out of every
100 people. This number has doubled over the last
decade. UNHCR won twice the Nobel Peace Prize
for its humanitarian work – in 1954 and 1981. Its work
has never been more urgent and necessary. Extreme
poverty, climate change and its interrelationship with
wars and urban violence are changing displacement
patterns, making agency operations more complex.
Present in Brazil since 1982, UNHCR has since been
working in partnership with the federal government
and other instances of public power, civil society
institutions, academia and the private sector to
support the national response to refugees and Read more at: https://bit.ly/3bLxWwL
Empowering Refugee Women concludes 2020 with 59 women graduates
and 79 people relocated
In December, twenty-nine women living in shelters in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima,
graduated from the Empoderando Refugiadas project. In addition to promoting the training of
professionals, the project also seeks to support women to gain employment with private sector
companies through the employment-based modality of the internal relocation programme,
creating sustainable solutions for the women and their families. In 2020, a total of 59 women
graduated in Boa Vista. Of these, 32% are already employed and were relocated to the states of
Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina and São Paulo.
The last class - the fifth edition of the project - included women with disabilities, chronic
©ACNUR diseases, trans women, elderly women and mothers of children with disabilities. The
Allana Ferreira
Empowering Refugee Women project is carried out by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR),
Read more at https://bit.ly/38QlCYW The Brazilian Network of the Global Compact and UN Women.
Watch the graduation in www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8-95vk0EWI
Project that boosts Warao craft is expanded
Finding professional opportunities is challenging in the context of forced displacement, but
for indigenous people, the situation is even more difficult.
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Since 2019, UNHCR and Casa Museu do Objeto Brasileiro, in coordination with the Allana Ferreira
Fraternity – International Humanitarian Federation (FFHI), have developed initiatives to pro-
Read more at https://bit.ly/3aUOces
mote income generation for indigenous refugees, asylum seekers and migrants through the
production and commercialization of Warao handicrafts.
In 2020, steps such as financing, community awareness, mobilization and organization of indigenous leaders as well as the creation
of craft associations were carried out. All this was made possible by resources given by the Government of Luxembourg through LEAP
(Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection), a project aimed at refugee women, asylum seekers and migrants and implemented
by UNHCR with UN Women and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Indigenous refugees receive UNHCR distributes Santos
UNHCR boats in Pará Footbol Club uniforms to
Venezuelan children in Boa Vista
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Allana Ferreira
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Victoria Hugueney
On 22 December, boys and girls from the temporary shelters
On 9 December, UNHCR delivered two boats and fishing items Rondon 1 and Pintolândia, in Boa Vista, capital of Roraima, recei-
to the warao indigenous community in refugee situation living in ved part of the 100 youth uniforms of Santos FC. In addition to
curuçambá, on the banks of the Maguari River in the municipality t-shirts and shorts, balls were also distributed to be used in the
of Ananindeua, in the metropolitan region of Belém. sports classes of the shelters. The action is part of a partnership
between Santos FC and UNHCR, as a way of ensuring the partici-
At the request of the community, the two boats were produced pation of refugee youth in social activities in shelters that host the
by local Brazilian fishermen as part of a community strategy for Venezuelan population, establishing spaces for peaceful coexis-
food security and income generation. tence through sports.
Read more at https://bit.ly/3nTHwjR Read more at https://bit.ly/3aUa5uD
Virtual tour celebrates 70 UNHCR launches free e-book with recipes
years of UNHCR: from refugees
On 14 December, to mark its 70th anni-
versary, UNHCR launched a free e-book
containing recipes prepared by refugees
from Colombia, Syria and Venezuela.
In all, there are seven recipes of dishes
originating in these countries, sweet and
savory, such as arepas and patacones,
typical Colombian dishes.
In 2020, several field missions and other face- Cooking has been one of the pillars of labour market integration for the refugee
to-face events were cancelled due to COVID-19. In population, and the launch of the virtual book was a tribute to the resilience of
order to adapt to this new reality, UNHCR relea- these people who are rebuilding their lives in Brazil. The initiative was dissemi-
sed a video to bring the public closer to the work nated by several media outlets, celebrities and digital influencers such as Letícia
done in the field. Embark with us on a virtual tour Spiller, Cláudia Leitte and Quebrando Tabu.
of UNHCR supported shelters in Brazil at
https://youtu.be/GiKcYSSeDTg The e-book is available for free at www.pratodomundo.com
H I G H L I G H T S
Everything UNHCR did in 2020 with your support: Dashboard on integration and interiorization of Venezuelans in Brazil is launched:
UNHCR has been working to protect displaced persons for 70 years. Nevertheless, Interiorization, the third pillar of the Federal Government’s response to the Venezela flow, now has an
the emergence of the pandemic was different from anything already experienced. interactive tool that presents the strategy data. Since 2018, more than 45,000 Venezuelans have been
Coronavirus does not discriminate, but disproportionately affects the world’s most internally relocated from Roraima to more than 600 municipalities and this information can be filtered,
vulnerable people: those forced to flee their homes and who do not have the historically, geographically and by profile, providing information on which municipalities and states received
possibility to protect themselves and their families through social distancing or access refugees and migrants, their age, work experience, educational and specific protection needs. This
to clean drinking water and soap like us. In 2020, despite all the difficulties, we moved information enables greater knowledge and agility for the local integration of this population in coordination
on and worked a lot. And in 2021, we will continue to do so – with the support of with the local government. The dashboard is a joint initiative between the Ministry of Citizenship, which
committed donors like you. coordinates the Federal Subcommittee on Interiorization, and the UN agencies UNHCR and IOM.
Read more at https://bit.ly/38LSnXh Access the dashboard in
Read more at https://bit.ly/3oW5Tyt
http://aplicacoes.mds.gov.br/snas/painel-interiorizacao/
Refugees produce and distribute food for vulnerable populations: Reports from CNN Brazil and G1 win the International Committee of the Red Cross
With the support of UNHCR, the NGO and partner I know My Rights (IKMR) distributed Humanitarian Coverage Award 2020:
On 8 December two reports were awarded in the fourth edition of the ICRC Humanitarian Coverage Award –
more than 40,000 meals for Brazilians, refugees and migrants living in the cities of
UNHCR gave a special award on the coverage of the refugee theme, in the 70th anniversary of the agency,
Campinas and São Paulo between April and December 2020. The action sought
where the report “I left to save my life”, from the G1 portal, was the winner. As a prize, the team will travel to
to encourage the purchase of food produced by 21 refugees who are chefs while
learn about UNHCR’s operations in the north of the country.
ensuring food security - one of the most basic needs of refugees and people in
vulnerable situations – which worsened during the pandemic.
Read more at https://bit.ly/3rChODo
Read more at https://bit.ly/3qnDX77
5 JANUARY Tightly earmarked
UNHCR Brazil 2020 Earmarked
Funding Update
Softly earmarked (indicative allocation)
62% Unearmarked (indicative allocation)
funded2 Funding gap (indicative)
$46.6 million For more information: reporting.unhcr.org
UNHCR's financial requirements 20201
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