Refugee camps contain the hidden victims of Covid-19
December 31, 2020 at 10:00 am With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in late 2019, interest in the plight of the world's most vulnerable populations, refugees, began to wane. A year later, and it is as if the refugee crisis has disappeared completely. It hasn't, though. In fact, the world's erstwhile leading humanitarian crisis has deteriorated substantially, despite it not being a recurring news item. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as of June 2020 there were 26 million refugees worldwide. Victims of war, poverty and international neglect prior to the spread of...
Source: middleeastmonitor.com