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Brazil and the spirit of Cartagena

The Cartagena Declaration on Refugees (1984) was the outcome of meetings between government representatives and specialists from ten Latin American countries who met in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, to consider the situation of refugees in Central America. It established the…

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Local integration of refugees in Brazil

In October of 2009 there were 4,131 refugees from 72 nationalities living in Brazil. Of these, 3,822 arrived ‘spontaneously’, of whom nearly half came through their own networks, and 418 were resettled through the Brazilian programme, coordinated by the National…

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Preventing displacement

The figures speak for themselves. As of December 2011, more than 26 million people were internally displaced, forced from their homes by armed conflict and insecurity, while millions more had sought refuge abroad. In addition, an estimated 15 million people…

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