Women "run for their lives" from Central America gang violence - U.N.
Women "run for their lives" from Central America gang violence - U.N.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:00 GMT
Author: Anastasia Moloney
BOGOTA, Oct 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of women flee their homes in parts of Central America and Mexico each year to escape armed gangs and domestic violence and seek refuge in the United States, a flow that is becoming a refugee crisis, the U.N. refugee agency says.
The number of women, some with children, fleeing rampant gang violence in parts of Mexico, and the Northern Triangle region of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, is rising, the UNHCR said in a report published on Wednesday.
More than 66,000 children travelled with their families or alone from the Northern Triangle region - which has the world's highest murder rates - to the United States in 2014.
More unaccompanied children from the Northern Triangle and Mexico reached the United States in August than in the same month last year, the U.S. government said.
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