translated from Spanish: UNICEF: more than 1 million Venezuelan children will need help for mass exodus

UNICEF estimates that 1.1 million Venezuelan children need both protection and access to basic services in 2019 in Latin America and the Caribbean due to the immigration crisis in Venezuela, the uprooted from the country, those who return and q EU are located in host and transit.
According to Unicef data, already around 500,000 refugees Venezuelan children need assistance now, so make a call to the Governments of the region so that they defend their rights.
Xenophobia, discrimination and violence against migrant children Venezuelan estimation of Unicef, the international UN children’s Emergency Fund, comes in moments in which expected a worsening of the political crisis in Venezuela, which It would have repercussions on the situation of children and their families.
Concerned about reports of xenophobia, discrimination and violence perpetrated against Venezuelan migrant children and families in host countries and transit, Unicef urged them to protect them.
Registration of migrant children is the first step to guarantee their rights, according to Unicef.
UNICEF also requested $ 69.5 million to meet the needs of displaced children in Venezuela, and for those who are living in countries of transit or host through Latin America and the Caribbean.
An internal UN report which agreed the news agency AFP last week assures that seven million people – 25 per cent of the population-accurate humanitarian aid because they have no access to food and medicine.
The report notes that at least 22 per cent of children under five suffer from chronic malnutrition in Venezuela.
Some 5,000 people leave the country every day, and 10 percent of the population (more than 3.4 million people) lives now as migrants or refugees in neighbouring countries, according to the U.N. report, which also warned that if the flow continues at this rate the figure to Perhaps it will exceed 5 million by the end of this year.
The worst crisis in the modern history of the region on Thursday, the World Bank said in its latest six-monthly report on Latin America and the Caribbean that Venezuela lives “the worst crisis in the modern history of the region”.
“Nothing could prepare the region for the escalation of the economic, social and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, far the worst crisis in the modern history of the region”, said experts of the organism in its analysis.
The World Bank also said that it is likely that the real GDP of the country “drop 25 percent in 2019, which would mean a cumulative drop of 60 per cent of GDP from 2013”.
The Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, blames the economic meltdown on sanctions imposed by the United States, but opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who proclaimed himself interim President, says it is due to corruption and misrule. Guided is recognized as President by the United States and nearly 60 countries.

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