RAND: How to Help Refugees and Host Countries Combat COVID-19
May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
SANTA MONICA, California, May 18 -- RAND issued the following commentary by Senior Policy Researcher Shelly Culbertson:
At a time when the pandemic is forcing people to stay at home and practice social-distancing, that is not possible for one of the most vulnerable populations--the world's seventy-one million refugees, internally displaced persons, and asylum seekers (https://www.unhcr.org/5d08d7ee7.pdf). Having escaped conflict and persecution, they now risk illness and death . . .
At a time when the pandemic is forcing people to stay at home and practice social-distancing, that is not possible for one of the most vulnerable populations--the world's seventy-one million refugees, internally displaced persons, and asylum seekers (https://www.unhcr.org/5d08d7ee7.pdf). Having escaped conflict and persecution, they now risk illness and death . . .