Uprooted 70 million at risk in virus spread

The coronavirus pandemic threatens to disproportionately harm more than 70 million people who have been forcibly displaced by wars and violent crises.

By Arete News - March 30, 2020

Two young girls at a refugee camp in Iraq (AN/E.U. DG ECHO)

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