FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured on a banner at the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland June 13, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations migration and refugee agencies on Monday denounced physical and verbal attacks against Venezuelans in the region and urged Latin American leaders to condemn xenophobia and show solidarity.
"Although isolated and unrepresentative, these acts of hatred, intolerance and xenophobia are extremely worrying," the International Organization of Migration and U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said in a statement. It came a week after an Ecuadoran woman was murdered by a Venezuelan man in the northern Ecuadoran city of Ibarra, triggering acts of violence.
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