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Photojournalist Alex Kühni met two Syrian refugees in Lebanon and was impressed by their unwavering hope that they would find a better life someday.
Ana met Sister Angélique Namaika at the Nansen Refugee Award ceremony 2013 and she was touched by her strength and glowing smile…
“When I first heard about Russian tanks in Prague, I could not believe my ears. It was 1968 and we were on a vacation in Switzerland"
Miroslav’s whole life turned upside down when he and his family couldn’t return to Prague as the Soviet invasion began.
I was young and impressionable and her horror and sadness became etched into my memory.
I had just started working for Refugees International when I was sent out on mission to Bosnia. The war was raging and I was new to humanitarian work and stunned when I arrived by NATO helicopter into Sarajevo. A day later, the first reports were coming out of Srebrenica.
German-born British writer Judith Kerr tells her own refugee story; she escaped from Hitler’s Germany when she was a child…
"When I was 17 or 18 years old I met some refugees from South Africa who had fled apartheid, and I realized that no one flees without very strong cause."
Henning Mankell visited a refugee settlement and a transit centre in Uganda, neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Naima’s uncle was murdered in Ethiopia, her parents fled to Kenya as political refugees…
In Azerbaijan Vusal was a journalist, he wrote articles about the violation of human rights in his country. After his activities were spotted by the government, he had to flee.
Formerly known as Mr Dahir Hussein Maalim, now living in Hobart Australia. I grew up in a small village in Ethiopia, called Madawalabu. My family were farmers, growing crops such as maize, wheat, and sorghum and keeping animals for meat and milk. We also had camels for transport, as well as for food purposes. Last […]
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