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Malian singer Rokia Traore visited Goudoubo camp, Burkina Faso. The camp hosts some 10,000 Malian refugees who fled a conflict that erupted between a Tuareg rebel group and governmental troops.
American novelist Khaled Hosseini meets Yasser and is moved by the atrocities his young children have seen…
German-born British writer Judith Kerr tells her own refugee story; she escaped from Hitler’s Germany when she was a child…
Alek Wek fled her country when she was five; the Sudanese supermodel tells her story…
Film producer Eric Jankowsky met Olympic athlete Lopez Lomong, and is impressed by his incredible strength, resilience and true love for life.
British actress Romola Garai tells her great-grandfather’s story and she is proud to be a product both of his flight and of the society that nurtured him.
Best selling author and UNHCR High Profile Supporter, Neil Gaiman recently returned from Jordan seeing UNHCR’s frontline work for Syrian refugees…
George Butler, an artist and illustrator in current affairs, draws a Syrian refugee family leaving their country…
Barbara Hendricks, classical singer and UNHCR Honorary Lifetime Goodwill Ambassador, shares the story of her mentor, Jennie Tourel.
Architect Sir Richard Rogers shares the story of his own family’s displacement; It was World War II that caused his family to leave Italy…
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Liberata fled her village, and in the panic, was separated from her son. Henning Mankell visits them reunited…
Malian singer Rokia Traore visited Goudoubo camp, Burkina Faso. The camp hosts some 10,000 Malian refugees who fled a conflict that erupted between a Tuareg rebel group and governmental troops.
British novelist Marina Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany after World War II…
The odyssey of a Syrian young mother, fleeing with five underage children from war-torn Syria to Cyprus.
Afghan-born American author Khaled Hosseini is moved by families desperate to provide for themselves and not to be reliant…
Qadir, a returnee from Pakistan, owns a kebab shop thanks to UNHCR and can now support his wife, four children and disabled father…
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.
Supermodel Alek Wek meets refugee children and is reminded how important education is…
When I first came, I didn’t feel that afraid but the more I stay here, the more I fear.
I feel like sometimes I don’t belong because when I go for job interviews, they say “No, we only want locals.” I feel like sometimes as a refugee, I have no rights. Sometimes, the police stop will stop us randomly and look at our nail clipper and say “What are you doing with that?”
Rima was injured in Syria and had to undergo three surgeries at the age of 6, but her recovery has begun due to her resilient spirit.
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