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Carina escaped Vietnam on a wooden boat with her two siblings and 370 other people. She endured violent storms, pirate raids,….
We tried to flee to Jordan but were denied entry as the border was and continues to be closed to Palestinians from Syria. Instead we managed to find refuge in Lebanon…
Some live now free all over the world. Some are still missing. Never forgotten.
In the 90s, many of my relatives, even kids, had to flee their homes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Serbia, Croatia, some to not be forcibly recruited, some to escape their yesterday’s brothers, become their latest enemy – some “just” to stay alive. Some live now free all over the world. Some are still missing. Never […]
I fought against the oppression of women, the injustice, the violence and the excessive use of force by the new regime. Then, my husband and I were arrested and imprisoned…
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 […]
James Prince Koroma is a former refugee from Sierra Leone in West Africa. After being resettled to Australia, James has wanted to give back – so now works with Australia for UNHCR to raise much needed funding to support refugees.
By the time he was found in a jungle in southern Thailand, this teenager was so weak he couldn’t even wave away the flies and mosquitoes that covered his body.
Soldiers used him as a human shield as they went from door to door in his apartment building, looking for opposition fighters…
Although I was once upon the time a despairing refugee, but through UNHCR's support I am now an asset to my country's post-conflict recovery.
It was in 1994 in the provincial town of Yomou, Guinea. After few months of seeking refuge in one of the largest Liberian Refugee Camps, my father was picked up by security forces and incarcerated …
“And my answer is usually: I am Mutasim Ali, I am 27 years old, I am a refugee from Darfur, Sudan, and live in the desert of Negev, in a detention center called Holot.”
As a child, my grandmother arrived from Belarus to Ellis Island with her sister and parents, around 1910.
Her sister though had red eye, conjunctivitis, which though not serious was highly contagious and on the list of diseases that excluded one from entering the U.S. (as did syphilis and TB).
It is difficult to express all the losses that refugee children can suffer.
During the realm of my social work career I worked in a Refugee camp and one fo my career highlights was meeting and working with one amazing boy with speech disability. Tyrell Good (not his real name) is a 7 year old boy from Democratic Republic of Congo.
On the 15th March it started, I wasn't exposed a lot at the beginning of the Syrian revolution but started to see all the blood, buildings and homes being destroyed and the amount of people dying. It was challenging as we lost our business and almost everything we had because of the dictator who refused to do what the people wanted.
“Through the hard times, the only thing that kept me going is the support from God spiritually and the care and love I got from the people I met. And so my journey continues…”
Join UNHCR, Actress Kat Graham and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for a special musical performance in recognition of World Refugee Day.
“I’ve been offered asylum in several countries but I won’t go. Colombia is my home. I’ve given my life to defending our rights and fighting against inequality. I’ve made a moral and ethical commitment to my country,” Palencia said.
Juliana was born in the Dominican Republic. But she can’t vote, get married, travel abroad, get a formal job, open a bank account…
My husband never took the status of refugee himself, but in Belgium he helped many Chilean refugees
I am Belgian. I met my future husband in 1975 at the Louvain University. He had to leave Chile because he was not allowed to continue his studies at the university in his country. He was a political activist in favour of Allende.
As the Soviet forces were occupying Estonia at the end of the Second World War, my grandmother realized that there was no future for her and her family…
“What I’d like most is an ID with my picture on it. I’ve never had one before,” he says. “I would work hard and go and find my daughter.”
“One day, a mortar shell hit my son’s school. I was so terrified that I didn’t let him go anymore…
We are a group of journalists and news producers and we first met Tameru Zegeye in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. …
“Being stateless is like being an alien. Anywhere you place me… everyone will still say, ‘You are not from here’.
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