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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…
Stephen Kelly, a photojournalist was given the assignment to photograph each family holding the most important item they were able to carry with them when they fled their homes.
“We lost many things including our home but I haven’t lost my dream to go back to school to be what I want to be.”
"We were a respected family that had built a good life in Sarajevo. We had a house and an apartment in Sarajevo. But war is indiscriminate and we lost it all."
Radonja went from being a governmental official to cigarette seller in a matter of days; yet she perseveres and is determined to rebuild her shattered life…
‘As I watch, figures appear out of the darkness, bent double under sacks… moving past us like heavy ghosts”. AA Gill goes among the Syrian refugees in Jordan’s Zaatari Camp.
My life totally changed when I went to Malaysia. I now finally own my freedom. I have received proper treatment.
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 […]
Until my trip to Haiti two years ago, I had yet to encounter some of the most heart-wrenching realities faced by millions of displaced women and mothers around the world.
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