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"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.
If I were to choose one thing, it was when we went to the health centre in Rwamwanja settlement…
Liberata fled her village, and in the panic, was separated from her son. Henning Mankell visits them reunited…
Supermodel Alek Wek meets refugee children and is reminded how important education is…
Photojournalist Andrew McConnell meets Minatu Lanadas Suidat, a young journalist who was born in a refugee camp…
Naima’s uncle was murdered in Ethiopia, her parents fled to Kenya as political refugees…
American author Khaled Hosseini meets Nalene, a young woman supporting her family working in a beauty salon in the refugee camp…
Mukamugema Rahabu thought she lost her daughter and grandchild, but they were eventually reunited…
Maymoona started growing a botanical garden after receiving training from an agricultural engineer in the Sahrawi refugee camp…
“I will think about my options, but I’m certainly not going at sea again. I left for the future of my kids; I’m not going to die with them in the sea. Life is not over.”
This is the story of Dala Banu, a Rohingya refugee from Burma, now at a camp in Bangladesh During the interview, Dala stays silent. Her husband…
"Now I remember again our house burned and destroyed, And the corpse laid on the ground, And planes flying over our houses, And they bombed civilians and innocent people...Our pains our too many, our wounds are too deep."
Ronida, a Syrian refugee, wrote poems to share with Khaled Hosseini, a fellow writer.
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.
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