Stories

Voices in exile: refugee journalists retrain in UK

The Refugee Journalism Project supports exiled journalists to tell the refugee story first-hand in the British media

10 Feb 2017

Syrian refugees breathe new life into shrinking German village

When school sizes began to shrink in the tiny village of Golzow, Syrian refugees saved it from decline.

9 Feb 2017

Top UK university offers scholarships for refugees

London's School of Oriental and African Studies among 40 UK universities supporting people forced to flee their homes

3 Feb 2017

Timisoara's multicultural party has a serious purpose

City's residents host gathering for refugees trying to make a success of their new lives in Romania

3 Feb 2017

Refugees brave Serbia's cold in hope of better future

Serbian authorities and UNHCR step up efforts to persuade children to move out of cold warehouses into government-run emergency shelters.

2 Feb 2017

Drama helps Burundian refugee cope with challenges

Starting over in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Burundian mother draws strength from her roles with an amateur theatre group.

27 Jan 2017

Daughter of Second World War refugees opens her London home to asylum-seekers

Kathy Galashan's Jewish parents came to London from Austria in 1938. Now the retired school teacher is opening her home to refugees.

27 Jan 2017

Former refugees welcome Vienna visitors at unique hotel

The Magdas offers "globetrotters, revellers, explorers and discoverers" a modern, multicultural experience in the Austrian capital.

26 Jan 2017

How a teen refugee survived a shipwreck and saved a baby's life

UNHCR's Melissa Fleming launched "A Hope More Powerful than the Sea", her book chronicling the extraordinary bravery of Syrian refugee Doaa Al Zamel.

25 Jan 2017