UNHCR calls for the EU relocation scheme to continue
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has urged EU Member States to promptly relocate all asylum-seekers eligible under the EU’s emergency relocation scheme and for it to continue beyond the two years originally planned.
UNHCR report highlights education crisis for refugee children
More than 3.5 million refugee children aged 5 to 17 did not have the chance to attend school in the last academic year, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says in a report released today.
Journeys to Europe more diverse, but all high risk for refugees and migrants
Latest data on refugees and migrants entering and crossing Europe via the Mediterranean and Western Balkans routes.
Architects and asylum-seekers create a hub of inclusion in Norway
In Norway, a group of architects don’t take refugees’ preferences for granted – they ask.
Volunteers give refugees a taste of life in Lithuania
Aktyvus jaunimas (Active Youth), a youth group based in Vilnius, is trying to give newly arrived refugees a taste of their new home at the reception centre in Rukla, near Kaunas, Lithuania‘s second largest city. This group is one of many in Lithuania, working...
Health, distraction and integration – the story of how Sayed ran a marathon
For asylum-seekers waiting to have their application processed, time can go by very slowly. One solution is to start running – far. Sayed from Afghanistan has become a regular sight as he runs along the town roads on Sweden’s High Coast – and now he has completed a marathon in solidarity with the world’s refugees.
Taking the plunge: Swimming lessons help integration in Norway
Somali refugee Abdullahi Yusuf Jibril helps others to take the plunge.
Openness. Humanity. Security: World Refugee Day 2017 in Riga
World Refugee in Riga: stories, virtual excursions and delicious Middle Eastern food.
Saving lives and welcoming refugees, a responsibility of everyone
World Refugee Day is also a good time for everyone to contemplate what each of us can do to overcome indifference or fear and embrace the idea of inclusion, and welcome refugees into our own communities.
Refugee Children Play Music for Integration
As a prelude to World Refugee Day in Sweden, UNHCR organized a pop-up philharmonic concert for passers-by in central Stockholm. The concert was performed by child refugees and asylum-seekers from El Sistema Sweden Dream Orchestra.
War, violence, persecution push displacement to new unprecedented high
UNHCR’s new Global Trends report says that at the end of 2016 there were 65.6 million people forcibly displaced worldwide.
How do you say servo-valve in Swedish? Basel’s phrasebook helps refugee engineers
Conductivity, servo-valves and stator cores – even if you are fluent in a language you might not know these words. This was the challenge for Basel Taleb, a refugee and electrical engineer who learnt Swedish in a couple of months – yet couldn’t grasp the technical jargon at his new workplace. So he built a tool to help himself – and other foreign engineers – to understand the Swedish energy sector.