Finnish ‘grandmother’ helps troubled toddler find peace
Azaldeen and his young daughter are starting over on a small island in south-west Finland, after family tragedy forced them to flee Baghdad.
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.
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. Basel Taleb, a refugee and electrical engineer built a tool to help himself – and other foreign engineers – to understand the Swedish energy sector.
‘Leaving no one behind’: Norway’s unearmarked core support to the UNHCR saves refugees
In 2016, Norway became the largest donor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) per capita, the seventh largest donor country to UNHCR in total and the fourth largest donor of unearmarked support.