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@Refugees

The official account of , the United Nations Refugee Agency. Providing life-saving aid and protection to + the forcibly displaced.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 20

    ⬇️Spot the refugee ⬇️ 🧑🏾👶🏻👧🏿👩🏼🧓🏾👧🏻🧒🏽👨🏻👨🏾🧓🏽👴🏻👶🏿🧔🏿👨🏽 👩🏻🧑🏻👶🏽👵🏽👦🏼🧔🏻👩🏿👱🏼‍♀️👵🏼👶🏽🧒🏽👦🏾🧔🏼👴🏼 👧🏽👩🏾👵🏻👶🏾👱🏼‍♂️👦🏽👩🏻🧒🏾🧔🏽👱🏾‍♀️👨🏿🧒🏻🧓🏻🧑🏽 You see? They're just like you and me.

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  2. 35 minutes ago

    “This is a safe place for me. But I would still like to work and help my mother and brothers in Darfur,” - hears the hopes of refugees in Niger

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  3. 1 hour ago

    220 people have drown off Libya in recent days. These latest fatalities have pushed the death toll in the Central Mediterranean route to over 1,000 in 2018.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    16.2 million people were driven from their homes in 2017. 44,400 each day. 🗓️ 1 every 2 seconds. ⏱️

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  5. 3 hours ago

    Football/Soccer coach ⚽ Elementary school principal 👨🏿‍🏫 Family man 👨🏿‍👨🏿‍👶🏿‍👧🏿 Refugee Spend a day with Bertine in Gillette, Wyoming 🇺🇸 -

    2 replies 11 retweets 28 likes
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  6. 3 hours ago

    Do refugees live in refugee camps? Most don't. 58% actually live in cities. 🏙️ Understand the facts:

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  7. Retweeted
    3 hours ago

    A refugee child evacuated from Libya to Niger made this drawing. He could have been among the 220 people who drowned in the Mediterranean today. Let’s give more children safe pathways out of despair.

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  8. 5 hours ago

    The world’s refugees need all the help they can get. Here are seven ways that businesses can support them. By via :

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  9. 5 hours ago

    In 🇹🇿 they beat drums. In 🇺🇦 they laughed. In 🇧🇩 they painted. In 🇺🇬 they danced. In 🇮🇳 they posed. In 🇸🇳 they slammed. In 🇳🇬 they sang. In 🇺🇸 they displayed. Around the 🌏🌍🌎 we came together.

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  10. 5 hours ago

    Marking ! 🇵🇦 Talented refugee chefs take part in the festival, Panama 🇳🇬 Our standing 🇬🇷 A on Kos, between refugees & a local club 🇹🇷 Refugee & Turkish musicians solidarity concert in Istanbul

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  11. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    Agadez, Niger - meets with young people from Sudan who say they are seeking safety, education & solutions

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  12. 6 hours ago

    celebrations! 🇸🇴 Somalia's refugee & host community soccer 🇪🇬 Egypt - "Don't let anything stand in your way, life is ahead of you" - Hala & her art work 🇷🇸 Serbia - standing ! 🇮🇪 Ireland - refugee chefs cook up a storm!

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  13. 7 hours ago

    Our Goodwill Ambassador writes eloquently about why it’s a matter not only of common sense, but of common decency, to help refugees.

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  14. 8 hours ago

    “I know there is no way to take away the pain and all that you’ve lost.” UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meets displaced families in West Mosul, Iraq, as they return to the devastated city after its liberation from ISIS last summer:

    6 replies 87 retweets 158 likes
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  15. 8 hours ago

    Based on aerial mapping, we estimate that up to 200,000 refugees in Bangladesh could be at risk of landslides and floods and still need to be moved to safer areas

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  16. 8 hours ago

    We stand . On please stand with us.

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  17. 9 hours ago

    celebrations! 🇨🇲 Handicrafts & for Nigerian refugees & Cameroon hosts 🇨🇷 A refugee entrepreneur exhibition in 🇧🇷 Standing in Brazil 🇪🇸 deliciousness in Madrid, Spain! (Pic: Jane Mitchell)

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  18. 9 hours ago

    Do you have a fresh idea, new approach or project that will improve the way we help and protect refugees and others who have been forced to flee? Apply for a UNHCR NGO Innovation Award:

    2 replies 37 retweets 45 likes
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  19. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Very saddened by the news of 120 persons drowning at sea off the coast of over the past 2 days. Calling for legal pathways to provide alternatives to these dangerous crossings for persons in need of international protection in Libya

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  20. 10 hours ago

    From Romania to Australia to Uganda, see how we celebrated World around the 🌎 globe:

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  21. 11 hours ago

    Farmer 🍌 Interpreter 👄 Businessman 💼 Teacher 👨🏿‍🏫 Refugee Spend a day with Jacob in Ghana. 🇬🇭 -

    3 replies 32 retweets 98 likes
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