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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.

    450 replies 3,125 retweets 5,717 likes
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  2. 8 minutes ago

    🕺🏽Dance 🎭Drama 🎶Music Help refugees recover from trauma, gain confidence, and smile again

    1 reply 16 retweets 27 likes
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  3. 32 minutes ago

    "We’re older than our years, we have become adults. We grew up a lot in this journey." Liaqat and Rahila & their family fled Pakistan in 2015, to avoid militia threats from a group that targets Hazaras.

    1 reply 28 retweets 26 likes
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  4. 2 hours ago

    Human rights are relevant for all of us, every day.

    10 replies 81 retweets 150 likes
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  5. 3 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:

    8 replies 90 retweets 144 likes
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  6. 3 hours ago

    Shukria arrived in England with little grasp of English. She is now an award-winning poet 🙌

    1 reply 24 retweets 85 likes
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  7. 5 hours ago

    When humanity’s values are abandoned, we all are at greater risk. We need to stand up for our rights and those of others.

    5 replies 106 retweets 133 likes
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  8. 6 hours ago

    DR Congo 🇨🇩 South Sudan 🇸🇸 Myanmar 🇲🇲 Crisis, war, & persecution in these countries led the way to a new high for forced displacement in 2017.

    2 replies 32 retweets 41 likes
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  9. 8 hours ago

    “No one becomes a refugee by choice” ~

    3 replies 104 retweets 179 likes
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  10. 9 hours ago

    2013 📈 2014 📈 2015 📈 2016 📈 2017 📈 For the 5th year in a row, forced displacement reached a new high.

    1 reply 49 retweets 50 likes
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  11. 11 hours ago

    Tens of millions of people around the world have been forced to flee their homes. Half of them are children.

    2 replies 82 retweets 99 likes
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  12. 12 hours ago

    In 2017 Every 2 seconds ⌚️ someone was forced to flee 🚶🏽‍♀️ their home due to war, violence, or persecution. ⚠️

    4 replies 56 retweets 79 likes
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  13. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    I discussed with President Keïta of Mali 🇲🇱 how to create conditions for Malian refugees to return. Security is a priority, balanced by dialogue, respect of rights, humanitarian access and development.

    1 reply 15 retweets 34 likes
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  14. 13 hours ago

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

    27 retweets 60 likes
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  15. 14 hours ago

    Volunteer for people with disabilities ♿ Best friends with Safa aged 7 👧 Refugee Spend a day with Alya in Jordan 🇯🇴 -

    28 retweets 70 likes
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  16. 14 hours ago

    Syrian entrepreneur Yara Al Adib opened her catering company's first kitchen in Antwerp, Belgium, staffed by refugee employees she met on the streets, on the tram and in supermarkets

    2 replies 43 retweets 96 likes
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  17. 14 hours ago

    1 in 110 has left behind friends. 1 in 110 has made the decision of whether they had time to grab photo albums. 1 in 110 has had their world turned upside-down. 1 in 110 has faced the unthinkable. 1 in 110 has been forced to flee their home.

    1 reply 69 retweets 64 likes
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  18. 15 hours ago

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

    1 reply 40 retweets 85 likes
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  19. 15 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:

    1 reply 79 retweets 131 likes
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  20. 15 hours ago

    Refugee + asylum seeking children in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland have found new homes and a chance to dream again

    2 replies 41 retweets 83 likes
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  21. 17 hours ago

    2013 📈 2014 📈 2015 📈 2016 📈 2017 📈 For the 5th year in a row, the number of people forcibly displaced reached a new high.

    3 replies 63 retweets 59 likes
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