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@Refugees

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

120 countries
Joined April 2008
Born on June 20, 1951

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    Jun 20

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

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

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  3. "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.

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

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  5. “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:

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

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

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

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  9. “No one becomes a refugee by choice” ~

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  10. 2013 📈 2014 📈 2015 📈 2016 📈 2017 📈 For the 5th year in a row, forced displacement reached a new high.

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

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

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  13. Retweeted

    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.

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

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

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  16. 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

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  17. 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.

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

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  19. “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:

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

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  21. 2013 📈 2014 📈 2015 📈 2016 📈 2017 📈 For the 5th year in a row, the number of people forcibly displaced reached a new high.

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