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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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Joined April 2008
Born on June 20, 1951
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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. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    "It was that moment of kindness by strangers who I never even got to thank, that I learned what it means to be a true Canadian." LGBTQ2 refugee rights activist shares her message of tolerance and equality. Read more here:

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  3. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    Today UNHCR provided humanitarian assistance at the Tripoli Naval Base where 25 individuals were disembarked. With daily disembarkations happening, calling for alternative legal pathways to avoid dangerous crossings across the Mediterranean Sea

    3 replies 23 retweets 48 likes
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  4. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

    The rains are intensifying in Cox's Bazar, with heavy rain predicted in the refugee settlements tonight and tomorrow. UNHCR & partners on high alert. Emergency response teams ready to deploy. Relief stock prepositioned. Stand strong .

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  5. 4 hours ago

    Judith’s husband was a refugee from Chile in the 1970s. Now she is giving sanctuary to a Syrian refugee.

    2 replies 39 retweets 101 likes
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  6. 5 hours ago

    “The communities here need stability. Migrants and refugees need stability. But resources are very limited.” - meets refugees from Burkina Faso and Niger in Mali

    1 reply 43 retweets 77 likes
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  7. 6 hours ago

    There is a single global refugee crisis and developing countries are rising to the occasion to extend a helping hand.

    6 replies 40 retweets 55 likes
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  8. 7 hours ago

    🚩If we neglect refugee girls’ education the consequences will be felt for generations. 🚩It is time to make refugee girls’ education a priority. 🚩It's .

    6 replies 78 retweets 155 likes
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  9. 9 hours ago

    “No one becomes a refugee by choice” ~

    5 replies 147 retweets 271 likes
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  10. 11 hours ago

    🚩If we neglect refugee girls’ education the consequences will be felt for generations. 🚩It is time to make refugee girls’ education a priority. 🚩It's .

    4 replies 37 retweets 103 likes
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  11. 12 hours ago

    Syria. Somalia. Lebanon. Colombia. The photos look different, but they all bring the same reminder. Home.

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  12. 14 hours ago

    “People came back and found their houses smashed. Basic services are lacking.” - meets families affected by conflict in Mali

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  13. Retweeted
    Jun 21

    , Agadez, kids of Sudanese origin born in , father missing in captivity in Southern Libya. Many children born from rape. Increased assistance & access to asylum procedure needed

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  14. 16 hours ago

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

    8 replies 172 retweets 246 likes
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  15. 18 hours ago

    📚 Refugee girls are only 50% as likely to go to secondary level as boys. ♀ It’s time to change this. It’s .

    41 retweets 104 likes
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  16. Retweeted
    22 hours ago

    Those shouting about a “refugee emergency” in Europe or America should visit African communities giving refuge to millions with small resources. Energies would be better spent helping people address problems here while sharing some of the refugee burden born by poor countries.

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  17. 19 hours ago

    The refugee children are learning French 🇫🇷 through traditional songs 🎶 before being transferred to public school.

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  18. 19 hours ago

    📚 Refugee girls are only 50% as likely to go to secondary level as boys. ♀ It’s time to change this. It’s .

    4 replies 43 retweets 84 likes
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  19. 21 hours ago

    Refugees in Kakuma camp in Kenya have set up shop, offering everything from household products to access to electricity, and creating a blossoming economy in the process.

    1 reply 34 retweets 69 likes
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  20. 22 hours ago

    Ali is using his translation skills to help asylum-seekers in Greece rebuild their lives

    1 reply 17 retweets 68 likes
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  21. 24 hours ago

    Giving refugees a chance to meet people from around the world and feel at home 🏡

    3 replies 41 retweets 89 likes
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