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Architect helps Syrian trio build new lives in Sweden
Monday 5, September 2016 MALMÖ, Sweden – Architect Lars Asklund, who is affectionetly known as Jim, was deeply moved by the images on television of thousands of people arriving in Sweden in 2015. He wanted to help, but did not know how. First, he went to...
Agreement on border monitoring ensures that refugees have access to Romanian territory
Friday 25, July 2008 Bucharest, July 25 (UNHCR) – Romania, the Romanian government and the National Council for Refugees signed a Tripartite Memorandum that will facilitate cooperation at Romania’s external EU border to make sure that asylum seekers have...
Global forced displacement hits record high
Monday 20, June 2016 Conflict and persecution caused global forced displacement to escalate sharply in 2015, reaching the highest level ever recorded and representing immense human suffering, according to a report released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency....
Human Stories
Once a child refugee, young Afghan becomes confident “Hungarian” man
Friday 2, January 2015 BUDAPEST, Hungary, December 31 (UNHCR) – Sipping coffee in a Budapest café, wearing a stylish black jacket, Dariush Rezai looks very much like other confident 20-year-olds in the room. Like many of them, he speaks in...
Hungarian border last hurdle on a long journey from war zones
Thursday 18, December 2014 SUBOTICA, Serbia, December 18 (UNHCR) – Asadullah, a 23-year-old Afghan man, wears a broad smile that belies his circumstances. Shivering in an abandoned brick factory, he waits to be smuggled across the nearby border into...
Syrians give back to the country that gave them refuge and hope
Monday 15, December 2014 BUDAPEST, Hungary, December 15 (UNHCR) – Standing in their modest apartment in the Hungarian capital, Syrian refugees Yasser and Abeer proudly display the instruments which they are using to build a future and give thanks to...