“Local, low-key, grassroots” – these are the watchwords of a Hungarian community foundation that seeks to include all foreigners, including refugees, in its activities
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Afghan refugees among flocks of happy kids on first day at school in Romania
Bashir Khan from Afghanistan is glad to see his children getting a better education than he did thanks to their enrollment in a school in Bucharest.
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European States urged to do more to protect and support child refugees and migrants
Some 80,800 people arrived in Europe via Mediterranean routes between January and September 2019. More than a quarter of them are children, many travelling without their parents.
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Croatian students can virtually walk in the shoes of refugees
UNHCR supplies virtual reality goggles to give Croatian teenagers a 3D experience of life in a refugee camp.
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Young Tajik family finds home with Polish politician
Politician Marcin Święcicki matched words with deeds when he and his wife took a refugee family into their home.
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Czech picture book is a winner, whichever way you look at it
Czech illustrator is delighted by the response of refugee children to her new picture book.
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Young Tajik family finds home with Polish politician
Politician Marcin Święcicki matched words with deeds when he took refugees into their home.
Tajik refugees Sitora and Sanjar spent several months in Święcicki's home with their baby daughter Simin. While they were comfortable, they always aimed to become self-reliant. Soon after publishing our story they moved out while still remaining friends with the Święcickis. They now rent their own apartment and Sanjar is working as a cook.
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Prague students play out an ordeal that is real for refugees
A simulated drama helps school students to understand how bewildering the asylum process can be for refugees.
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Stateless African finds his way through legal maze in Slovakia
Ben Salam from Ivory Coast was stateless from birth but he only understood the full extent of his problem when he reached Europe. Slovakia finally helped him to solve it.
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Hungary’s coerced removal of Afghan families deeply shocking – UNHCR
Hungary’s actions overnight to force two asylum-seeking Afghan families to leave the country under duress is deeply shocking and a flagrant violation of international and EU law, the UN Refugee Agency said today.
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Cubes give new dimension to refugee stories in Croatia
Refugees see themselves multiplied by four in an imaginative open-air photo exhibition in the heart of Zagreb
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Syrian refugee makes an impression at Croatian printer
Anass is one of several refugees using his skills at Croatia’s oldest printing company.
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