Special Features
Unique content and special features from UNHCR – globally and in Canada.
Photo: © UNHCR/Paula Bronstein
With 80 million displaced people around the world, there are so many stories to tell. Here, find documentaries, books, and more stories from UNHCR.
Diversity and Inclusion
In this series of stories, Black refugees share how racial inequality has shaped them as individuals and how they strive to be successful about overcoming systemic racism in their communities and workplaces in Canada. Read the stories of Manock Lual, a former refugee from South Sudan and now an entrepreneur and basketball coach in Ottawa, and Louise Simbandumwe, a career community development practitioner and advocate for human rights and social justice.
A Book of Poems: Expressions from our Youth
In 2009, UNHCR Canada and COSTI Immigrant Services organized the first Refugees and Human Rights Child and Youth Poetry Contest in commemoration of World Refugee Day, June 20. The purpose of the contest has been to bring human rights education, particularly awareness to the refugee situation, to the Canadian classroom. By asking youth to write poetry about refugees and human rights acts as a tool to encourage Canada’s future to think as humanitarian and compassionate leaders towards their brothers and sisters living worldwide. Read the Book of Poems.
Between Lives
Meet Abdul, Farida and their children – one of the families you are helping to support – as they settle into Za’atari Camp, Jordan after fleeing conflict in Syria.
In the first episode out of seven, UNHCR Community Services Officer, Ihab Shaban, explains how the registration process is the first and most important step in helping refugees. This is the documentary series, Between Lives.
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