UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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- Pakistan: An Afghan doctor champions education for refugee women and girls
unhcr - 29/09/2021
Dr. Saleema Rehman is a 29-year-old Afghan refugee, living and practicing medicine in Pakistan. She is the 2021 Regional Winner for Asia of the UNHCR Nansen Ref...
- Serbia: Nikola Kovačević is an advocate for the rights of asylum seekers
unhcr - 29/09/2021
Nikola Kovačević is no ordinary lawyer, he is widely recognized as a fierce advocate of international refugee law, speaking publicly about the need to fight for...
- Yemen: Jeel Albena is the winner of the 2021 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
unhcr - 29/09/2021
Driven by his own experience of displacement, Ameen Jubran and his organization, Jeel Albena kept providing shelter and hope to Yemenis fleeing their homes even...
- Refugees in Cameroon are helping build a green wall to stop the desert
unhcr - 22/09/2021
Some 360,000 seedlings have been planted by refugees and host communities on more than a 100 hectares (247 acres) in and around the Minawao refugee camp in nort...
- Forced to Flee #PODCAST | Episode 2: Seeking Shelter 🔊🔊
unhcr - 22/09/2021
From the world’s biggest refugee camp in Bangladesh, to a stroll down the Champs Elysées (not that one, the other one) to a hair-raising, 1,200-kilometre journe...
- Returning home after years in exile is not easy
unhcr - 17/09/2021
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, called for concerted efforts to find lasting solutions for nearly seven million forcibly displaced people fro...
- COVID-19 tops list of UNHCR’s most underfunded situations in 2021
unhcr - 16/09/2021
Information for media: If you would like to use this video to communicate refugee stories or require B-Roll, transcripts, stills or much more information, ple...
- Forced to Flee #PODCAST | Episode 1: Escape 🔊🔊
unhcr - 15/09/2021
In the opening episode, we tell the story of two refugees who made very different journeys more than 35 years apart, but who faced many similar challenges in th...
- Forced to Flee #PODCAST | TRAILER
unhcr - 14/09/2021
🔊🔊LISTEN UP! 🔊🔊 This is Forced To Flee, the new podcast from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Forced To Flee revisits some of the world’s most tumultuous even...