UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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- Stay safe, keep moving - refugees share some tips on how sport can help us cope through crisis
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 07/04/2020
For refugees, sports is crucial - it is how so many get through crisis and deal with the trauma of war and displacement. Refugee athletes share how staying acti...
- Displaced Yemenis count their losses
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 06/04/2020
After five years of conflict in Yemen, displaced people and their hosts are struggling to survive. As thousands continue to flee in search of safety, humanitari...
- Za’atari refugee women make soap to help keep families sanitize
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 01/04/2020
Using natural materials, refugee women in Jordan’s largest refugee camp are making locally produced soap and giving them away to families in need. The women are...
- Lebanon: Isolation unit piloted in refugee settlement to slow coronavirus
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 31/03/2020
As the world deals with Covid-19 pandemic, UNHCR is making preprations to ensure the refugee population in Lebanon is equipped to deal with an outbreak. UNHCR t...
- Displaced Iraqi returns to Mosul to rebuild home and memories
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 25/03/2020
Returning to his beloved 6000-year-old neighbourhood in Mosul, Saad walks his daughter through it, showing her landmarks and places he took her to as a toddler....
- Naleen's Song: 9 Years of the Syria Crisis
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 16/03/2020
When conflict struck her hometown of Qamlishly, Syria, 15-year-old Naleen fled with her mother to safety across the border into Iraq. Naleen's tanbur, a traditi...
- One year on, people displaced by Cyclone Idai still struggle to rebuild and recover
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 13/03/2020
In Mozambique, people displaced by Cyclone Idai one year ago are still struggling to rebuild their lives. More than 93,000 out of the hundreds of thousands disp...
- Panama: Stitching together a new life
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 12/03/2020
When Delsy fled Colombia 18 years ago for Panama, her dreams of working in fashion disappeared. But after taking part in a programme that helps put skilled refu...
- Nicaraguan refugee yearns for diploma ‘lost’ to political tumult
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 11/03/2020
Arturo Martinez was only months from graduating from university when he joined in anti-government protests. In return, he was beaten and threatened, forced to a...
- Former Malian refugee rebuilds, opening tailoring business at home
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 10/03/2020
Sidi Ould Amin is a former refugee from Mali who returned home and started his own tailoring business. He’s making use of the valuable skills he learned in a re...
