Aiming Higher with Maya Ghazal and Douglas Booth
Aiming Higher with Maya Ghazal and Douglas Booth At a refugee solidarity event hosted by our partner WeWork, Maya and Douglas discuss how education is a lifeline for so many young refugees. With only 3% of refugees currently accessing higher education, UNHCR is...
This winter, spare a thought for refugees
This winter, spare a thought for refugees On a trip to Egypt with UNHCR David Morrissey met those forced to flee. ©UNHCR/Pedro Costa Gomes Late in 2019, before COVID-19 became a part of our everyday, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador David Morrissey travelled to Egypt,...
Seeking safety in Amman
Seeking safety in Amman Hunada and her children left everything behind in Damascus. ©UNHCR/Jordi Matas When Hunada thinks back to the apartment she owned in Syria, she remembers it fondly. “It had three bedrooms, a big guestroom, a big living room, bathrooms and a...
Far from home: battling winter in Jordan
Far from home: battling winter in Jordan “I’m just very thankful that it’s safe here. My children are safe, so we’re okay.” More stories © UNHCR / Jordi Matas When Nisreen found out young men were being randomly detained in 2014, she and her four...
More than 43,000 flee Ethiopia in just under a month
More than 43,000 flee Ethiopia in just under a month An emergency on top of an emergency; a crisis is unravelling in northern Ethiopia, where clashes between the Ethiopian army and forces from the Tigray region are driving thousands of people to flee – more than half...
Finding hope in the harshest winters
Finding hope in the harshest of winters “Without the winter aid, our situation would’ve been very bad. It came as a saviour during hardship. It really helped.” More stories ©UNHCR/Amine Abou Ghanem Nearly eight years ago, Noura and her family had no...
Finding safety down the Ubungi River
Finding safety down the Ubungi River Twenty-year-old Marie Claire Immindu fled her village when armed men came looking for her father. More stories © UK for UNHCR/Hugh Kinsella Cunningham The Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the world’s poorest countries and...
New schools for Rohingya refugees
New schools for Rohingya refugees Ayesha’s has renewed hope for her younger siblings after they lost their parents when fleeing Myanmar More stories © UNHCR/Kamrul Hasan 19-year-old Ayesha fled her home in Myanmar and made her way to the camps of Cox’s Bazar,...