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We take special care to bring you the latest refugee news and stories of the men, women and children we help each day.
Exiled Afghan women’s football team scores goals in Australia
Team members have found safety and “a second chance” in Melbourne while using every opportunity to advocate for the rights of women back home.
Open doors, open hearts: what you need to know about shelters for asylum-seekers in Canada
In the last few weeks, we have heard a lot about asylum-seekers in Toronto sleeping on the streets while a public debate rages about who foots the bill. Sadly, the people suffering the most are those left without a roof over their heads.
Rising violence drives refugees from Burkina Faso to neighbouring countries
Attacks and persecution against civilians have forced tens of thousands of Burkinabe to cross borders in recent months, in a region already struggling with food insecurity and climate shocks.
Rohingya refugees face hunger and loss of hope after latest ration cuts
At camps in Cox’s Bazar, refugees are feeling the impacts of a second cut to their food rations in three months.
Displaced Afghans get help to rebuild their lives and communities
After many years of conflict, close to 1.4 million internally displaced Afghans have returned to their places of origin since 2021 and are getting support to work towards a better future.
Award-winning artist K’naan releases new song honouring refugees
In his first new recording for more than a decade, singer-songwriter who fled Mogadishu as a child says he wanted the song to feel ‘like a home for those of us made homeless by conflict.’
Indigenous Venezuelan teacher encourages school enrolment of Warao children in Brazil
The community leader Daisy Perez works to ensure education for indigenous refugee and migrant children in Manaus
Sudanese refugees fleeing conflict find safety in South Sudan
Thousands of Sudanese refugees who arrived at UNHCR’s transit centre in Renk are being transported to refugee camps in Maban county in Upper Nile State.
South Sudan’s hostages of the climate emergency
For people living with year-round flooding in Bentiu in northern South Sudan, climate change is not just an environmental issue, it is a challenge to their very existence.
Thriving refugee farm cooperative gives hope in Kenya’s Kakuma camp
Kenya’s increasingly inclusive policies are giving refugees the opportunity to not only rebuild their lives but also to thrive and give back to their host community.
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