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    Syrian refugees need help now more than ever

    23 Jan 2021

    Last year I travelled to Jordan with UNHCR to meet Syrian refugees living in Azraq camp. I learnt so much from that visit, and I saw what it looks like to have resilience in the face of unimaginable difficulty.

    Immigrants welcome Afghan refugees graciously

    28 Dec 2021

    Tram Pham tears up recalling how tough life was at first in the US. But she also remembers the joy she felt as a 22-year-old refugee from Vietnam when a nurse spoke to her in her native language and guided her through a medical screening required of new arrivals.

    Why Vietnamese Americans feel for Afghan refugees

    23 Sep 2021

    In the faces of Afghans desperate to leave their country after US forces withdrew, Thuy Do sees her own family, decades earlier and thousands of miles away.

    Alarming situation

    03 Jan 2021

    It is so unfortunate that the violence is increasing day by day in Afghanistan (“Afghan journalist shot dead in care ambush,” Jan. 3, Gulf Today website). Afghanistan, a battleground for the last four decades, will be a disaster for the whole region

    Germany’s success story over hosting refugees

    06 Sep 2020

    Fifteen years ago I flew to Munich en route to Bavaria where I was invited to visit friends from Damascus who had made the torturous journey from Syria to Germany some months earlier.

    No let-up in plight of refugees

    26 Sep 2020

    If there is one species on earth who probably feel they are like the detritus of humanity, it is the migrants or refugees. Unwanted and uncared for

    A grim reminder of how UK treats its refugees

    09 Jul 2019

    The death of Shukri Yahya Abdi, a 12-year-old Somali refugee shocked an entire community when news first emerged. Abdi, described by her mother as “a quiet” but “optimistic” girl, drowned in the River Irwell in Greater Manchester, according to Greater Manchester Police, who are not treating the case as suspicious. Although this death was

    Empowerment of refugees is necessary

    21 Dec 2019

    The article about refugees is positive because it is written from the perspective of a refugee and by a refugee. True, empowerment of refugees is necessary. True, help for them should go beyond assistance.

    Refugees can be masters of their own destiny

    20 Dec 2019

    The number of refugees worldwide has reached 70 million. Confronted with a number like that, this week’s Global Refugee Forum in Geneva is facing up to a massive crisis

    Rohingya refugees protest exodus, demand rights in Myanmar

    25 Aug 2019

    The event came days after Bangladesh with the help of the UN refugee agency attempted to start the repatriation of 3,450 Rohingya Muslims but none agreed to go back voluntarily.

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