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The latest stories from UNHCR.

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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. 

The kindness of strangers

The kindness of strangers

Mohammad and Sahar sat across the aisle from one another, each with a son and daughter to care for during the 13-hour flight. Refugees from Syria, they had never been on a plane before. This life-changing journey would take them on four in as many days. Behind them...

A Childhood Cut Short by Syria’s War

A Childhood Cut Short by Syria’s War

  During a break between classes, Ivra and her clutch of friends sit near the edge of a small playground in southern Turkey. Teenagers, they’re mostly dressed in skinny jeans and trainers; some wear decorative scarves and nail polish. As they gossip, crack jokes...

The Whatsapp Wedding

The Whatsapp Wedding

Kept apart by war, two young Syrians fired up their smartphones and found love against the odds. With no end in sight to the human suffering inflicted by the war in Syria, it can feel like there is never any good news to tell. So when a colleague mentioned a young...

The Sea Route to Europe

The Sea Route to Europe

A large majority of the thousands of people who made dangerous sea journeys across the Mediterranean into Europe in the first six months of 2015 were fleeing war, conflict or persecution. This makes the current Mediterranean crisis primarily a refugee crisis,...

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