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Caught in the crossfire: conflict & children

Caught in the crossfire: conflict & children

Nov 18, 2016 | Featured Story

Approximately half of the world’s refugees are children. The international community must act quickly to protect the millions of young people whose lives have been brutally interrupted by conflict. As of 2016, 65.3 million people around the world have been forced to...
The Syrian Conflict Through the Eyes of a Child

The Syrian Conflict Through the Eyes of a Child

Nov 7, 2016 | Featured Story

This is a fictionalized account of a child’s experience during the ongoing conflict in Syria. It is based on true events and interviews with child refugees and their families as documented by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency in The Future of Syria: Refugee Children in...
Children in Calais in a world away from home

Children in Calais in a world away from home

Sep 27, 2016 | News Releases

A centre for young refugees in Saint-Omer offers shelter and protection, as well as the chance to enjoy being children again. On a cloudy day in the northern French town of Saint-Omer, Ibrahim, from Darfur in Sudan, is tending to a crop of vegetables with eight other...

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