Online learning program empowers refugees to pursue higher education
Master’s student in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp plays active role in campus life at Canada’s York University By Lauren La Rose Abdikadir Bare Abikar has never seen York University in person, yet distance has proved to be no barrier for the graduate student who has...
Inside Venezuela: One of the largest and most far-reaching emergencies of our time
Traditionally, Venezuela has been a generous host to thousands of refugees. But with escalating economic instability, violence and a lack of access to food, medicine and jobs, Venezuelan families themselves have been forced to flee their country. By the end of 2019,...
Opinion: We need to tell the world of the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”
By Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR Yemen Representative I am the new UNHCR Representative in Yemen, writing this from our base in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital city at the foot of Mount Nuqum in the western part of the country. I was last here in 2013 during what became a very...