Lone children face insecurity on Greek island
Children seeking asylum who have been separated from their parents say they face poor conditions and threats of violence at a reception centre on the Greek island of Lesvos. By Boris Cheshirkov on Lesvos, Greece Zemar* was only 15 when he arrived from Afghanistan at...
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Yusra Mardini on desperate journeys
Yusra Mardini is a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, a Syrian refugee, and an Olympian. She swam in Rio2016 as part of the first ever Refugee Olympic Team. In 2015, I was 17, a high school student dreaming of representing my country at international swimming events. As the...
Yemen: faces from the front lines of a humanitarian emergency
Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian disaster with more than 24 million people who require humanitarian or protection assistance. Since 2015, Yemen’s conflict has killed 17,000 civilians and displaced 3.65 million. Escalating conflict continues to cause...
The Tailor Project’s 70-year-old roots help today’s skilled refugees
Seven decades later, The Tailor Project’s legacy lives on in a brighter future for refugees By Fiona Irvine-Goulet Like threads woven through the fabric of history, 90-something Montrealer Irving Leibgott, originally from Poland, and 43-year-old Mohamad*, a Syrian...
European States urged to do more to protect and support child refugees and migrants
European States must step up their efforts to protect child refugees and migrants who have endured not only difficult and dangerous journeys but continue to face risks and hardship once in Europe, including unsafe accommodation, being incorrectly registered as adults,...
Meet the Canadian CEO sponsoring and hiring refugees
“I try to do better every day.” By Lauren La Rose Meet the homegrown entrepreneur giving hundreds of refugees a fresh start in Canada. “Do the right thing” is much more to Jim Estill than his appliance company’s corporate tagline: it’s a personal motto that has guided...
Young Salvadoran works to protect his community from gang violence
By Diana Diaz Adults often look back at their early teenage years, as some of the best ones of their life—a time when they were young, careless and free; a time when they could make mistakes and learn for the future. But for young men like Jose*, being careless, free...
Venezuela: a continuing crisis grips South America
The ongoing emergency situation in Venezuela is one of the largest and most far-reaching of our time. The South American country has been gripped by political and economic turmoil for years. Shortages of food and medicine, a lack of access to medical care, escalating...