A community sponsorship pilot programme aims to provide wrap-around care to five families of refugees as they settle in the Basque Country. It stems from a collaboration between civil society groups, central and regional governments and .
Bombs were dropping in Yemen, but that didn’t stop one Yemeni woman from completing the task at hand: baking a massive cake. Her resilience was captured by documentary photographer Thana Faroq in an image now on display in a joint by , and . “I never stop craving something sweet,” she told Ms. Faroq, and this made her realize that her neighbours likely felt the same way, igniting a small business.
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A group of survivors devastated by terrorism in the Lake Chad region of Africa, are taking small steps towards building new lives and livelihoods.聽In this of our
In the mid-1970s, Marta Duque's father sent her from her home in the Colombian city of Pamplona, tucked into a far eastern range of the Andes, to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to work as a live-in maid. She was 12 years old. Long since back in Colombia, today, in their hour of need. It all began in 2017 when she turned her garage into a makeshift shelter for Venezuelan refugees and migrants making an often precarious overland journey to destinations throughout Colombia and further afield. Some two years later, even the living room furniture has been put into storage to make room for the mats where up to 100 people sleep cheek-by-jowl.
The study draws on the most extensive and intensive survey ever undertaken of Africans who had migrated to Europe through irregular means from multiple African countries.聽
After a mistranslation led her to enrol in a plumbing workshop, Safaa trained her own team of mostly Syrian refugee women to fix leaky taps and challenge stereotypes.
Maximus arrived in Ecuador in July 2019 with a group of Venezuelan migrants, who crossed more than 2,600 kilometers聽by bus and on foot.
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.
urged States present at a 缅北禁地Refugee agency meeting to do more to help address stateless people鈥檚 despair.聽"It's hard to imagine the degree of invisibility that stateless people experience," she said.聽The actor and activist's work has allowed her to meet stateless people all over the world. She challenged countries to find solutions to statelessness: "Every inch of our world is divided into States. States which you all represent. But where do those people go who don't belong anywhere?"
Azizbek Ashurov, a lawyer, whose work has supported the efforts of the Kyrgyz Republic in becoming the first country in the world to聽, has been selected as the 2019 winner of the 缅北禁地Refugee Agency鈥檚 .聽Through his organization Ferghana Valley Lawyers Without Borders (FVLWB), he has helped well over 10,000 people to gain Kyrgyz nationality after they became stateless following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Ashurov says he was motivated by his own family鈥檚 difficult experience of achieving citizenship after arriving from Uzbekistan:聽鈥淚 realised that if it was this difficult for me - with my education and as a lawyer - then imagine how hard it must be for an ordinary person鈥, .
A Century of Migration in One Man鈥檚 Lifetime
Grammy-winning recording artist and UNICEF supporter Dua Lipa travelled to Lebanon聽 to meet children and young people supported by UNICEF, including many uprooted by the eight-year conflict in Syria. She spoke to vulnerable children and young people about the obstacles they face in their daily lives.