Tagged: Migrant and Refugee Crisis

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Write 2 Unite: A digital intercultural dialogue

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In 2015, the migrant and refugee crisis shook the world. Public discourse on the topic has remained charged ever since. Refugee host countries seem divided. Discussions remain emotional and binary – two camps, two stances on the issue: #RefugeesWelcome or #RefugeesGoHome. There is little room for constructive debate – everyone talks,… Read more →←
Sajad applies for asylum.

“I’d be a superhero…” Sajad Al-Faraji: after Iraq

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Presevo, Serbia, November 2015   “I don’t have any hope, I was born without hope,” says Sajad Al-Faraji, a 15-year-old boy traveling from Basra, Iraq. Sajad is with his older sister, younger brother and his mother on his way to a train station that’s exclusively serving refugees in southern Serbia. I’m on assignment for… Read more →←

A Syrian refugee is the first student in three generations

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Last week I was welcomed by Sidra’s family into their home in Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Her family fled the conflict in Syria in late 2013. Sidra lives with her parents, grandparents, two uncles and their families, one aunt, and six siblings. The three-room house is unfinished, with unpainted walls, no locks and only one… Read more →←
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The sun rises from the rubble: Syrian children’s journey of hope

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“Mother, this area has a nice echo…” said 10 year-old Ansam when she reached a destroyed town in rural Damascus that serves as the shocking backdrop of our music video marking six years of a horrifying conflict in Syria. I first met Ansam when she walked onto the stage of the Damascus Opera house last December, with so much… Read more →←

Trapped: Inside Libya’s detention centres

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Every day, thousands of people travel from the hinterlands of Africa and the Middle East, across the Sahara to Libya – the entry point to the Mediterranean Sea. They flee war, violence and poverty. Thousands die along the way or endure exploitation, abuse, violence and detention in the hope of reaching Europe and a better life. Italian… Read more →←
طفلتان صغيرتان في نافذة، إحداهما تلوّح

Turkey in the time of Syrian refugees

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I recently traveled to Gaziantep in southern Turkey, close to the Syrian border, because I wanted to see the situation for refugee children first-hand. Turkey is carrying a huge burden, helping with what is now the biggest refugee population in the world: nearly 2.8 million Syrian refugees, of which 1.2 million are child refugees.… Read more →←
A woman stands with her family.

“We can’t go home, so we need to send our children to school.”

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The village of Hasansham, which until a few months ago was the scene of heavy fighting, has a surreal quality. It’s situated in a beautiful, seemingly tranquil river valley; one that’s dotted by stark stone outcrops. The houses are either a drab sandy colour, or bare concrete. As such, they blend with the arid countryside, so it’s… Read more →←
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Drama of life and death for children on the move to Italy

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For once it was a moment not of anxiety and despair but to stop and celebrate. For once we felt the thrill of new life, new hope in the ongoing drama of life and death of children on the move in the Central Mediterranean. The Italian Coastguard crew on the Luigi Dattilo vessel – who have saved thousands of refugees and migrants from… Read more →←

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