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1 Refugee Without Hope: Canada offers new life to desperate refugee
15 Jun 2011 After a lifetime of persecution and seven desperate years in exile, a refugee in China found his life changed by one phone call. -
1 Family Forced to Flee: Driven out of Honduras by gang persecution
14 Jun 2011 Growing numbers of people in Central America seek asylum in Mexico, Canada and the United States to escape gang violence, persecution and extortion. -
A way out for Iraqi family caught in Libya's violence
9 May 2011 George and his family fled to the border with Egypt when conflict erupted in Libya. The Iraqis could not return home, but a solution has been found for them. -
Congolese boy recovers childhood, step by step
6 May 2011 One year on, UNHCR checks in on a refugee boy who had arrived in the Republic of the Congo traumatized by violence. -
Lost and found: a Libyan's despair turns to elation in Egypt
25 Mar 2011 A young father is separated from his family by fighting in the eastern Libyan city of Ajdabiya and hunts for them for four days in Libya and Egypt. -
Giving up your child to save her: a tale from Tunisia
16 Mar 2011 Members of a Somali family fleeing violence in Libya tell UNHCR's Andrew Purvis how they had to send their baby daughter to “safety” in Mogadishu. -
Somali labourer flees from discrimination and violence in Libya
10 Mar 2011 When a group of young Libyan men broke into his home in Tripoli and threatened to rape his wife, Fuad from Somalia fought back. -
Fighting against silence: refugees living with HIV in northern Ecuador
27 Jan 2011 The number of cases of people, including refugees, found to be infected with HIV in the Ecuadorean town of Lago Agrio has doubled over a year – just the tip of the iceberg. -
Swedish MP taps on childhood experiences to help young refugees
12 Jan 2011 New MP Hanif Bali cares deeply about the welfare of unaccompanied refugee children in Sweden. He first came to Sweden as a lone infant.