All across Croatia, refugees from the wars of the 1990s are finally getting decent and affordable homes they can call their own
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Young Tajik family finds home with Polish politician
Politician Marcin Święcicki matched words with deeds when he and his wife took a refugee family into their home.
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Czech picture book is a winner, whichever way you look at it
Czech illustrator is delighted by the response of refugee children to her new picture book.
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Refugee education in crisis
More than half of the world’s school-age refugee children do not get an education
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Grassroots district group weaves refugees into local community
“Local, low-key, grassroots” – these are the watchwords of a Hungarian community foundation that seeks to include all foreigners, including refugees, in its activities
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Prague students play out an ordeal that is real for refugees
A simulated drama helps school students to understand how bewildering the asylum process can be for refugees.
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Statelessness robs man of normal life in Croatia
Boro Topolic lived a perfectly normal life for decades, only to wake up one day and discover he had become stateless.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is campaigning to end statelessness, which affects millions of people worldwide, denying them basic human rights that citizens take for granted.
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Stories
A fresh start for some who have been refugees twice over
Refugees evacuated from hot spots in the Middle East reach a safe haven in Romania, where they will prepare for resettlement in Norway.
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Statelessness robs two men of normal lives in Croatia
Two citizens of former Yugoslavia found themselves stateless in Croatia after a series of bureaucratic mishaps.
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Fashion stardom beckons for Somali refugee in Hungary
A new documentary tracks Kafia Mahdi’s path from child refugee to in-demand model.
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Polish city gives Syrian poet peace and space to speak out
Poet Kholoud Charaf is using a two-year residency in Kraków to highlight the suffering of those forced to flee the conflict in her homeland.
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Under pressure, university closes its doors to refugee students
With the suspension of the Central European University’s Open Learning Initiative, refugees have lost a unique opportunity to continue their studies and contribute to the region.
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