Hegyeshalom, Hungary - October 6, 2015: Group of refugees leaving Hungary. They came to Hegyeshalom by train and then they leaving Hungary and go to Austria and then to Germany. Many of them escapes from home because of civil war.
Here are five facts from the 2022 UNHCR Refugee Education Report, All Inclusive: The Campaign for Refugee Education, that give greater insight into the current status of refugee children’s education and how it can be improved.
A record 114 million forcibly displaced around the world represents a “crisis of humanity”, UN refugee agency (UNHCR) chief Filippo Grandi said on Wednesday as the Global Refugee Forum got underway in Geneva.
For former Post-Gazette photojournalist Martha Rial, an assignment to document human struggle in Central Africa amid the civil war and humanitarian crisis in Rwanda and Burundi was her first international experience. She traveled in December 1996 to Africa and met up with her sister, a nurse for the International Rescue Committee in Tanzania. “It was an incredible place to start,” Ms. Rial said recently.
The flood of refugees from Rwanda included both innocent victims and ruthless killers. Although U.N. supported and supplied, from the beginning the camps in Zaire were ruled by thugs.
Ukrainian women who were fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine hold their children as they arrive at a temporary camp in Przemysl, Poland on March 1, 2022 [Kai Pfaffenbach/ Reuters]