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Teenage Refugee in Tunisia

Teenage Ivorian refugee discovers a new world in Tunisia

By On February 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Jewelry-making is helping teenage refugee Abdel* cope with life in a Tunisian refugee camp, get over a tragic past, and prepare for a future that is starting to look up.

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A Portrait of an Iraqi Artist as a Refugee

By On October 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Mohammed wants to become a roving art teacher for refugees around the world. But for now, the Iraqi refugee instructs fellow refugees in a desert camp in Tunisia.

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Road to Resettlement 4

Photo Friday: The Road to Resettlement

By On June 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

A team of Spanish officials have arrived in Choucha camp in Tunisia to interview and select about 80 refugees for resettlement in Spain. This photo album tells the story.

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Refugee Stories: Fathi Khalifa, Libya

By On April 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Fathi Khalifa, 42, fled his native Libya twenty years ago, following a crackdown in his hometown of Sabha. He has since lived in Morocco and, most recently, in Holland, where he settled three years ago as a refugee.

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Photo Friday: The first step to a new life

By On March 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Photo: A refugee, displaced due to the uprising in Libya, receives the official notice: He will be resettled to the United States.

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IKEA Foundation donates mattresses, duvets and covers for Libya-displaced

By On June 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The world’s largest home furnishing company is donating bedroom products to the forcibly displaced in Tunisia under a partnership with UNHCR.

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From a desk in Geneva to a border in Tunisia: an interview with UNHCR’s Jens Hesemann

By On May 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

UNHCR fundraiser Jens Hesemann left his comfortable life in Geneva to help set up the Choucha and Ramada refugee camps in Tunisia.

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