Health, distraction and integration – the story of how Sayed ran a marathon
For asylum-seekers waiting to have their application processed, time can go by very slowly. One solution is to start running – far. Sayed from Afghanistan has become a regular sight as he runs along the town roads on Sweden’s High Coast – and now he has completed a marathon in solidarity with the world’s refugees.
Taking the plunge: Swimming lessons help integration in Norway
Somali refugee Abdullahi Yusuf Jibril helps others to take the plunge.
Openness. Humanity. Security: World Refugee Day 2017 in Riga
World Refugee in Riga: stories, virtual excursions and delicious Middle Eastern food.
Saving lives and welcoming refugees, a responsibility of everyone
World Refugee Day is also a good time for everyone to contemplate what each of us can do to overcome indifference or fear and embrace the idea of inclusion, and welcome refugees into our own communities.
Refugee Children Play Music for Integration
As a prelude to World Refugee Day in Sweden, UNHCR organized a pop-up philharmonic concert for passers-by in central Stockholm. The concert was performed by child refugees and asylum-seekers from El Sistema Sweden Dream Orchestra.
War, violence, persecution push displacement to new unprecedented high
UNHCR’s new Global Trends report says that at the end of 2016 there were 65.6 million people forcibly displaced worldwide.
Observations from UNHCR on Finnish law proposal on promotion of integration
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has submitted our observations to the Finnish government’s law proposal to amend the Act on the Promotion of Immigrant Integration. UNHCR wishes to welcome Finland’s approach to integration as a two-way process and Finland’s holistic...
Observations on Swedish law proposal on age assessment in the asylum procedure
UNHCR’s observations to the Swedish government’s law proposal on age assessment earlier in the asylum procedure.
How do you say servo-valve in Swedish? Basel’s phrasebook helps refugee engineers
Conductivity, servo-valves and stator cores – even if you are fluent in a language you might not know these words. Basel Taleb, a refugee and electrical engineer built a tool to help himself – and other foreign engineers – to understand the Swedish energy sector.
Denmark’s emergency funding saves lives in Iraq and Tanzania
UNHCR has released USD 2 million from Denmark’s Emergency Reserve Fund to provide immediate help to people who have been forced to flee their homes in Iraq and Burundi. The grants from this fund will provide men, women and children who have abandoned everything with access to basic services and core relief items.
‘Leaving no one behind’: Norway’s unearmarked core support to the UNHCR saves refugees
In 2016, Norway became the largest donor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) per capita, the seventh largest donor country to UNHCR in total and the fourth largest donor of unearmarked support.
Living Library in Riga: Stories as means for promoting understanding
“What matters is that they all have something to say, and that we can use conversation to erase the artificially constructed boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’ in order to see what unites us all”