united nations high commissioner for refugees Archives

Judaism in Action in Bangladesh: A Field Log From the Rohingya Refugee Camps

Ann Strimov Durbin March 27, 2019

A Passover without sustenance in South Sudan

Susan Freudenheim April 6, 2017

The real victims of Syrian migrants

Danielle Berrin January 6, 2016

We’ve all heard the fear mongering about how Syrian refugees are mostly men — which somehow makes them more susceptible to becoming terrorists, and therefore dangerous to the West.

The forgotten refugees of Ghouta, Syria

Simone Wilson December 12, 2013

The most infamous attack over two-and-a-half years of civil war in Syria — a silent sarin gassing in the city of Ghouta that killed more than 1,500 and sent allied countries to the brink of world war — came in the night.

Israelis helping Syrian refugees in Jordan: Balancing aid and diplomacy

Simone Wilson December 11, 2013

Mafraq is a single-story city in the desert flats of northern Jordan, built in beige and white, spiked with mosques and dotted with chalky vacant lots that suffice as soccer courts.