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An aerial view shows makeshift shelters at the Dagahaley camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border in Garissa County, Kenya, on April 3, 2011.
Refugee camps versus urban refugees: What’s been said — and done
For two years, Ismail al-Kanon and his mother, Jandar Nasi, were captives of ISIS. More than most living under the terror group’s rule, they had reason to expect that they would never escape — because they were Iraqi Christians.
Conflict
How an Iraqi Christian teenager survived two years in the heart of the ISIS ‘caliphate’
Yana, 40 (left) with her social worker Olga. Yana has recently been released from prison and Olga helps Yana readjust to the everyday life. Mariupol 2016.
Conflict
Stigma, discrimination, violence: Among the internally displaced in Ukraine with HIV (Photos)
Georgiy Gaidamaka left his native Simferopol, in Crimea, after the Russian government said it would cut end the methadone­ substitution therapy he’d relied on to treat his heroin addiction. Now he lives in Kiev, where he builds amplifiers from old Soviet
Conflict
For Ukrainians displaced by conflict, there’s no going back
A Syrian refugee woman stands near her tent at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 15, 2015.
Conflict
‘They told me they were going to melt me in acid if I continue the work I was doing’
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sleep on the ground at the Bajed Kadal refugee camp in southwest Dohuk province on August 23, 2014.
Conflict
A former UN relief coordinator says Iraqi and Syrian refugees pose the biggest humanitarian crisis of our generation
Number of Displaced Surge as Conflict in Syria Continues
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