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In a previous Art & Culture post, we presented an illustration from RefugiArte, an initiative of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) aimed at raising awareness…
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I met Ahmet (name changed) at university in Toronto during the first year of undergraduate in psychology. Ahmet used to be an academic at a…
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Zarlasht Halaimzai knows well the traumatic effects that war can create on people’s physical and mental health. She was just a child when she experienced…
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RefugiArte is an initiative of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) aimed at raising awareness about the experiences of immigrants and refugees forced to leave their…
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“Keeping you is no profit; losing you is no loss.” –slogan of the Khmer Rouge Cambodia is one of the world’s poorest countries, with 30%…