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Greece: Devastating fire compounds overcrowding and COVID-19 challenges in refugee camp

9 September 2020
Migrants and Refugees

UN agencies have offered support to Greek authorities on Wednesday after a major fire ripped through an overcrowded refugee camp overnight, destroying dwellings and forcing thousands to flee, many reportedly suffering from smoke inhalation.

WFP/Herve Verhoosel

News in Brief 26 August 2019

26 August 2019
News in Brief
  • UN chief calls for more concrete action in response to the ‘climate emergency’
  • UN food relief agency calls for additional funding in Central African Republic 
  • Young migrant’s death should prompt Athens to move other youngsters to safety: UNHCR
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Refugees and migrants arrive in Lesvos, Greece. Boat after boat lands on the coast of Lesvos between Eftalou and Skala Sykaminia.
UNHCR/Giles Duley

Photojournalist partners with UN to chronicle refugee journeys

24 July 2017
General News

From Lebanon to Greece, British Photographer Giles Duley has been capturing refugees’ epic journeys of survival as they search for a new home.

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Train heading through the Balkans (2015). The image represents the sense of longing present in many of the refugees from Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan.
Giles Duley/UNHCR

A photographer's search for "normalcy" in refugees’ lives

20 June 2016
General News

“A lot of photographers travel to places and they want to show the differences between us” and the people caught in conflict.

That’s according to Giles Duley, a British photographer who instead aims to show our similarities.

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