Migrants and Refugees

Greek volunteer life-guards help a young child out of a boat that reached the shores of Lesbos, having crossed the Aegean sea from Turkey.
UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis

World leaders at UN summit adopt 'bold' plan to enhance protections for refugees and migrants

19 September 2016
Global

With more people forced to flee their homes than at any time since World War II, world leaders came together at the United Nations today to adopt the New York Declaration, which expresses their political will to protect the rights of  refugees and migrants, to save lives and share responsibility for large movements on a global scale.

Ayham al-Ahmad sits behind his piano.
Ayham al-Ahmad’s Facebook page

FEATURE: Music for the children of Yarmouk – and all refugees

16 September 2016
Middle East

“I took my piano and made it everything: my work, and my studies at university; to teach children music,” begins Aeham Ahmad, in an interview with United Nations Radio, ahead of a UN summit on large movements of refugees and migrants on 19 September 2016.