Running to Safety

Only a small percentage of refugees are resettled each year, and humanitarian visas are difficult to obtain Several countries, including the United States, used the Covid-19 public health emergency as a pretext to ban asylum seekers and push them off to neighboring countries ill-equipped to deal with them, or confine them in scandalous inhumane jail-like conditions at the border, thereby denying them due process in their asylum claims Children should not be detained for immigration-related purposes, irrespective of their legal/migratory status or that of their parents. Instead, care arrangements and community-based programmes need to be in place to ensure adequate reception of children and their families

Internally displaced person

· Refugee

Asylum Seeker

Stateless Person

Persecution

1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugees

1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees

The Most Shocking Second a Day Operations Data Portal: Refugee Situations Interactive Map

Refugee Life: Through a Child’s Eyes

Yusra Mardini Inspiring Story

An 11-year-old Starts Over in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

DRC Child Refugees War Stories

The Rules of War in a Nutshell

Who is a Refugee?

Who is an Asylum Seeker?

What Does it Mean to be a Refugee?

Human Rights Explained

Interactive feature by BBC Syrian Journey

Resilience – game about refugee camp and how to distribute resources

Venezuelan asylum seekers ended up on Martha’s Vineyard