Archive for 'Human Story'
Statelessness: Citizenship Hopes Draw Closer for Roma Asylum-Seeker
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 30 (UNHCR) – Muqishta Nuqi has long felt like the odd one out in his family. For years, the ethnic Roma has lacked a nationality and lived under the threat of being expelled [...]
A new home on memory lane in Bosnia and Herzegovina
GORAZDE, Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 14 (UNHCR) – Biserka Vukasinovic has a strong homing instinct, honed from her experience as a refugee twice over, a returnee and an internally displaced person. Every time she lost her [...]
1 Longing to Go Home: Dream of return nears reality for Angolan mother
KILUEKA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 24 (UNHCR) –Fifty-year-old Maria Mbuona and six members of her family live in a tumbledown home the size of a garden shed. When it rains, the thatched roof offers no [...]
1 Refugee Without Hope: Eritrean teen does not dare to dream
SALLUM, Egypt, July 5 (UNHCR) –In the harsh, arid landscape of Sallum, there is a small fragile figure, walking alone in the desert sun, shielding himself from the dust and wind, battling his inner fears and insecurities. [...]
