Melissa Fleming is the Head of Communications and Chief Spokesperson for the United High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and one of the world's experts on refugees. In A Hope More Powerful Than The ...

Doctor Doaa Abu-Elyounes is a Program Specialist for Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at UNESCO, and she is leading the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI among different ...

Doaa Al Zamel struggled to keep the baby in her hands above the surging waters of the Mediterranean Sea. A few feet away, the man she loved was dying before her eyes. “Bassem!” the 19-year-old Syrian ...

Every day, I listen to stories of people fleeing for their lives, across dangerous borders and unfriendly seas to reach safety. The story of a young woman, Doaa, is so troubling it still keeps me ...

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Her fiancée died trying to cross the Mediterranean. Doaa herself was rescued, and she was holding two babys in her arm when help arrived. Melissa Fleming of the UNHCR wrote a book about it. Anyone who ...

Doaa Shayea said strangers had told her it was a shame she was pretty as it was wasted on her because of her disability A make-up artist who uses a wheelchair is writing "hurtful" words strangers call ...

In 2016 alone at least 5,000 migrants and refugees died attempting the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean sea — all of them desperate to escape war and poverty in their country. More migrants ...