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GENEVA, Dec 11 (UNHCR) - The UN Refugee Agency has welcomed news of the arrival in Canada last night of the first group of Syrian refugees under a recently announced humanitarian programme. The ...

Abu Mealek, 26, has been learning to express those memories — and the trauma of leaving them behind — through art. Why U.K. doctors are doling out 'social prescriptions' to treat mental health Earlier ...

Rohan Mesto stands in front of his sponsor Kathy Hart's home in Lafayette on Dec. 5. Credit: Natalie Kerr “I’m going to use the bathroom, mom.” Rohan Mesto jogged up the hill and ducked behind a tree, ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Syrian refugees can be matched with Canadians keen to help them rebuild their lives under a new initiative that aims to aid some of the millions of Syrians ...

On Wednesday, the photograph of a young boy face down in the surf, was trending globally. We now know the boy is Alan Kurdi, a toddler and Syrian refugee, who drowned in Turkish waters after his ...

The family of Alan Kurdi, the tiny Syrian boy whose drowning in September pricked the world's conscience over refugees, is on a fast track to come to Canada, the fifth estate reports.

Peace by Chocolate tells the true story of the Hadhad family who resettled in a small Canadian town after being forced to flee Syria.

Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year. That extraordinary figure represents nearly one-quarter of all Syrians who fled fighting during ...

Ms. Kontar is a photographer and Syrian refugee. On the edge of my homeland, a line of cars stretched before me, with people’s faces peering out. They were about to return — their bags packed, stacked ...