Many refugee women from Syria tell us they don’t feel safe in Lebanon. Here are four reasons why, and three possible solutions. , 1. Women are doubly at risk: both as refugees, and because of their gender , Amnesty recently interviewed 77 refugee women from Syria in Lebanon. Some told us that...

Omar, a refugee from Syria, was just 12 years old when he accidentally arrived alone in Sweden. It took months of tears and worry, emails and phone calls before his parents and big brother could join him. As Denmark proposes delaying family reunification for up to five years, their story shows why...

Omar, a refugee from Syria, was just 12 years old when he accidentally arrived alone in Sweden. It took months of tears and worry, emails and phone calls before his parents and big brother could join him. As Denmark proposes delaying family reunification for up to five years, their story shows why...

Opening our arms to refugees   By Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada My heart burst when I saw the picture of the drowned body of 3 year old Alan Kurdi in his red shirt and blue pants, face downward in the sand on a Turkish beach. I won’t be able to forget that...

Opening our arms to refugees  ,   , By Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada , , My heart burst when I saw the picture of the drowned body of 3 year old Alan Kurdi in his red shirt and blue pants, face downward in the sand on a Turkish beach. I won’t be able to forget...

By Lorna Hayes and Khairunissa Dhala from Amnesty’s refugee and migrants’ rights team at Amnesty’s International Secretariat Said and his partner Jamal – who is living with HIV – fled Syria after being tortured for their political activism. They are excited about starting a new life...

What is it like to be a refugee in Lebanon? The answer you’ll get will be different depending on whether you speak to a women, girl, man, or boy.  Early marriage and street harassment are just a few of the serious issues uniquely faced by refugee women and girls in Lebanon. And because of...

What is it like to be a refugee in Lebanon? The answer you’ll get will be different depending on whether you speak to a women, girl, man, or boy.  , Early marriage and street harassment are just a few of the serious issues uniquely faced by refugee women and girls in Lebanon. And because of...

By Ina Strøm from Amnesty Norway  Resettlement is a lifeline open to some of the world’s most vulnerable refugees. A young family from Syria tells us what a huge difference moving to Norway has made in their lives. “The Norwegian authorities deliberately scheduled the call on Kahraman’s...

, By Ina Strøm from Amnesty Norway ,   , , Resettlement is a lifeline open to some of the world’s most vulnerable refugees. A young family from Syria tells us what a huge difference moving to Norway has made in their lives. , “The Norwegian authorities deliberately scheduled the call on...

By Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International A generation from now, schoolchildren will be shown the image of a drowned three-year-old lying face down on a beach. They will look on in stunned silence, transfixed by this boy who could easily have been their little brother or a younger...

The EU takes one step forward, with a long way left to go. EU leaders have taken a positive step forward by agreeing to share responsibility for 120,000 asylum-seekers. But this alone won’t solve the humanitarian emergency unfolding on Europe’s doorstep. Ignoring loud alarm bells rung...