This Refugee Week and World Refugee Day, we are reaching back in history to tell the world: Now is the time to stand with refugees.

Four years ago, 21-year-old Alganesh had everything to look forward to. Newly married and having recently qualified with a diploma in management, she moved from the Ethiopian countryside to reunite with her husband in Soge, a town in the west of the country

You have listened to me, more than my own sisters ever have,” says Duaa while sharing her moving story. She is one of some 70 Syrian refugees who took part in a series of art therapy workshops in three Jordanian cities and Zaatari camp. The workshops were organized by the International Rescue Committee, with support from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO), to create an opportunity for war-stricken Syrians to deal with their trauma, express their feelings, and reconnect with their hopes and wishes for the future.

This Mental Health Awareness Week it’s important that we don’t forget refugees and those who have had to flee their homes.

When war engulfed Syria, Mahmoud dodged bullets and bombs every day just to continue his education. Now the 13-year-old refugee has become one of the top students in his new school in Lebanon.

An estimated 10,000 have been killed and over two million forced to flee their homes since civil war erupted in South Sudan on this day in 2013. Despite an — albeit fragile — peace deal signed in August 2015, intense fighting continues to flare up on a regular basis ever since.

In 1996 violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo forced people to flee their homes, often with little more than the clothes on their backs.

The war in Syria took a tremendous psychological toll on Samaher and her family. Here's a look at how an IRC women's centre in Jordan helped Samaher, her daughter and mother find comfort and hope.

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