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.

This World Refugee Day, six actors have teamed up with the International Rescue Committee and The Globe Theatre to share Shakespeare's rallying cry for humanity, The Strangers' Case.

The stakes are high and we need your help to ensure vulnerable refugees can move forward with their lives.

On Aug 4, 1940, a young editor named Varian Fry boarded a transatlantic flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York on his way to German-occupied France to lead a daring rescue operation.

400 years ago a group of writers collaborated on a historical play called Sir Thomas More. The script included one of the earliest and most impassioned defences of a compassionate refugee policy, an extract known as The Strangers’ Case, widely believed to be written by William Shakespeare.

Yasmin Kadi, a singer and actor from Sierra Leone describes why being part of the film meant so much to her.

In recent weeks, the United States’ new immigration policy has separated thousands of immigrant and refugee children from their parents as families seek refuge from persecution or violence. Here’s what you need to know about the situation.

Passports. Birth certificates. Cherished photographs. Beloved family members. Friends. Pets.

More than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border since early April as the result of a “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. Families seeking refuge from persecution and violence in Central America have been ripped apart, with parents being sent to federal prison and their children being placed in government detention facilities.

For Grace Awate, happiness means not hearing gun shots anymore.