Theatre director and Syrian refugee Bashar* always dreamed of having creative control over his art and being able to express himself freely. Now, he puts on his own productions.

According to the National Strategy on Integration, there are over 650,000 third country nationals in Greece, including refugees and asylum seekers. Without Greek language skills, they are at a disadvantage in navigating the labour market. Women and youth are especially vulnerable and have particular challenges in finding employment.

On 4 February 2016, the international community agreed on a ‘comprehensive new approach’ to address the protracted Syria crisis at the “Supporting Syria and the Region” Conference in London. Donors, and neighbouring countries, which host the vast majority of those who have fed Syria, committed to significant financial pledges and policy changes to improve the lives of refugees and host communities.

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.

Did you know the doughnut machine was created by a resourceful refugee? As Bake Off returns to our screens, we take a look at a delicious recipe to make the dough.

Fresh from filming the latest season of Showtime’s Homeland,actor and activist Mandy Patinkin traveled to Uganda this month with the International Rescue Committee to see what happens when refugees are given welcome. Along with his wife Kathryn and son Isaac he met resilient, resourceful people who are restarting their lives in a country that has made a choice to build bridges, not walls.

Jamalat Abd al-Raouf al-Hariri fled the war in Syria with her husband and children nearly two years ago. Since then, the family has been living in Zaatari, Jordan’s largest Syrian refugee camp.

The Norwegian Refugee Council and the International Rescue Committee issued a scathing report outlining the recent humanitarian failures in Fallujah, Iraq as a direct consequence of the military operation to retake the city.