Oct 26, 2021
Seventy years since the 1951 Refugee Convention was signed, forced displacement is at record levels – more than 82 million people at the end of 2020, and rising every year for the past decade.
In the final episode of this series of Forced To Flee, we look at the long-term options for refugees, asylum-seekers and the...
Oct 19, 2021
For many refugees trying to work out how to rebuild their lives, solutions can be hard to come by. In “New Beginnings”, we meet refugees who have managed to start over even when rules, regulations and public attitudes seemed stacked against them.
From Latin America to Europe to New Zealand, whether cooking up new...
Oct 12, 2021
“Line of Fire” is the second of two episodes that delve into some of the major emergencies of the past 70 years.
We begin with one of the most challenging humanitarian crises that UNHCR has faced: the devastating Bosnian wars of the 1990s, with a particular focus on the airlift that saved countless lives during the...
Oct 5, 2021
“Emergency” is the first of two episodes on Forced To Flee that take a look at some of the biggest humanitarian crises since the Second World War. Starting with the Soviet crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, we see how large-scale human displacement gradually came to affect more and more regions of the world,...