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July 28, 2016
Becoming a refugee is not a choice
Gillian Slovo is a celebrated novelist, playwright and memoirist. She fled South Africa in 1964 with…
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July 28, 2016
I’ve just requalified as an NHS doctor thanks to the Refugee Council
Dr. Charles Dotou is a Consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist from Senegal, who has just retrained to work…
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July 28, 2016
I was desperate for my daughters just to survive
Aziz Anzabi was a university professor at the University of Tehran in Iran. After the election…
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July 28, 2016
We will always appreciate the support of the British people
Dr. Nasimi fled to the UK speaking no English. Now he runs a large…
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July 28, 2016
I’m so grateful to UK for giving me the chance to learn & achieve
Emina fled to the UK from Sarajevo in the 1990s. After completing a Masters at Oxford,…
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July 28, 2016
Freedom, for me, is the most important thing
I couldn’t live a lie, but the alternative was truly dangerous. Being a gay man in…
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July 28, 2016
I fled to the UK in 1956. This is not the welcome I remember
George Szirtes is a multi- award winning Hungarian poet and translator. He fled to the UK…
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July 28, 2016
Twice forced into exile
Humberto and Gabriella fled Chile in the 1970s after Humberto was detained and tortured under General…
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July 28, 2016
I am a refugee. But first and foremost, I am a human being
Paul Lorber fled Czechoslovakia in 1968 following Soviet invasion. His parents, who had survived concentration camps,…
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July 28, 2016
Refugees have so much to give us
Raju Bhatt was expelled from Uganda at 15 along with 80,000 other Ugandan Asians. In the…
