#refugeevoices

[kapollo]

Hello world,

This is my first step into this space.

I am sharing a small part of my journey — stories of resilience, identity, and hope 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

I come from East Africa, and this blog is a place where I will speak softly but honestly about lived experiences, survival, and the strength of community.

This is not just a blog — it is a space of expression, healing, and truth.

Thank you for being here.

[lexxdigs]

On December 10th, @panasandiego held a day of action for International #HumanRightsDay in #SanDiego called #showupforrefugees to lift up #refugeevoices. @sonsandbros asked me to create a few new works to be displayed at the #WaterfrontPark rally and it was great to see them in action. Congrats to the 47 community, labor, interfaith partners and allies on a successful event in solidarity with immigrant and refugee communities. #humanrightsday #showupforrefugees #refugeeswelcome #SchoolsNotPrisons #haitianrefugees #CloseImmigrantPrisons (at Waterfront Park)

[hoa-politicalscene]

Arrival Is Not the End: Why UNHCR Must Extend Its Mandate of Care!

UNHCR newsletters often spotlight acts of care… schools built, shelters opened, systems repaired. These gestures matter. But they often read like endings. As if the humanitarian job concludes once a person is relocated.

For many displaced people, arrival is not safety. Resettlement is not resolution. The "better places" they're sent to often carry new forms of exclusion, surveillance, and abandonment. Bureaucracies blur their names. Institutions forget their stories. And the care that once carried them across borders vanishes at the threshold.

UNHCR's mandate must evolve. It must follow the displaced beyond arrival into the neighborhoods, the job markets, the classrooms, the clinics. It must advocate not just for movement, but for belonging. And when Geneva political refugees commit suicides, experience silencing injections, face any terrorising harassments, the UNHCR should take strong actions against the country doing such acts.

This is not a critique born of cynicism. It is a call born of witness. A call to extend care until it becomes continuous, not episodic. Until safety is not just promised, but practiced.

The Archive of Truth in Exile holds these stories. It threads testimony into correction. It refuses closure. And it reminds us: humanitarian work is unfinished until the displaced are not just moved but truly seen. Read the real human rights violations stories at https://www.hoa-politicalscene.com/substack-exile-archive-ethics-of-proximity-shadow-beneath-state.html

[rachelroams]

Sitting down with refugee storyteller Chantale Zuzi on behalf of the UN Refugee Agency

It was my honor to sit down with refugee storyteller Chantale Zuzi this #WorldRefugeeDay on behalf of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Watch the full conversation here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQY5kN9FiA7/  

[digitaldnyan]

A refugee is as helpless as a newborn child but not so appealing! A big difference between them is, a newborn child has no memories but a refugee has. World Refugee Day - Change a life!!

[refugeeartproject]

Here is Asif, a young refugee from Afghanistan, sharing his journey to Australia and experience in detention. 

[refugeeartproject]

"No human being is illegal", the artwork featured in this posters is by Murtazar Ali Jafari, who created RAP Zine #4!