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Norina - Afghan from Iran · Iran
I Just Want to Be Free
I had no rights, no freedom to choose my path.
![MENTAL HEALTH EDREES](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/MENTAL-HEALTH-EDREES.jpg)
Edress - Afghan from Iran · Iran
Arrival: Mental Health
"Refugees experience all kinds of trauma prior to, during, and after their journeys to safety..."
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Rohingya Child - Unaccompanied Children · Myanmar
Arrival: Physical Health
"Refugees have often known extreme hunger, sleeplessness, frostbite, sunstroke, ... various sicknesses and ailments that have gone untreated during long periods preceding their flight and during the journey itself..."
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Stateless Refugees - Cox Bazaar · Myanmar
Arrival: Limbo
"Of the 71 million forcibly displaced people in the world, 41 million are displaced within their own countries..."
![WHAT WE CARRY Rasheeda](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/WHAT-WE-CARRY-LAYLA.jpg)
Rasheeda · Iran
The Journey: What We Carry
I pray most of all for my children who are still in Afghanistan and Iran.
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Haniah - West Africa · Ghana
Arrival: Law
"He left me with two babies and went to Libya ... I wemt to Libya, but I didn't find him."
![ARRIVAL SUPER STORY PORTRAIT REFUGEE WOMAN TRAIN](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/ARRIVAL-SUPER-STORY-PORTRAIT-REFUGEE-WOMAN-TRAIN.jpg)
Saheba - AFghan from Iran · Iran
Arrival
"I only want to be treated like a human being. I just want to be free and to live in peace and safety..."
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Rohingya Women · Myanmar
Why We Flee: The Rohingya Women
Whilst safe from the Myanmar military in the camps, Rohingya women remain at risk due to gender-based and sexual violence, discrimination, human trafficking and health problems
![APRIL: Asylum | Gangs and Drug Cartels Eduardo](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/GANGS-AND-DRUG-CARTELS-EDUARDO.jpg)
Eduardo · Honduras
Why We Flee: Gangs and Cartels
We lived peacefully. But when gang members wanted me to sell drugs in the middle of my fruit, I said, “No.”
![PERSECUTION GHEZAL](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/PERSECUTION-GHEZAL.jpg)
Ghezal · Afghanistan
Why We Flee: The Taliban Says We are All Infidels
If you have a child, you will understand how I feel.
![OUR LIVES BEFORE Cox Bazar camp life](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/OUR-LIVES-BEFORE-Cox-Bazar-camp-life.jpg)
Myanmar
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Rohingya Children · Myanmar
Stateless and Homeless Through Birth
The first to see the magic - the last to lose hope
![ROYA AND MUNIR OUR LIVES BEFORE UNTHINKABLE LOVED ONE THREATENED](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/ROYA-AND-MUNIR_-OUR-LIVES-BEFORE-UNTHINKABLE-LOVED-ONE-THREATENED.jpg)
Roya · Afghanistan
Our Lives Before: The Unthinkable Happened
In the constitution, on paper, women have equal rights with men, but in reality, they have no rights there.
![Adam Abdoali Jamal Suleiman OUR LIVES BEFORE no stories](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/Adam-Abdoali-Jamal-Suleiman-OUR-LIVES-BEFORE_-no-stories.jpg)
Sudan
On the Streets of Paris
Until contention, rumors of conflict, angry politics and war triggered fear and anxiety
![Amina Children 1](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/Amina-Children-1.png)
Amina · Syria
Belonging: A Math Teacher and a Mother
I have missed three years of their lives. I will never get them back.
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Ali · Afghanistan
The Journey: I Crossed the Mountainous Border
I kept thinking, "I will be dead; I'm not going to make it!"
![OUR LIVES BEFORE Leonard Bagalwa](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/OUR-LIVES-BEFORE-Leonard-Bagalwa.jpg)
Leonard · Democratic Republic of the Congo
Our Lives Before: Born a Survivor
Forced to be a rebel then a spy, Leonard was protected by the pygmies
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Amina · Syria
Leaving Aleppo
Amina is one of countless indomitable refugee mothers in the world
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