Children as Refugees
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Millions of people are uprooted as a consequence of armed conflict and human rights violations seeking safety abroad or within their own country. More than half of an estimated 20 million refugees and displaced persons around the world today are children.
The following are photographs of children around the world, who have been displaced. The photos are from the UN Photo Library archive collection.
Afghan Children make up a large percentage of the population at Roghani Refugee camp in Chaman, a Pakisani border town.
UN Photo #210483C
A young child with her father, is one of the residents at Maslakh Camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Afghanistan.
UN Photo #210808C
A mother with her children at the Zam Zam camp in the Dafur region of Sudan.
UN Photo NICA #14562 by Eskinder Debebe
A boy at Zam Zam camp in Sudan.
UN Photo NICA #14567 by Eskinder Debebe
Two boys at a refugee camp in Western Sahara.
UN Photo #ESD805 by Evan Schneider
Two girls play at a refugee camp in Western Sahara.
UN Photo #ESD809 by Evan Schneider
Liberian refugees in a transit camp in Abdjan.
UN Photo NICA #32504 by Eskinder Debebe
Children at the Roghani Refugee Camp in Chaman, Pakistan. Children and ayoung people make up a large percentage of the population at this camp.
UN Photo #210507d
A boy who fled the fighting in Rwanda, rests in a camp in Goma, Zaire.
UN Photo #186783 by J. Isaac
Two Kosovar refugee boys carry their family's bread rations, in Kukes, Albania.
UN Photo #202477C
More than 200,000 ethnic Albanians were displaced inside Kosovo (March 1998). These children live in a makeshift shelter in the wooded hills near Nekovce.
UN Photo #202451C
A young refugee girl with a food ration
stands at a table at the temporary facility in Karlovac, Croatia
UN Photo #159244C
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