Refugees
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News & Reports
Yemeni Microbiologist Fathiah Zakham Seeks Better Diagnostics for Tuberculosis
Fathiah Zakham has won international honors for her work to find faster, more accurate tools to fight drug-resistant strains of…
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Nobel Laureate Ardem Patapoutian’s Path to the Prize Started in Beirut
Ardem Patapoutian, a co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine, was born in Lebanon. War shifted his studies and…
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Afghanistan’s All-Female Robotics Team Continues Building Robots in Qatar
Qatar Foundation provided pre-university scholarships to nine members of the team who fled to Doha in August. They’re already busy…
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A Bootcamp in Jordan Helps Young Refugees Find Careers in IT
RebootKamp’s “durable skills accelerator program” has helped 400 Jordanian youth, most of them refugees, learn high-demand skills.
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Iraq Joins Nations Issuing Qualifications Passports for Refugee Students
The United Nations initiative aims to make it easier for refugees to get their academic credentials recognized in host countries.
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Syrian Refugees Build ‘Learning Ecosystems’ to Access Higher Education
Networks of informal contacts and resources are helping refugee students in Lebanon and Jordan gain access to a university education.
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Tips & Resources
Success Stories: How Scholarships Helped 3 Students Launch Careers
As SPARK celebrates awarding its 10,000th scholarship, three former students share how the assistance they received helped them thrive.
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Helping Refugees Rebuild Their Lives in Host Countries
Providing legal job opportunities for refugees helps them rebuild their lives and benefits host countries too, aid agencies say.
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UNHCR and Duolingo Aim to Help More Refugees Enroll in Higher Education
The U.N. refugee agency and the language-learning app are teaming up to make professional university counseling available to refugees worldwide.
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Opinion
Gender-Specific Training Helps Women Entrepreneurs in Vulnerable Economies
SPARK, a development NGO, and UN Women are offering gender-specific training to help women entrepreneurs in countries set back by…
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