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Weaving a Wicked Community – refugees find safe haven in London braiding salon

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Weaving a Wicked Community – refugees find safe haven in London braiding salon

In North London, a braiding salon owned by a Congolese refugee is a safe space for women and a community hub. When the owner received a call asking her to help to braid a wig for the film Wicked in just 3 days, family, friends and staff came together.
Three women pose for a photo in a beauty salon

UNHCR helps to save lives and build better futures for the millions of people forced to flee their homes.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home.

Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.

We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.

Weaving a Wicked Community – refugees find safe haven in London braiding salon

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Great British Welcome
A Great British Welcome tells the story of how communities across the UK welcome people who have been forced to flee their homes.

Stories are told by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and photographed by Andrew Testa.
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Key facts and figures

117.3 million people worldwide are forcibly displaced.

at the end of 2023 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.

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UNHCR Annual Global Trends Report

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UNHCR annual Global Trends report 2021

UNHCR's Global Trends report presents key statistical trends and the latest numbers of refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless persons.

If ongoing conflicts remain unresolved and the risks of new ones erupting are not reined in, one aspect that will define the twenty-first century will be the continuously growing numbers of people forced to flee and the increasingly dire options available to them.

View the Global Trends report

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