On 2023 World Day of the Migrant and Refugee, Pope Francis reminds us that the decision to migrate should always be free.

In September, classrooms and school desks repopulate with children and teachers, classmates get together and the first lessons slowly begin. However, it is not like that everywhere. This year in Chad, going to school is a big challenge for displaced children.

A ray of hope shone for Fawad when he started attending an accelerated learning programme in a camp for displaced persons in Kabul with the aim of enrolling in formal schools in the future.

Digital skills courses in Kakuma refugee camp enable women, like Cheruto to carve out their own independence.

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is happy to announce that Superior General Fr Arturo Sosa SJ has appointed Br Michael Schöpf SJ as the new JRS International Director.

Being a displaced person makes it difficult to start a new life in Thailand amidst restrictions and limitations. Among them is Noor, who obtained a scholarship in Bangkok to change the course of her life.

Hiba Salem, a Researcher for the Pedro Arrupe Fellowship in Forced Migration, explained to JRS why education is important in contexts of displacement.

“Always put the human person at the centre”: this is the guiding principle of humanitarian action according to Ayo, one of the project coordinators of the JRS Nigeria team.

Nine years after the ISIS attack, the consequences of the genocide against Yazidis are not over for Sanaa and her family.