Cartoonist Hossein Rezaei was evacuated on one of the last planes leaving Afghanistan before the Taliban seized power. For the past 10 years, he has been using his drawings to document life in his home country.
Italian actor Germano Gentile has gotten a lot of attention for his starring role in 'Il Legionario'. The award-winning film tells the story of a young police officer who is torn between his work and his family when he's ordered to clear a building occupied by migrants, including his mother and brother.
Hossien Rezaye arrived in Amsterdam on one of the final flights out of Kabul. A combination of timing and luck allowed him a narrow escape from the Taliban as the extremists encroached on Afghanistan's capital. He was evacuated to the Netherlands with help from The Cartoon Movement – an Amsterdam-based NGO – and the Dutch Foreign Ministry.
A giant puppet of a young refugee girl is part of "The Walk," an art initiative that traveled 8,000 kilometers in support of refugees. She is now a special guest at the Open Festival in the Netherlands.
Can music change perceptions about migrants and refugees? The Citizens of the World Choir in London is trying to do precisely that. Its members welcomed Little Amal to London -- at a very special venue.
Some Afghan women refugees who fled to India a few years ago have found livelihood in a startup that aims to build sustainable communities of artisans. The women who work here have faced tremendous hardships in the past. Now they worry for their relatives back home under the Taliban rule.
"We are also artists" is a new exhibition launched by a collective of migrants and residents in the Calais area. The organizers say it's a way to remind us that "migrants" are above all human beings.
Veteran mayor Leoluca Orlando has transformed the Sicilian capital from a Mafia stronghold into a beacon of migrants' rights, and opera has been key. But Palermo's inclusive vision may be about to die.
For Carmela -- born in Palermo to Ghanaian parents but then adopted by a white, Italian family -- the Rainbow Choir has opened a door straight to the heart of Italian culture and society. But even this innovative scheme, a flagship project of the Consulta della Cultura, is no skeleton key to being accepted in Italy.
A giant puppet representing a Syrian girl is set to travel 8,000 kilometers – from a Turkish city near the Syrian border to England – to raise awareness for the plight of refugee children. Several of her puppeteers are refugees.
The UN refugee agency declared the winners of an art competition for schoolchildren in Greece this week. Among them is an 11-year-old Syrian refugee. The goal of the contest was to send a message about the importance of unity, solidarity and equality.
A group of scouts from the city of Taranto in southern Italy has met with asylum seekers to mark World Thinking Day. The scouts donated "tiles of peace", which will be installed in three symbolic locations of the city.