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For World Refugee Day in 2020, the UNHCR – the United Nations’ Refugee Agency – highlighted the diversity of the refugee experience and the lives refugees lead on a daily basis, including their contributions to society.
A Venezuelan asylum seeker in Peru, working as a doctor.
A Syrian refugee in

Tokyo 2020 | Olympic Games

Rami Anis

How a refugee contributes to society

Rami Anis is bidding to compete in his second Olympic Games in Tokyo having been part of the first Refugee Olympic Team at Rio 2016.
Butterfly swimmer Anis represented Syria at the 2009 and 2011 World Championships, before fleeing the country as the bombs rained down on his home town

Rami Anis with Tegla Loroupe at the 2017 Laureus World Sports Awards

Introducing Rami Anis – IOC Refugee Athlete Scholarship-holder

United States of America

Simone

Simone Biles - Olympics.com

Sweden

Armand

Armand Duplantis - Olympics.com

Mikaela

Mikaela SHIFFRIN

Ilia

Ilia Malinin - Olympics.com

Rami ANIS

Rami

Rio 2016

Rami ANIS

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How a refugee contributes to society

Introducing Rami Anis – IOC Refugee Athlete Scholarship-holder

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