Palestinian writer adapts his satire Application 39 for a new stage production including future fiction and his own family's ...

In the lead-up to World Refugee Day, celebrated on 20 June, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) invites media ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday aged 88, inspired International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach to create the Olympic refugee team, the German said in a tribute. Bach said the IOC had ...

The Olympics masked as much as they revealed ... and only 15 moved on to Adelaide to build new lives. Frustrated refugees set fire to South Australia’s Woomera facility, which former prime ...

The first Refugee Olympic Team was created by the IOC for the Olympic Games Rio 2016 in an endeavour to raise awareness of the magnitude of the refugee crisis. For Tokyo 2020, a much larger team of 29 ...

“The crowd went crazy when I stepped onto the podium,” boxer Cindy Ngamba says, picturing the moment she made history this year as the first athlete in the Refugee Olympic Team to win an Olympic medal ...

Washington, DC – 12 August 2024 – The Paris Summer Olympics draw to a close with many individual and team achievements – including the first medal won by a member of the UN Refugee Team.

This medal is for all the women of Afghanistan and all the refugees of the world ... Afghanistan and was allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics for her country following a plea from the ...

She had wanted gold, but her bronze was the first Olympic medal ever won by a refugee team member. "There are many other refugees all around the world that are not even athletes, they go through ...

Living up to her middle name, she became the first-ever athlete to win a medal for the Refugee Olympic Team, claiming bronze in the women’s boxing 75kg class at the Summer Olympics in Paris.