Seventy years since the 1951 Refugee Convention was signed, forced displacement is at record levels – more than 82 million people at the end of 2020, and rising every year for the past decade. In the final episode of this series of Forced To Fl

New Beginnings

Oct 19th, 2021 34m 39s

For many refugees trying to work out how to rebuild their lives, solutions can be hard to come by. In “New Beginnings”, we meet refugees who have managed to start over even when rules, regulations and public attitudes seemed stacked against th

Line of Fire

Oct 12th, 2021 31m 25s

“Line of Fire” is the second of two episodes that delve into some of the major emergencies of the past 70 years. We begin with one of the most challenging humanitarian crises that UNHCR has faced: the devastating Bosnian wars of the 1990s, with

Emergency

Oct 5th, 2021 30m 5s

“Emergency” is the first of two episodes on Forced To Flee that take a look at some of the biggest humanitarian crises since the Second World War. Starting with the Soviet crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, we see how large-scale human di

Pencils and Pictures

Sep 28th, 2021 31m 58s

For many young refugees, early memories of childhood are dominated by conflict, fear and the trauma of losing everything that is comforting and familiar – family, friends, school… In “Pencils and Pictures”, we meet two young refugees who encoun

Seeking Shelter

Sep 21st, 2021 38m 16s

From the world’s biggest refugee camp in Bangladesh, to a stroll down the Champs Elysées (not that one, the other one) to a hair-raising, 1,200-kilometre journey in search of a new start in a Colombian town… “Seeking Shelter” looks at how the f

Escape

Sep 14th, 2021 38m 22s

In the opening episode, we tell the story of two refugees who made very different journeys more than 35 years apart, but who faced many similar challenges in their efforts to escape conflict and persecution – including exploitation, abuse and d

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