In pictures: World Refugee Day

Dawn.com Published June 20, 2012
A South Sudanese refugee boards a bus taking them to Ben Gurion International airport, near Tel Aviv, where they will be deported to South Sudan. ? Photo by AFP.
A South Sudanese refugee boards a bus taking them to Ben Gurion International airport, near Tel Aviv, where they will be deported to South Sudan. ? Photo by AFP.
An Afghan girl sits with her mother at The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration centre on the outskirts of Peshawar. ? Photo by AFP
An Afghan girl sits with her mother at The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration centre on the outskirts of Peshawar. ? Photo by AFP
A refugee from Blue Nile exits what has been her home for the past 3 months, in Doro refugee camp, Upper Nile State, South Sudan. ? Photo by AFP
A refugee from Blue Nile exits what has been her home for the past 3 months, in Doro refugee camp, Upper Nile State, South Sudan. ? Photo by AFP
A Rohingya Muslim woman sits at the entrance of her home at an unauthorized camp that houses Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled Myanmar during an ethnic strife in 1992, at Kutupalong, Bangladesh. ? Photo by AP
A Rohingya Muslim woman sits at the entrance of her home at an unauthorized camp that houses Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled Myanmar during an ethnic strife in 1992, at Kutupalong, Bangladesh. ? Photo by AP
Syrian-Kurdish refugees sit in a tent at Domiz refugee camp, 20 km south-east of Dohuk city, which hosts Syrian-Kurds of all stripes, from soldiers who did not want to kill their countrymen to people trying to escape the violence across the border in Kurdistan in northern Iraq. ? Photo by AFP
Syrian-Kurdish refugees sit in a tent at Domiz refugee camp, 20 km south-east of Dohuk city, which hosts Syrian-Kurds of all stripes, from soldiers who did not want to kill their countrymen to people trying to escape the violence across the border in Kurdistan in northern Iraq. ? Photo by AFP
Refugees sitting under a shelter at a transit site where tens of thousands of people have gathered in South Sudan's Upper Nile state near the border with Sudan.- Photo by AFP
Refugees sitting under a shelter at a transit site where tens of thousands of people have gathered in South Sudan's Upper Nile state near the border with Sudan.- Photo by AFP
A refugee child sleeps in a hammock in a public school in the port city of Aden, now being used as the living quarters for internally displaced families. ? Photo by AFP
A refugee child sleeps in a hammock in a public school in the port city of Aden, now being used as the living quarters for internally displaced families. ? Photo by AFP
A Yemeni refugee girl carries her sibling in the grounds of a public school in the port city of Aden, now being used as the living quarters for internally displaced families who had to flee their homes when Al-Qaeda militants swept into southern Abyan province. ? Photo byAFP
A Yemeni refugee girl carries her sibling in the grounds of a public school in the port city of Aden, now being used as the living quarters for internally displaced families who had to flee their homes when Al-Qaeda militants swept into southern Abyan province. ? Photo byAFP

Pictures of refugee from around the world as World Refugee Day is celebrated.

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Wish
Jun 20, 2012 09:44am
Awesome presentation. No one sitting at home can imagine the miseries suffered by refugees.
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