18 Heartbreaking Pictures Of Refugees Around The World Who Fled Their Homes Due To War And Famine

Today is World Refugee Day and it aims to honors the courage of people who are forced to flee their homeland. By the end of 2018, almost 70.8 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations. 37,000 people were newly displaced every day in 2018, according to the report by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. It is heartbreaking to see such a huge number fleeing their own homes. Here'a a compilation of the powerful and heartbreaking images that shows how much refugees suffer.

1. Pakistani Hindu Families in Delhi

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2. Venezuelan migrant Iris Mejias, 68, poses for a picture with her granddaughter Victoria.

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3. Afghan refugees who fled their homeland due to war and famine, are on their way to collect clean water in slums of Lahore, Pakistan.

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4. A displaced child eats inside a school on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

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5. Rohingya refugee camps at Madanpur Khadar in Delhi.

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6. An LGBT refugee from Congo, center-left, joins other LGBT refugees and their supporters living in Nairobi, Kenya.

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7. Migrants From Asia and Africa rest as they shelter under a tent erected at camp 'Vucjak' on the outskirts of the city of Bihac, in northern Bosnia.

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8. Cuban migrants wait outside the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR) in Tapachula.

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9. Palestinian refugee children play in the street in Al-Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp, near Amman.

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10. Migrants unable to find shelter sleep in the street outside the offices of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance.

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11. Central American migrants wait outside the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (COMAR) in Tapachula.

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12. A displaced Yemeni child who fled the fightings is pictured at a makeshift camp in the district of Abs, in Yemen's northwestern Hajjah province.

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13. Syrian refugee children lie down on a mat on the floor in an olive grove at the north of Idlib Countryside.

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14. Children pose at the Skaramangas refugee camp, on the outskirts of Athens.

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15. Palestinian girl stands in the doorway of their house in a slum on the outskirts of Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip.

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16. A girl from an Afghan refugee family carries bottles to be filled from a nearby tap in a low-income neighborhood in Lahore.

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17. Rohingya refugee camps at Madanpur Khadar.

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18. Migrants wait for food and clothes at the migrant camp Vucjak, in Bihac area, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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