A refugee, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is a person "forced to flee their own country and seek safety in another country. They are unable to return to their own coun
Konrad Schumann, an East German border guard, fleeing East Germany towards West Germany in 1962
Darfur refugee camp in Chad, 2005
Hundreds of Venezuelan refugees waiting to have their passports stamped at an Ecuadorian border crossing, 2018
Refugees from Herzegovina, painting by Uroš Predić in 1889 made in the aftermath of the Herzegovina Uprising (1875–77)