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A lifetime championing refugees, with Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Awake At Night by Tulin Battikhi

Dec 19, 202544:36News & Politics

Filippo Grandi has devoted more than three decades to easing the suffering of refugees: "My pride after all these years is that the center of this effort of my lifetime has been on people, and especially on the people th...

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