Where are Ukraine’s refugees going? The UN says that more than 4.3 million people have left Ukraine:

Poland has taken in 2,514,504 refugees, Romania 662,751, Hungary 404,021, Moldova 401,704, Russia 350,632, Slovakia 304,983 and Belarus 18,060.

What can get lost in the magnitude of the World refugee crisis are the real, Human stories of loss, fear, hope and survival that every refugee carries with them, wherever they go.

What can get lost are the real stories of humiliation, starvation, persecution and journeys of life and death.

Over the past two years, around 1.5 million migrants have fled fighting and poverty across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

The international community is condemning these refugees to an unbearable existence and thousands to death by failing to provide essential humanitarian protection.

The refugee crisis is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century, the response of the international community has been a shameful failure.

In 2017 alone more than 3,000 people have died in the attempt to cross the Mediterranean.

More than 7,000 children who reached Italy, an incredible 90% were unaccompanied, leaving them vulnerable to sexual exploitation.

The International Organisation of Migration estimates that some 10,000 refugees have disappeared on this journey. It is proved to be a risky game of life and death.

The politics of exhaustion refers to the ways in which exhaustion is employed as a tool of governance and control, and to the ways in which it is experienced as a daily reality by displaced people.

Refugees speak of ‘being so tired’ and of having been ‘completely exhausted’ by repeated evictions, detention, push-backs, deportations, untreated health problems, below-standard living conditions, the continuous threat and reality of violence.

As well as by continued uncertainty both of daily life and of their future prospects in Europe.