An Eritrean refugee at home in Tel-Aviv, Israel, after his father abandoned the family. (Public Radio International)

Fljurija and her daughter, Elvira,  at home in Serbia. (UNDP) 

Protesters use fireworks, molotov cocktails and rocks to attack police in the Alevi enclave of Okmeydani after an Alevi man named Ogur Kurt was killed by a police bullet, 2014. 

Syrian refugees flee by minibus from Syria to Turkey at the beginning of the conflict in the spring of 2011. 

Family members with 19 year-old Wanza Haji, a Yazidi woman from Sinjar who experienced an emotional breakdown that left her in a catatonic state after her father commited suicide when ISIS took over their village. 

Police launch tear gas against protesters during Gezi Park protest in Istanbul in 2013. (Wall Street Journal) 

A Cham-Muslim woman rows her family's fishing boat on the Tonle Sap River near Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 2012. (Time Magazine) 

Assyrian Christian Militia in Alqosh on patrol near the ISIS held territory in Iraqi's Nineveh plain, 2014. 

Refugee families stuck at Macedonian border react as police mass around them, ready to launch tear gas. (Washington Post) 

Children from Deir ez-Zor, Syria, taunt Yazidi children from Iraq at a refugee camp in Greece. (Public Radio International) 

Asylum-seekers waiting to be moved from Piraeus Port in Athens. 

Fans wrest towards the end of the camel-wrestling festival in Selcuk, Turkey, 2014. (Mashable)  

Children from a Roma settlement in Serbia. 

Syrian-Kurdish asylum-seekers living in a camp in Ritsona, Greece. 

An Eritrean refugee attending church in Tel-Aviv, Israel, after her husband abandoned the family. (Public Radio International)

Peshmerga at the frontline in Makmour, Iraqi Kurdistan 

Fighters man a base just a few kilometers from the ISIS frontline in an area that was recently recaptured from militants, 2014.