In a ninth-floor office in lower Manhattan, thousands of miles from conflict zones in the Middle East and North Africa, a group of young lawyers provide legal advice via Skype and email to refugees desperate to escape war and chaos.

The callers are scared. They have fled their homes and families. Often they are victims of death threats, kidnapping and targeted attacks in places where sectarian violence and torture of civilians are the norm.

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