Today is World Refugee Day. The theme for 2005 is "courage in the face of
flight and exile." To read or listen to a selection of accounts from refugees
about their experiences, visit the following pages:
http://www.womenscommission.org/special/WRD2005.shtml
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/doclist?page=events&id=42b28f242
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/events/opendoc.htm?tbl=EVENTS&id=42b02af34
http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1111&subm=19&ssm=31&area=Investigate
For a list of activities and events commemorating refugees around the world,
please visit http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/events?id=3e7f46e04.
June 20 also marks the start of Refugee Week in the UK. Visit
http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/ for more information.
Other examples of World Refugee Day resources include:
"Internal Refugees" Need Attention on World Refugee Day -
http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/cohenr/20050620.htm
Refugees have rights - http://web.amnesty.org/pages/refugees-index-eng
World Refugee Day: Migrating women and children are most vulnerable to sexual
violence - http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?objectid=9910E9BD-
E018-0C72-0921466D968833E6&component=toolkit.article&method=full_html
World Refugee Day: Refugees International Reflects on the Needs of Displaced
People -
http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/6129?PHPSESSID=f1f022c0dcde1c3435ad3aa521773584
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