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Don't
forget to enter your students in the 2007
World Refugee Day Photo Contest under the patronage
of UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie. Deadline for
entries is April 30, 2007.
Students
are invited to submit their photos around the theme, “A new
home, a new life.” Photos should illustrate the United States’
long tradition of welcoming refugees and the contribution refugees
have made to their new communities.
Winners
will be flown to Washington, DC, for the World Refugee Day ceremony
on June 20. To
learn more, read the contest rules and guidelines.
2. Nearly 4 million Iraqi
refugees and displaced face violence and uncertainty
UNHCR
estimates that approximately 2 million Iraqi refugees are now
in neighboring countries in the region, many of whom were uprooted
before 2003. Syria has more than 1 million Iraqis and Jordan
an estimated 750,000. Both countries are struggling to absorb
the millions of refugees and need more support from the international
community. There are also an estimated 1.9 million Iraqis who
remain displaced inside their own country, many of them in increasingly
desperate conditions.
To
build support among the international community and find ways
to address the needs of the millions of people uprooted by the
conflict in Iraq, UNHCR has invited officials from nearly 200
governments to a conference in Geneva April 17-18. Learn
more about the Iraq refugee situation and the April conference.
3.
News to use in the classroom
Angola: Repatriation
to Angola officially ends after 410,000 refugees go home
UN
High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres attended
a recent ceremony hosted by Angola at which regional leaders
officially marked the successful conclusion of the largest repatriation
of refugees in Africa this decade.
Learn
more about the Angola refugee situation.
Cambodia: Prominent
Burmese journalist leaves Cambodia for the United States
Burmese journalist Maung Maung Kyaw Win will soon be able to
write freely after years of working under a pseudonym and facing
persecution in his native Myanmar. Kyaw Win and his family flew
out of Phnom Penh's Pochentong Airport bound for Chicago and
a new life in the United States, which accepted him for resettlement
after referral by UNHCR and where his sister lives.
Learn more
about the Cambodia refugee situation.
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