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World Refugee Day celebrations in Thailand. © UNHCR |
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Raising Awareness
Raising awareness about the plight of refugees is an integral part of our work. On the following pages you will find more information on special events, educational tools and the work of our Goodwill Ambassadors that help promote refugee issues.
Have you read Angelina Jolie's impressions about her most recent field mission?
Visit our Goodwill Ambassador pages and find out more about the work of UNHCR's celebrity advocates.
The UN General Assembly has designated June 20 as World Refugee Day, and every year events around the world are organized to raise awareness and funds for refugees. To find out about events in your country please visit our World Refugee Day page.
Do you have a nominee for this year's Nansen Refugee Award? Visit the Award's site and find out more about the award and how to nominate someone for the Nansen Medal.
If you are a teacher, please visit www.playagainstallodds.com
. It is
an online game, Against All Odds, created by UNHCR Regional Office for the
Baltic and Nordic countries, to increase students’ awareness
and knowledge about refugee situations by putting players in the position of
a refugee. Along the way, players can learn more in the web facts section,
where they can read stories and watch films about individual refugees. In addition
to providing moving first-hand accounts, the web facts section offers a variety
of other important refugee information articles and resources.
Against All Odds also has a teacher guide which section provides
various lesson plans, learning activities, and other educational
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A taste of life as a refugee - a game online in several languages.
“Not Just Numbers” is a toolkit in several languages, including English,
Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Swedish. It is about migration and
asylum in the European Union produced by the International Organization for
Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
As European societies become more multi-cultural, the need to raise awareness and promote understanding of the many reasons for which people choose or are forced to leave their own countries grows.
The toolkit provides young people with the opportunity to understand that behind each anonymous statistic related to migration and asylum there is a human face and a personal story. In doing so it also addresses issues related to discrimination and xenophobia.
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