World Refugee Day: UNHCR to mark 60th anniversary
UNHCR is launching a six-month campaign aimed at promoting stories of individual refugees
PESHAWAR:
To mark the 60th anniversary of World Refugee Day that falls on June 20 every year, the UNHCR is launching a six-month campaign aimed at promoting stories of individual refugees and other forcibly displaced people. According to a press release issued on Saturday, the campaign features a number of media products including a video by the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, a new online video experience called “1 Life, 1 Story” in which refugees tell their own stories, and related publicity materials inviting members of the public to get involved and do `1 Thing to help refugees’, such as follow UNHCR on Facebook and Twitter. UNHCR has also invited media organisations to engage and support the campaign via their news and blog sites.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 19th, 2011.
To mark the 60th anniversary of World Refugee Day that falls on June 20 every year, the UNHCR is launching a six-month campaign aimed at promoting stories of individual refugees and other forcibly displaced people. According to a press release issued on Saturday, the campaign features a number of media products including a video by the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, a new online video experience called “1 Life, 1 Story” in which refugees tell their own stories, and related publicity materials inviting members of the public to get involved and do `1 Thing to help refugees’, such as follow UNHCR on Facebook and Twitter. UNHCR has also invited media organisations to engage and support the campaign via their news and blog sites.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 19th, 2011.