Dia Mundial do Refugiado 20-Junho

World Refugee Day 2014

World Refugee Day is held every year on June 20. It is a special day when the world takes time to recognize the resilience of forcibly displaced people throughout the world.

For World Refugee Day 2014, we will continue our global "1 Campaign", keeping with the theme: "1 family torn apart by war is too many".

Dia Mundial do Refugiado é comemorado todos os anos a20 de junho.  É  um dia especial em que o mundo pausa para  reconhecer a capacidade de resistência das pessoas deslocadas à  força em todo o mundo. 

No Dia Mundial do Refugiado de 2014, vamos continuar a nossa global "Campanha 1", mantendo-se com o tema: "1 família dilacerada pela guerra é demais".  Mais de metade dos refugiados de hoje são crianças. 

O Alto Comissariado das Nações Unidas para os Refugiados (ACNUR) é uma organização humanitária imparcial, apolítica mandatada pelas Nações Unidas para proteger os refugiados e buscar formas de ajudá-los a recomeçar suas vidas. A actividade do ACNUR está centrada em três áreas fundamentais: a protecção jurídica, de reinstalação e de informação pública.

Fonte: http://unhcr.org.au/unhcr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=216&Itemid=103

Remembering how rights were lost, one by one

Large maps of a once-thriving Jewish neighborhood of Berlin in 1933 and in 1993 are the focus of a pair of lightboxes created by Berlin-based conceptual artists and now installed in East Pyne on the Princeton University Campus. A lightbox detail is shown in the images at top, which depict Nazi laws that progressively placed restrictions on the Jewish residents.
Places of Remembrance, a pair of large lightboxes by Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock of Berlin, have been installed on the second floor of East Pyne. The lightboxes depict the conceptual artists’ award-winning memorial, created in 1993, that consists of 80 street signs on lampposts in a Berlin neighborhood that housed a thriving Jewish population before World War II.
The signs reveal how German Jews were systematically stripped of fundamental rights: Each displays a different Nazi ordinance that placed restrictions on Jews; the reverse side shows a pictogram to illustrate the edict.
The lightboxes — shown here at an earlier location but installed on facing walls in East Pyne, near the entrance of the German department — include maps of the neighborhood in 1933 and 1993, surrounded by the 80 signs.
Thomas Levin, an associate professor of German who has long known the artists, said the works demonstrate “how to remember something terrible without sensationalizing or offending those who suffered.” The lightboxes are on long-term loan to the University Art Museum by the artists. Museum director James C. Steward said the museum is committed to art experiences across the campus and added: “‘Places of Remembrance’ is especially timely as we think about how memory is shaped, and how works of art shape our understanding of the past — a major issue we look forward to exploring next year on the 10-year anniversary of 9/11.”
By W. Raymond Ollwerther '71
Published in the April 7, 2010, Princeton PAW issue
Courtesy Princeton University, German Department
Fonte: http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2010/04/07/pages/9461/index.xml