Refugee Week in the UK, 15-21 June 2009
Refugee Week is a UK wide series of events and activities that celebrate the contribution made by refugees to UK life and seek to promote a better understanding of why people become refugees.
Refugee Week takes place every year in June during the same week as World Refugee Day on June 20th. The main focus of Refugee Week activities in 2009 is the Simple Acts Campaign, which is about inspiring people to use small, everyday actions to change perceptions of refugees.
- Refugee Week
- Asylum Dialogues
- British Red Cross ‘Look beyond the label’
- FMO World Refugee Day and Refugee Week
June 15th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
This week Oxfam and their partners are making a special effort to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK through a series of events up and down the country.
As part of this the UK Poverty Post will be publishing some specially commissioned blogs in support of Refugee Week.
Today we begin with a post from Krisnah Poinasamy who talks about what a refugee is, previews some of the events taking place this week and outlines why Oxfam works with refugees.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/applications/blogs/ukpp/2009/06/krisnah_poinasamy_mar_ha_ba_1.html
Check out Krisnah’s post and add your comments. Don’t forget to keep looking throughout the week for posts about the Still Human Still Here campaign, refugees living in destitution, the refugee media awards, the contribution refugees have made to British culture and much more!
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Hello!
Thanks so much for highlighting Refugee Week 2009 and the Simple Acts campaign on your blog.
It’s support from people like you that has helped us see over 6000 simple acts completed so far!
Keep up the good work and visit us for a natter http://www.simpleacts.org.uk
Best
Anna and the Simple Acts team