World Refugee Day
 World Refugee Day has been celebrated since 2001 and is part of World Refugee Week. This UN initiative uses art and performance to deliver positive educational messages to try and counter fear, ignorance and negative stereotypes of refugees.
This year's theme is 'Hope' and has been backed by the High commissioner Antonio Guterres who, in a statement made yesterday in Geneva said: "World Refugee Day is part of that common effort as we gather on 20 June in cities and towns, in refugee camps and in remote settlements to pay tribute to the courageous, unwavering hope of the world's refugees - and to assure them that they are not forgotten."
Goodwill ambassador and actress, Angelina Jolie, also urged people to remember those forced out of their homes. "For the millions of displaced persons around the world, please help keep their hope alive and remember World Refugee Day," she said in a message recently recorded in Namibia.
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I'm looking for some help…
(I tried to do this as an email, but the link isn't working for me)
We're starting a podcast for/by people who have immigrated to another country. We'd like to bring stories/articles by contributors FROM every continent, TO every continent. (i.e., a Mexican living in Canada, or a Scot living in France, a Dane living in Japan, an Ecuadorian living in Brazil, an Australian living in Africa, etcetera, etcetera.)
The "immigrant" category is rather large, examples include: expatriates, academics, aid workers, refugees, foreign businesspeople, spouses of "foreigners" etc.
I've written to quite a few organizations searching for good contributors; journalism schools, international corporations, non-profit aid organizations, etc. I've had a lot of interest, but not a lot of actual work submitted.
I was hoping to find help here in the blogosphere, as you all are prolific writers!
Please help! I need people to contribute articles (2-3 pages), 3 times per year. You may of course choose the topic, it may be light or heavy. Please see the guidelines set out in our website in the "contribute here" section.
Bradley
http://www.freewebs.com/rabbitholedaily/
P.S. Podcasts will be available starting mid-to-late September, please check us out on itunes; Rabbit Hole Daily. (Go to the website for an explanation of the funny name)
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