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Saturday, June 28, 2014

What is the most precious thing to you?

Suppose you have to leave your home and there's 1 minute left,
You can take just only 1 item.
What will you take?
Even though there's plenty of time left, you might not be able to choose one from.

May, Syrian refugee in Iraq, had brought her bracelet.
But she told the bracelet is not the first, she had wanted to have her doll Nancy back, left on her bed on the night of evacuation.

                                                                              ⓒUNHCR/B.Sokol

Mimi Fowler, an English girl who live in Thailand, saw a story from UNHCR web site.
And she thought of Mimi, and she broken her piggy bank and bought a new doll not used one.
And the Doll was sent from Thailand.
Finally got to Mimi at the camp of Syrian refugee in Iraq.

                                                                   ⓒUNHCR / N.Prokopchuk

Refugees from their ordinary life, they might not know how precious the thing and the people they love.
But now, they lose all of that at once, and miss it all.

Strange to say, we all can be refugee.
We have to keep peace in that thought.
And we all can be a peace advocate in our direct life.
Just like Mimi, only 5 years old girl, sent a doll of peace and love by breaking her piggy bank.


Friday, June 20, 2014

World Refugee Day.

The United Nations is warning of a massive flood of refugees will be appeared by the radical Iraq Sunni militant group attacked in Iraq.
According to UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, about 300 thousand refugees evacuated from Mosul where Islamic State in Iraq (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) occupied

Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said "If it will be a protracted conflict, I think it will be inevitable to have again a meaningful ouftlow of refugees."

Today is World Refugee Day, 20th June.

Refugee is a person who flees their home country due to a "well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion." defined by UN.

United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights' Article 2: " Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status."
Though this declaration is far from reality, we have to defend this.
Refugee is a person.
Human right is more important than the country's.
We are able to go anywhere if it threatened our dignity and the life from where I have lived.
Everyone could been refugee.
I hope all the refugees treated as a human not a criminal.