{"id":56,"date":"2010-06-07T19:48:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T18:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2010-06-11T21:49:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:49:29","slug":"world-refugee-day-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/world-refugee-day-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"World Refugee Day coming up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Refugee Day is on Sunday 20 June.  <\/p>\n<p>Events around the UK have already started, but most are in the week before the 20th, a.k.a. Refugee Week.  See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refugeeweek.org.uk\/InYourArea\" title=\"Events in different towns for Refugee Week.\">In Your Area<\/a> bit of the Refugee Week site.  <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refugeeweek.org.uk\/simple-acts\/about-refugee-week.htm\" title=\"List of various UK organisations involved, inc Oxfam and Amnesty.\">Refugee Week partnership<\/a> has also invented a thing called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refugeeweek.org.uk\/simple-acts\" title=\"Simple Acts page on the Refugee Week website.\">Simple Acts<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s a tiny video celebrating it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6csPOTDOVTQ&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6csPOTDOVTQ&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve listed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refugeeweek.org.uk\/simple-acts\/twenty-acts\" title=\"List of suggestions, with links to more details.\">twenty suggested acts<\/a> including &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.refugeeweek.org.uk\/simple-acts\/twenty-acts\/cook_a_dish\">Cook a dish from another country<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.refugeeweek.org.uk\/simple-acts\/twenty-acts\/tell-a-child-a-story\">Tell a child a story from another country<\/a>&#8221; (recipes and stories included!) and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.refugeeweek.org.uk\/simple-acts\/twenty-acts\/tea\/tea-with-a-refugee.htm\">Have tea with a refugee<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;s events include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/events_details.asp?ID=1589\" title\"Umbrella Parade details, inc when and where to turn up.\">World Refugee Day Umbrella Parade<\/a>, on Sunday 20 June.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEveryone will carry a huge white umbrella, as a symbol of care and shelter, representing our proud tradition of offering safety to those in fear for their lives. The umbrellas will be available free of charge at the meeting point. Similar parades are also taking place in eight other cities in Europe so we will be marching in solidarity with thousands of others across the continent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/image_library\/24\/27\/29923.gif\" alt=\"People marching with white umbrellas.\" \/>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Refugee Day is on Sunday 20 June.  Some links to event details and the &#8220;Simple Acts&#8221; campaign, and a short &#038; sweet animation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}