June 20 is World Refugee Day, we want to pay tribute to all those
people who have been forced to leave their homes. And not only that, we also want to highlight the role
It is essential that all host countries must have. Its institutions and social policies become
essential to give them a new future. Responsibility and co-responsibility affects us all. Also at
We, as citizens.
According to the UN, in 2021 there were about 89 million people displaced from their homes, from their homes
country, due to political circumstances, to situations of danger due to persecution, to armed conflicts, to
Wars that generate injuries, deaths, orphans, poverty, uncertainty, fears...
Refugees and immigrants looking for a new life. Column of migrants near the state borders. Fence and barbed wire. Surveillance, supervised. Abandon their lands for a better future.
According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to asylum, but in practice
It depends on the host country or countries. It is curious to see how the most welcoming countries are those that are on the way
of development, not the most developed.
Discrimination in the acceptance of refugees according to their origin, religion, ethnicity is
a reality. Europe is a good example.
Syria, Greece, Europe, Turkey, Refugee Children
The helplessness and loneliness of the refugee. If just for a moment we put ourselves in the shoes of these people,
How will we feel? Whether they are men, women, children... No one escapes this anguish. Without anyone
Help on your long road you have to go to survive. A road full of dangers and difficulties.
We, in the host countries, can do much more to rescue their dignity as the people they are.
UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is the international entity
in charge of their care and protection.
Video of different situations of people on their journey:
We can imagine that their loneliness is the same as that felt by the protagonists in La Gavina de
Chekhov, either because they have lost their childhood, or youth, or because they feel misunderstood and
despised. Loss always appears in what you have left. When you're helpless, it's hard to find
your place. They are the feelings shared by people who have left their lives in a country where
They probably won't be able to come back. La Gavina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynGnOf0scl8
If you look at the play Fires by WAJDI MOUAWAD, focused on the complicated trajectory that
They have to follow two brothers, overcoming dangers to survive, we can appreciate the superhuman effort they make
many of the people displaced by persecution or conflict.
Fire:
