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World Refugee Day 2007
Every year on the 20 June, the world honours the courage, resilience and strength of refugees.
On this sixth anniversary of the UN-designated World Refugee Day, thousands of organisations in hundreds of countries will come together to focus global attention on the plight of refugees and the causes of their exile, their determination and will to survive and on the contributions they make to their host communities.
In Australia and New Zealand this year, the theme is the
Voices of Young Refugees -- a call to listen to refugee young people themselves, their challenges and their triumphs.
To help facilitate the sharing of refugee stories, UNHCR is launching a Refugee Speakers' Bureau on World Refugee Day (20 June) in Melbourne by Australian actor and storyteller Jack Thompson.
For more information on Voices of Young Refugees, click here
For information on what events are planned to mark World Refugee Day/Refugee Week in this region or to list your own event, click here.
To access a Resource Kit for Refugee Week 2007, by the Refugee Council of Australia, click here
To order free World Refugee Day posters, click here.
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