Today’s refugees
According to UNHCR, there are 70,8 million refugees in the world today. The biggest refugee camp is in Bangladesh and houses the approximately 630,000 Rohingyas who are considered one of the most persecuted people. A people with no future, little hope and a life in limbo.
In the “Ultimate Safari”, Nadine Gordimer tells a story of a group of people that has to flee because of war and conflict.
We have also heard about the people of West Sahara and their sufferings, being forced from their homes to live in refugee camps since the invasion of West Sahara by Morocco in 1975.
Write a blogpost in which you summarize the impressions you are left with after working with both fact and fiction. What do you think the UN can do to solve/improve the situation for the refugees/the refugee challenge? What can the world do?
Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax5f9KsGfv8&feature=emb_title
“The Ultimate Safari” by Nadine Gordimer
https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/refugees/index.html
https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2019/trapped-in-the-worlds-largest-refugee-camp/
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