Refugee Week 2020 – Calendar of Events
UNICEF Action for Human Rights Day in Geneva: Children die in conflict zones and suffer across the world
Euro-Mernet team attended and supported a gathering of children’s choir, Mosaic, and their parents’ “human chain”, organised by the Swiss National Committee of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), near the [Jean Jacques] Rousseau Island & Park (Île Rousseau) in Geneva, Switzerland. During the event, Charlotte Schweizer, media spokesperson of UNICEF, made a statement highlighting the key facts about the state of the children across the world on the eve of Human Rights Day. She gave examples of children being among the primary victims of wars and conflicts from Yemen to Rohingya, and also in places where poverty, malnutrition, diseases, and deprivation of economic and educational rights are rife.
Following speeches by guest speakers from local authority and ministry of education, children’s choir Mosaic sang John Lennon‘s iconic piece “Imagine” and blue UNICEF balloons were released into the sky.
Euro-Mernet team shared the up-to-date facts and figures on Euro-Meditterranean region with the guests of the gathering. Examples of past Euro-Mernet awareness-raising activities on children’s rights, including the information on film screenings e.g. “Africa United”, were displayed on mobile devices at the venue.
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