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Paddington Bear shares a story especially for Refugee Week.
Through a story written by Michael Bond as part of the Simple Acts campaign, Paddington bear tells of his arrival in Britain and how a sticky paw can make the UK more welcoming for other refugees.
Read Paddington Bear’s Simple Act.
In partnership with Wordia.com and the Guardian’s Liberty Central, author Hari Kunzru comments that Freedom should mean much more than safety for Britain's refugees.
What do the following words mean to you?
refuge, liberty, freedom, detention, home, identity, community.
Wordia.com is an online visual dictionary which lets you define the words. We have created our own Refugee Week channel with words specific to Refugee Week.
Upload your own definition at www.wordia.com
The Norwich City of Refuge programme has celebrated Refugee Week 2009 with a series of films, talks and plays at the Writers' Centre. BBC Norfolk has picked up on this great initiative and featured one of the short films, ‘Letter to Europe’, on their website.
Shami Chakrabarti defines the word 'Refuge'
For Refugee Week, Liberty's Shami Chakrabarti has defined refuge and argues Britain can't turn its back on refugees. Yesterday Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of the charity Kids Company, defined the word ‘Refuge’ and on Monday the
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams also defined the word as part of the Simple Acts campaign.
The Guardian online has run a photo feature on the Simple Acts campaign.
Check out this feature on how some big names have gotten behind Refugee Week and the Simple Acts campaign.
We hit our 2000th Simple Act on Sunday morning :O)
Thanks to everyone who has done a Simple Act and registered it on our Action Counter – you’ve made a huge difference to the way refugees are perceived!
Celebrating Sanctuary in The Independent
The Celebrating Sanctuary festival 2009 was featured in the Arts section of Friday’s The Independent newspaper
More about the festival
Two excellent blogs have been written on Refuguee Week, the Simple Acts campaign, identity, home and the politcal climate post Euro elections.
Year 8 pupils from the Grango School in Wrexham have defined what refuge means to them.
The newly formed London City of Sanctuary group will be showing that refugees are important and valued citizens of the capital by unfurling a ‘Refugees Welcome Here’ banner at 50 iconic sites.
Teaming up with the British Red Cross, Dougray Scott has made a short film calling on people to show their support for refugees by changing their online status on social network sites such as Facebook.
Chris Cleave, author of 'The Other Hand', has written five pieces defining his understanding of refuge and asking us to question our own, one for each day of Refugee Week.
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Check out our highlighted selection of Refugee Week events
Refugee Week is here!
