For the next three nights, the Colosseum will be a glowing billboard for the cause of human rights.
The UN has marked today, the 20th of June, as World Refugee Day, saying:
The refugee challenge in the 21st century is changing rapidly. People are forced to flee their homes for increasingly complicated and interlinked reasons. Some 40 million people worldwide are already uprooted by violence and persecution, and it is likely that the future will see more people on the run as a growing number of push factors compound one another to create conditions for further forced displacement.
Today people do not just flee persecution and war but also injustice, exclusion, environmental pressures, competition for scarce resources and all the miserable human consequences of dysfunctional states.
The task facing the international community in this new environment is to find ways to unlock the potential of refugees who have so much to offer if they are given the opportunity to regain control over their lives.
Rome is participating by projecting the symbol of the UN’s Refugee Agency, along with its slogan, “Proteggere i rifugiati è un dovere. Essere protetti è un diritto” or “Protecting refugees is a must. To be protected is a right.”
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