World Refugee Day

2003-06-20

"'The days of our youth are the days of our glory’. So wrote the poet Byron. But tragically, for 20 million young people around the world, the days of their youth, far from being days of glory, are often filled with hopeless misery, unspeakable cruelty and heartless exploitation. Among them are the world’s refugee youth – youngsters whose only crime was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and who now find themselves the displaced victims of other people’s wars and conflicts.”

World Refugee Day:
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/events/+5wwFqzvnsh6_nX6xFqzvnsh6_nX6hFqhT0NuItFqtnVnDB5zFqt0U0NRIAFqwDzmwwwwwwww1Fqt0U0NRI

Please also see:

Global number of refugees dropped 14 per cent in 2002 - UN agency:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=7482&Cr=refugees&Cr1=
and

USA
First National Survey of Children in Immigration Detention Exposes Mistreatment, Lengthy Detentions, Legal Barriers
Amnesty International Warns Lack of Funding Will Severely Curtail Changes 18 June 2003:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2003/usa06182003.html