On the occasion of this year’s World Refugee Day, which is celebrated each year on 20 June, the members of the Joint Working Group on Human Rights and Refugees are pleased to invite you to the webinar, “Stories from the field”. It will take place digitally on 20 June 2021, from 16h00 CEST until 18h30 CEST.
This event will be an opportunity to listen to the experiences of people with a refugee background, to learn more about the situation of refugees outside of Europe, and to get inspired by good practices of Guides and Scouts supporting refugees.
Programme
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Time |
Session |
Comment |
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16h00 CEST |
Presentation from refugees and experts |
Refugees will share their personal stories while experts will give some background and contextual information. |
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17h30 CEST |
Short break of 15 minutes |
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17h45 CEST |
Presentation from the Working Group on Human Rights and Refugees and selected Member Organisations of WAGGGS and WOSM in Europe |
Representatives of the Mouvement Scout de Suisse (Switzerland) and the Türkiye İzcilik Federasyonu (Turkey) will present the projects they implement, with whom they collaborated, and what they have learnt from it. |
Target Audience
This Joint Event is open to all Guides, Scouts and Leaders who are interested in the topic of Human Rights and Refugees. Please note that this event will take place in English, with no translation into French provided.
Registration
Please save your place by registering as soon as possible for the ZOOM videoconference call, noting that technical parameters may limit the number of participants to a certain size.
We are looking forward to welcoming many participants so that we can spread the Scouting and Guiding spirit even further.
The Europe Region WAGGGS and the European Scout Region of WOSM
8 June 2021
