Photo credits © Magnum Photographs Clément Saccomani
On the occasion this year's World Refugee Day and the 60 th anniversary of the Geneva Refugee Convention, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Austria, in cooperation with the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna, presented a photo exhibition by the famous photo agency Magnum Photos on Saturday, 18 June 2011, at the Museums Quarter, Vienna.
With portraits of refugees of the last six decades, an original UNHCR refugee tent and special guided tours on "Refugee Protection and Human Rights" by the UN Visitors Service in Vienna, several hundred visitors learnt more about the situation of refugees and the work of UNHCR.
Apart from the exhibition, children and adults were invited to make their own buttons on refugee protection and to participate in drum sessions and painting workshops run by the NGO KAMA.
The Geneva Refugee Convention was approved at a special United Nations conference on 28 July 1951. It is today - 60 years later - still the key document for international refugee protection.
UNHCR was founded in 1950 and helps the victims of flight and expulsion in the entire world. About 43.3 millions of people seek refuge in flight, two third of them are supported by UNHCR. UNHCR does not only protect and support refugees, but also asylum seekers, stateless people, returnees and internally displaced people worldwide.
