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Refugee Week Scotland sets its stall, 60 years after the UN Refugee Convention was signed Words: Anna Millar
R efugee week is back, with special events, clubs, activities and talks (see Around Town page 62–64 for listings). This year’s programme includes Courage: 60 Years of the UN Refugee Convention, a short film (pictured) made by refugees living in Scotland and starring Christian Kasubandi and Rosa Sacharin. Kasubandi is now a player with Glasgow Rocks basketball team and came to Scotland as a teenager from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sacharin arrived in Scotland
when she was a child, too, via Kindertransport. She was fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. A visual arts highlight is the photography exhibition, Red Road by Robert Ormerod, based around the Glasgow Red Road flats, and focusing on the lives of the asylum seekers living there who are facing possible detention or deportation. Refugee Week Scotland, Mon 20–Sun 26 Jun. See refugeeweekscotland.com for more info.
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