This page contains details of events supported
by UNHCR London, including speaking engagements by UNHCR London staff, fundraisers and exhibitions.
KEY DATES FOR 2010
Friday 15 January:
Scottish Refugee Council AGM and Public Meeting
2.00pm Glasgow City Chambers
The theme of the meeting is 'asylum is a human right'. Roland Schilling, the UK representative of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will discuss asylum in an international context. Other key speakers include Professor Alan Miller, Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission who will discuss asylum as a human right from a Scottish perspective.
Friday 22 January- Wednesday 4 February
'Moving to Mars: A Million Miles from Burma' Screening
ICA Cinema in London
Moving to Mars tells the story of two refugee families from Burma, over a year that will change their lives completely.
Thaw Htoo, Jo Kae and their families are Karen, an ethnic group much persecuted by Burma's ruling military junta. Forced from their homes by military aggression, the two families have lived in Mae La Camp - a 3km enclosure on the Thai-Burma border - for almost twenty years.
With conditions in Mae La overcrowded and basic, and with no real future for their children, the families opt for relocation abroad. Their new home will be Sheffield, a large and bustling city in the north of England. For two families used to living within the confines of a refugee camp, whose children who have never even seen the outside world, their new lives will be different to anything they've ever known.
Filmed in Thailand and Sheffield, the film follows the families as they prepare to leave Mae La, as they travel to the UK, and as they struggle to establish themselves in a strange new city. Directed by Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo, The Shock Doctrine), produced by Karen Katz and with music by Adrian Johnston (Brideshead Revisited, Becoming Jane).
Information about times and tickets can be found on the ICA website
www.ica.org.uk.
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