2011年8月アーカイブ

Several unaccompanied Honduran child migrants journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call "The Beast." This documentary shows the personal side of migration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness.

What does "home" mean to you? What does it mean to be a refugee? What do you most hope for? UNHCR is talking to refugees and other forcibly displaced people around the world about what forced them from their homes and how that experience has shaped their lives. Here are their stories.

In 2007, a wave of desperate African refugees, many from Darfur, crosses the desert border into Israel. Empty-handed and journeying on foot, they contend with dangerous conditions on the Egypt-Israel border in a frantic attempt to reach safety. The film crew follows not only these refugees but also a group of Israeli volunteers who challenge their own government's position.

In 2000, a year after losing their homes to conflict in Kosovo, many Roma and Ashkali families from four Kosovar towns were relocated to an IDP Camp. One day, the first Kosovar Prime Minister and the UN Representative visited the camp and promised to close it. Two years later, though, most of the families remain in two apartment buildings - in the same place where the camp used to be.

In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive after fleeing poverty, political adversity, and even genocide. Here, however, no child is a stranger: with tremendous effort and dedication, teachers provide the support these children need to recover from their pasts.

A small community in southern Italy is now home to one of the biggest refugee camps in Europe. While hundreds of desperate refugees wait to see whether they will at least have a chance to live something like a normal life, locals ponder why they must share with others the place that they call home.

Between 12 and 14 February 2011, following uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, approximately five thousand people landed on the shores of Lampedusa. Video footage details one such landing, featuring oral testimony by volunteers, local inhabitants, and refugees.

In modern Colombia, the biggest trial of paramilitary soldiers - accused of killing thousands of Colombians - is designed to create "peace and justice." However, the process comes to an abrupt halt when the political and economic interests operating during the paramilitary war are uncovered. Are the victims' families doomed to stay victims forever, or can they fight against impunity?

The odyssey of three groups of refugees - a married couple with a child, two young men with two children, and two good friends - all of whom managed to escape from their native Iran. Stuck in Turkey, they have to wait in a run-down hotel, hoping each day that their applications for asylum will be approved.

The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. From foot soldiers to Pol Pot's right-hand man, the notorious Brother Number Two, local journalist Sambath - who lost his parents and his siblings in the Killing Fields -records shocking testimony never heard before.

The documentary reveals the journeys and struggles of Rohingya Muslims in Thailand and Bangladesh. Forced to flee from Burma (Myanmar), they fight for survival and a better life.

The film follows an Afghan boy named Mir as he changes from a childish eight year-old into a fully grown eighteen-year-old. These ten years are a journey into early adulthood in one of the toughest places on earth - a journey that mirrors the current, vitally important story of Afghanistan.

Fleeing a forced marriage at thirteen, a Somali girl arrives in London and finds work as a maidservant in her Embassy. When the Embassy closes during Somalia's civil war, she disappears into the big city before, while working as a cleaner, she attracts a fashion photographer's attention. After achieving international success as a model, she abandons her career to fight genital mutilation, of which she herself was a victim.
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Kassim was forced to be a child soldier at age six. Later, he uses the army's boxing team as his ticket to the United States. He defects from Uganda and becomes Junior Middleweight Champion of the World. At twenty-seven, Kassim trains for his next world title, but in order to reunite with his family he must first seek a military pardon from the very government that abducted him so long ago.

Tania and her son Ivan arrived in Belgium eight years ago. Although they are well integrated, they live without legal status. One day, Tania is arrested by the immigration office; Ivan manages to escape. Separated from her son, Tania discovers that her rights are brutally ignored in the detention center.

A biographical film about Fridtjof Nansen, the first Norwegian polar explorer. Following his appointment to the League of Nations, Nansen devoted himself as the first High Commissioner for Refugees, supporting those forced to flee from conflict and assisting the repatriation of prisoners of war.

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, 95 Burmese (Myanmarese) refugees living in Japan engaged in volunteer activities in the devastated areas. Despite the fact that their life as refugees in Japan is not easy, they willingly volunteered. What drove them to do so? The camera focuses on a young woman who left her mother in her home country.