RefugiArte 2020-2021 is an initiative from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency that seeks to raise awareness and disseminate, through art, the protection needs of people forced to flee their communities or countries.
The Project began to be developed in 2015 within the framework of the 50th anniversary of UNHCR’s Regional Office for Southern Latin America. At the end of 2018, more than 50 artists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay joined in the initiative through a piece that reflects the reality of refugees worldwide.
In 2017, RefugiArte began to be exhibited in Central America, where UNHCR’s Regional Office for Central America, Cuba and Mexico, based in Panama, took the initiative and incorporated artists from the sub region, who also shared their artwork (through illustrations and caricatures), especially in a region where violence has increased leading to a growth in forced displacement.
RefugiArte has been present in numerous spaces in the cities of Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Antofagasta, San Luis, Quito, Lima, Montevideo. Panama City, San Pedro Sula, San Salvador, and Geneva, among other cities.
The objective of this cultural action is to help raise awareness and disseminate, through art, the protection needs of refugees and internally displaced persons affected by violence, discrimination and intolerance in the world, making a joint cooperation effort for the sake of contributing to the visibility of what the refugee crisis represents for the whole world and to bring this issue closer to society in order to promote positive attitudes towards this population.
At the end of 2019, 79.5 million people were displaced worldwide, the largest number recorded by UNHCR. In the last decade, at least 100 million people have been forced to flee their homes seeking protection within or outside their countries. Forced displacement has nearly doubled since 2010 (41 million then versus 79.5 million now).
In the last years, the American continent has experienced complex dynamics and growing forced displacement, particularly with the rise in the number of people who flee from the North of Central America, Nicaragua and Venezuela, and others who have been internally displaced in Honduras, El Salvador and Colombia. Millions of people in the region have been forced to abandon their homes and try to rebuild their lives in exile.
Source link : https://www.unhcr.org/refugiarte/
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Publish date : 2020-11-09 11:18:57
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