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UN Chamber Music

Virtual Concert in Celebration of World Refugee Day

UN Chamber Music Society VIRTUAL GLOBAL LAUNCH:Sunday, 20 June 20219:00am EST (New York Time)4:00pm EEST (Mafraq, Jordan Time) Watch the performance: United NationsUN Global YouTube: http://youtube.com/unitednationsUN WebTV: http://webtv.un.org/UNHCR Global Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/unhcrUNHCR Jordan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNHCRJordan/ On the occasion of World Refugee Day on Sunday, 20 June 2021, the UN Chamber Music Society of the United Nations…
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Hot Mud Indonesia

The Story of Hot Mud and Human Suffering

In Photographs Amsterdam, March 12 2021– Lusi, or Lumpur Sidoarjo Indonesian word for hot mud. It now is a household word in Indonesia, the result of an erupting mud volcano in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia since May 2006.  We visited not long after, for the BBC’s Outlook. Some suggest it happened…
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Burundi Civil War

Burundi, the Almost Forgotten Civil War

Beatriz and Bernard Amsterdam, March 12, 2021 – First thing the Vice Minister of Health in Bujumbura, the then Capital of Burundi says when I am entering his impressive office and on a story invited by a Dutch NGO, to report on the construction of a water system in Muyinga, is: ‘ Be welcome and…
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