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World Refugee Day 2007 National Activities: Uruguay

World Refugee Day 2007 National Activities: Uruguay

20 June 2007

Sixteen-year old Farihalh hardly misses school despite her numerous daily chores. Farihalh wants to become "Minister of Darfur", the region she and her family escaped in 2004.

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Osvaldo Laport presented an international WRD concert broadcast on the national radio station, SODRE. Laport also met with refugees in Montevideo in a gathering covered by the media.