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UNIS/INF/526
20 June 2017
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United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed:
Remarks at Refugee event
Vienna, 20 June 2017
(delivered by Martin Nesirky, Director, UN Information Service (UNIS) Vienna)
VIENNA, 20 June (UN Information Service) - Today [World Refugee Day] is an opportunity to express solidarity with people who have been uprooted from their homes by war or persecution.
It is something we all need to do every day of the year.
We are privileged today to have a reading by Melissa Fleming from her powerful book "A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea".
We will hear something of the story of Doaa Al Zamel.
Forced to flee because of the war in Syria, Doaa was plunged into a desperate struggle to save her own life and those of her companions.
I am not going to spoil the story for you. I simply want to highlight that what Melissa has done in her book is to humanize the issue of forced displacement and migration by focusing on one individual.
And that is what we all need to remind ourselves every day: that each statistic is a human story -- daughter or a son, a mother or father, whose life has been cruelly transformed.
And, indeed, the statistics are sobering.
The latest figures
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Amina Mohammed
Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
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Press Conference: The Deputy Secretary-General…
Thank you very much, everyone, for joining us this morning.
And yes, we just got back – myself, Executive Director for UN Women and our ASG (Assistant Secretary-General) from DPPA (Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs) and DPO (Department of Peace Operations) – yesterday evening.
It was a trip that took us about two weeks. It took this long because at the very beginning, when the Taliban announced the bans on education and women in the workplace, our consultations were clear: that we need to have a united front in engaging with trying to get a reversal of these bans; the most important thing, women's rights and girls' rights in Afghanistan.
So, we did embark on a number of visits in person that were consultative, to the region and slightly beyond: Türkiye and Indonesia were included, to some of the Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia.
And then on our way out of Afghanistan, we did visit Kazakhstan but also the UK and the EU. And I think this is important because this is the whole of society, government approach. The international community needs to have that unified response.
We had three things in mind – first was solidarity and the importance of women's rights and what had been taken away