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A MILLION SHILLINGS - ESCAPE FROM
SOMALIA
Alixandra Fazzina - Photographer
Djibouti
& Somalia - Covering their bodies with tattered blankets and veils, a group
of thirty female refugees spend the night sleeping along the pavement in
Djiboutiville's Rue Issa. Having fled the escalating fighting in Somalia's
Mogadishu, this group of women arrived in Djibouti just three days
before. For these already vulnerable women, there are no shelters, no
place of refuge at the mosques and nowhere to turn as the already impoverished
city dwellers start to charge exorbitant rents that remain unaffordable to all
but a few.Most have paid out what little money they have to bed their children
down for the night in a place of safety.
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UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
http://www.unhcr.org/4cab23d69.html
Photojournalist Alixandra Fazzini
Receives Prestigious Nansen Refugee Award
for Powerful Photography of the
Harsh Lives of Refugees & the Forcibly Displaced
GENEVA,
October 5, 2010 (UNHCR) –
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres presented British
photojournalist Alixandra Fazzina with the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award in
Geneva, calling her a "heroine" and a true partner in the cause of
refugee protection.
As the High Commissioner noted, Fazzina has over the past decade travelled to "the most dangerous places in the world . . . the most remote places in the world" to photograph the harsh lives of the forcibly displaced and bring this to the attention of the world.
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