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Refugee Week 2004
INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT-A LOCAL RESPONSE
Art Competition
Anti Rasicm Football Tournement
International Conflict A Local Response  Exhibition
 
Art Competition
   

Aim :

To Raise awareness about issues an concerns relating to asylum seekers and refugees

Objective :

To encourage students to choose a topic relevent to Refugee Week 2004 or to asylum seekers and refugees in general from which they can learn something new for themselves.

Topics :
  •  The journey of an asylum seeker from their home country to Northen Ireland
  • How welcome are asylum seekers and refugees in Northen Ireland?
  • The translation from eing an asylum eeker to being a refugee
  • Global causes for seeking an asylum
  • Conflict-a global causes for seeking asylum
  • The experience of an asylum seeker before leaving their native country
  • Northen Ireland-a place of diversity

Judged by : Asylum seekers and refugees living in Northen Ireland

NICEM wishes to thank the BELB and theSEELB for their support in this competition

Laura's comments on her work:

“Racism is on the rise in Northern Ireland" .

Recorded figures show that on average every non-white person living in Northern Ireland will be attacked at least once.

The racist abuse and lies about asylum seekers by politicians and the press is, in my view, the main reason for these attacks.

The fact that Europe 's Leaders dishonestly refer to asylum seekers flooding the area encourages people to think that anyone who isn't European-looking is an asylum seeker. I have found the response of people I have talked to about these racist attacks over recent months to be one of anger and disgust.

Laura with the Deputy Lord Mayor

I am delighted to have had the opportunity, given to me by the NICEM competition, to make a personal response against racism and highlight that Immigration Controls are always racist.”

Laura Kelly - Age 17

Laura's Winning art work

 

WINNERS

1 st Prize :       Laura Kelly

                         St. Louise's Comprehensive College

2 nd Prize  :    Vyishnu Somasundram

                         Newtownbreda High School

3 rd Prize   :     Louie Chen     

                         Knockbreda High School
Anti Rasicm Football Tournement

THE NORTHEN IRELAND COUNICL FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES (NICEM)

AND

DONEGAL CELTIC

The Dub Pavillion-Malone Road

 

This legaue was held as a part of the Refugee Week celebrations. Each player  who took part signed a declaration against racism.

footballers in action

Football picture

This competition was building on the work done by the IFA earlier in the year when they held a Unity Cup League . The same teams were invited again to take part on the 22nd as a means of buliding on the anit-racism awareness amongst the teams and their supporters.

Admission to the league was was free and everyone was welcome to come along and support the teams taking part.

Goal keepers view
 
International Conflict A Local Response  Exhibition

Speech by Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor Joe O'Donnell

 

Earlier this year, Belfast became the host city for the annual Holocaust Memorial. This was marked with a series of talks and exhibitions aimed at jolting our conscience and to remind us that genocide and the horrors inflicted by humanity on humanity are not just part of our history but part of the human condition.

 

The message, in short, is that unless we are constantly reminded of the potential we have to inflict huge suffering in the name of whatever cause we will continue to embark on campaigns which will result in horror.

 

Refugees escaping the oppression of their societies and communities know a thing or two about horror and the human condition. Most of the refugees now in Ireland will have suffered at the hands of brutal regimes and will have found themselves unable to stay at home. For them, Ireland provides some kind of sanctuary.

 

It is our duty to know about the conditions that these people have fled from. We owe it to ourselves to know the reasons why so many refugees seek to leave their countries and build a new start for themselves and their families. We have to know this because we are all responsible for each other. We cannot turn our backs on the harsh realities of life. That would be as criminal as those who closed their shutters to avoid seeing the Jews being driven out of their homes by the Nazis throughout Europe and sent to their eventual deaths.

 

This exhibition is particularly welcome because it helps us all fulfil our duty of responsibility to our fellow citizens by informing us and reminding us of our privileged state. But it also underlines how we can benefit from their arrival here. In fact, recent statistics have shown that people born outside the UK, including asylum seekers, contribute 10% more to the economy in taxes and national insurance than they consume in benefits and public services.

 

I am grateful to NICEM for mounting the exhibition and on behalf of the people of Belfast I extend a warm welcome to those refugees who have chosen to make this city their home.

 

Thank you.

Dep Mayor

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My name is Neil. Im currently on work experiance Ihave  made this page as a part of my work experiance. I go to Lagan College.And for my work experiance I am working in NICEM, I think compared to my freinds work placements my work has been alot more interesting and less repetitive