7 Refugees from 7 decades and 7 countries mark 70 years of the UN Refugee Convention
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“It’s a great milestone, to be able to celebrate it and to pause and reflect"
Seventy years ago today the UK signed the UN Refugee Convention. Together With Refugees invited refugees from each of those seven decades to re-create the original signing of the Convention.
Read The Guardian's coverage of our celebration of 70 years of the UN Refugee Convention
Read the Guardian coverage of our recreation of the signing of the 1951 refugee convention, featuring people who have found asylum in the UK over the past 70 years.