UN World Refugee Day

CNN has a special report on refugees to commemorate United nations World Refugee Day.  Click here for the main page for that report.

Christiane Amanpour CNN Chief International Correspondent has an interesting story on covering refugees, which starts like this:

I suppose I am most attuned to the plight and particular circumstances of refugees, because I am one myself. When the Islamic Revolution swept Iran, my homeland, back in 1979, I left the country and came West. I ended up at a university and later at CNN in the United States. I think this experience has helped me in my work as I have spent the past 16 years on the road covering war, crisis, poverty and famine. Their inevitable byproduct is refugees.

Amanpour has reported on refugee crises from many of the world’s conflict zones including Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans and Iraq. Here are her reflections on the U.N.’s World Refugee Day. Click here for the full story.

KJ