{"id":43754,"date":"2018-01-17T22:06:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T22:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=43754"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:46:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:46:54","slug":"todays-news-todays-features-programmes-regions-us-account-search-site-search-site-15-jan-2018-tea-empathy-zamzam-yusuf-shares-refugee-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2018\/01\/todays-news-todays-features-programmes-regions-us-account-search-site-search-site-15-jan-2018-tea-empathy-zamzam-yusuf-shares-refugee-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"TODAY\u2019S NEWS TODAY\u2019S FEATURES PROGRAMMES REGIONS ABOUT US YOUR ACCOÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵT  Search in site&#8230; Search in site&#8230; 15 Jan 2018 Tea and empathy: ZamZam Yusuf shares her refugee experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Somali refugee ZamZam Yusuf has a message for any neighbours who think she doesn&#8217;t have the right to call Leicester, in the English Midlands, home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to offer you a cup of tea&#8221; at my house, says the 30-year-old mother-of-four, who came to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Headquarters in January, as world leaders prepare to debate the first ever\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/refugeesmigrants.un.org\/migration-compact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">global compact for migration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her university in the United Kingdom has taken the academic lead in furthering the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/together.un.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ&#8217;s Together campaign<\/a>, on behalf of the millions who are on the move, whose basic rights are being denied.<\/p>\n<p>Too often, said Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres \u2013 launching\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/refugeesmigrants.un.org\/SGReport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his 2018 report on refugees and migrants<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 their positive contribution is being overshadowed by the plight of a &#8220;desperate minority&#8221; forced to live in the shadows by countries that violate their rights.<\/p>\n<p>ZamZam came in to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/unradio\/sets\/lid-is-on-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lid Is On podcast<\/a>\u00a0studio, at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Headquarters in New York, to describe her extraordinary journey \u2013 just one of the millions that are being taken each year, in search of a better life.<\/p>\n<p>Duration: 21&#8217;40&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MUSIC CREDITS:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Ketsa\/33_1342\/Forth_Then_Fall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forth Then Fall<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Ketsa<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unmultimedia.org\/radio\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Zam-Zam-conf-room-2-final_625.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feature Photo<\/a>:\u00a0 ZamZam Yusuf holding the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\u2019s Together Campaign Logo, at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Headquarters in New York.\u00a0 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ News\/Matt Wells<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-soundcloud\"><iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/unradio\/lid-is-on-podcast-tea-and-empathy-zamzam-yusuf-shares-her-refugee-experience&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=false&amp;color=ff7700\" title=\"soundcloud\"><\/iframe><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":43756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[326,3261],"class_list":["post-43754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-poverty","category-news","tag-poverty","tag-refugee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}