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International Migrants Day takes place on Sunday 18 December, with this year’s theme being “It takes a community”. On 18 December 1990, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
A Birmingham-based journalist who originally travelled to the UK from Zimbabwe for a better life has been selected to be a judge for the prestigious One World Media Awards this year. Selbin Kabote, who works for charity Migrant Voice as a Media Lab Project Worker, is one of four judges in the ‘Refugee Reporting’ category at the prestigious annual event.
The UK’s first annual African cultural festival is set to be held in the West Midlands this summer. Described as a “jamboree of all things Africa”, Ubuntu Pride will celebrate a fusion of African culture through traditional music, arts, dance and food.