2018 UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs

Lars Jan’s Holoscenes was screened as part of the side-event “Rights and Resilience: Protecting people displaced in the context of climate change and disaster” during the UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs, which brings together some 300 non-governmental organizations from around 90 countries.

DISPLACEMENT’s contributions were part of the panel moderated by Atle Solberg of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD). Madeline Garlick of UNHCR gave introductory remarks, followed by presentations from Nina M. Birkeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Reza Chowdhary of COAST BD, Kristen Hite of Oxfam, and Gopal Krishna Siwakoti of INHURED. Chirine El-Labbane of PDD presented the DISPLACEMENT project, and read a statement from the artist Lars Jan.

To read more about the event see: disasterdisplacement.org

Lars Jan Holoscenes
Photo courtesy of the artist