ReFuture | #Refugee #DesignThinking

During one day, Hong Kong refugees, asylum seekers and volunteers meet, share their stories and work together with Design Thinking method and Rapid Prototyping to invent better appliances, adapted to the needs and desires of the Hong Kong refugees and asylum seekers. Version after version, a better design is emerging. From using simple free materials found in the street, to an elegant and simple design.

FACTS ABOUT REFUGEES
No one chooses to flee their country to be a refugee, but everyone has the right to seek asylum and receive protection.
Hong Kong has one of the smallest global refugee populations. There are only around 10,000 people seeking protection here from countries like Sri Lanka, Burundi and Somalia. That is only 0.2 per cent of people in Hong Kong.
There are 19.5 million refugees in the world. 86 per cent of them are hosted by developing countries.
Although China has signed the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, it has not been extended to Hong Kong, making it one of the only wealthy, developed jurisdictions in the world not party to this human rights instrument.
Many Hong Kongers were once refugees themselves. Between 700,000 and 1 million refugees came to Hong Kong in the 1950s, eventually comprising one-third of the city’s population.

FACTS ABOUT MODERN SLAVERY
Key forms of modern slavery include forced labour, debt bondage, child labour, early and forced marriage, involuntary domestic servitude and human trafficking.
21-30 million people are trapped in slavery around the world.
Slavery generates $32 billion for traffickers each year.
Over half of the world’s slaves are in Asia.
Hong Kong is a destination and transit territory for men, women and children subjected to slavery from around the world.
According to the Trafficking in Persons Report 2012 (TIP Report), the government of Hong Kong does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.

Text from: http://www.justicecentre.org.hk/facts/

In collaboration with SOWERS Exchange, Justice Center and Hong Kong Christian Action, with Christie’s and Royal Bank of Canada

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