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	Against All Odds

shunyax

11-26-2007 9:02 AM

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unhcr, education

shunyax says:

http://www.playagainstallodds.com/

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11-26-2007 9:17 AM

wildcat

brilliant idea! thx for this important clip shunyax

11-26-2007 9:22 PM

syncopath

Spanish or French, i may understand, but Danish, Finnish and Icelandic children 12-15 start forming ideas on refugees.. ?? .. -))

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<FONT size="2">The game was designed by workers in the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 
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