More than 15,000 people in 100 countries, including Ireland, will gather today to run, jog, walk and roll in solidarity with people forcibly displaced by war, extreme poverty and the climate crisis.
The Global Solidarity Run, now in its second year, is spearheaded by the Irish not-for-profit Sanctuary Runners movement. It will bring together participants in places including Addis Ababa, Toyko, the West Bank, New York, Buenos Aires Sydney, Copenhagen and the Solomon Islands in calling on governments to show “respect and decency to human beings” forced to migrate and find safety abroad.
“None of this is actually about running; it’s a vehicle to start conversations and show no one human being is inferior or superior to anyone else,” said Graham Clifford, f
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