Refugee Issue Likened to Suicide

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There’s nothing quite like the attention-grabbing abilities of a spot that opens with a gun to a guy’s head. For the United Nations Refugee Agency, DraftFCB Lisbon created a compelling spot that promotes the 7th International Conference on Refugees on November 29-30. The commercial uses suicide as the analogy for refugee concerns aligning the act with taking the lives of those who are still alive and in need of rescue.

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