Melita Sunjic

Melita Sunjic (* 1955 in Rijeka ) is an Austrian journalist and publicist with Croatian roots. She was long-standing press officer of the UNHCR .

Life

Melita Sunjic came to Austria as a refugee child in 1957. Until she was ten, she lived with her parents in a UNHCR refugee camp in Steyr and Linz . After studying journalism and doing a doctorate at the University of Vienna , Sunjic worked as a journalist, and between 1980 and 1993 she headed the foreign policy editorial team of the Wiener Zeitung . Then she moved to UNHCR - the United Nations refugee agency. As the head press spokeswoman she worked in war and crisis regions in Afghanistan , Sudan , Angola , Iraq , the Balkans , Georgia and Nepal . In addition, she conducted field research on the reasons for migration, expectations, strategies and the vulnerability of refugees in the Near and Middle East and in African countries . On the basis of these studies, she developed the "www.tellingtherealstory.org" campaign, a digital platform for the exchange of information that has been visited annually by several million people from the affected countries since then.

In the media, Sunjic has repeatedly expressed himself critical of the way politicians deal with current refugee movements and called for more solidarity.

Awards

• 1995 Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book together with Patrik-Paul Volf for real Austrians

Works

• Where did the hatred come from? Croats and Slovenes fight for self-determination , Verlag Almathea Signum, Vienna 1992. ISBN 978-3-850023245 .
• Real Austrians together with Patrik-Paul Volf. Ed .: UNHCR. Picus Verlag , Vienna 1995. ISBN 978-3-854522874 .
• Escape to Austria, The Second Republic in refugee portraits together with Robert Schlesinger. Czernin Verlag , Vienna 2001. ISBN 978-3-707601190 .
• Remix in the cooking pot - improvisational kitchen for students, singles, hard-working and chaotic people in the household , unconventional cookbook, Verlag Braumüller , 2014. ISBN 978-3-991000624 .

Web links

• tellingtherealstory.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ czernin-verlag.com: Melita H. Sunjic ; accessed on May 3, 2018
2. ↑ orf.at of May 3, 2018: Melita Sunjic - In conversation ; accessed on May 3, 2018
3. ↑ profil.at of January 18, 2017: Die Mythenzümmerin: UNHCR expert Sunjic about lies on refugee routes ; accessed on May 3, 2018
4. ↑ orf.at of October 31, 2015: Melita Sunjic: Fences legally not tenable ; accessed on May 3, 2018
5. ↑ renner-institut.at: Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book - Laureates 1993-2017 (PDF) ; accessed on May 3, 2018
6. ↑ falter.at: Remix in a saucepan. Improvisation kitchen for students, singles, hard ... ; accessed on May 3, 2018