Metallica and Rihanna together in New York

Great figures of music like Metallica and Rihanna joined other celebrities at a concert by the '' Global Citizen Festival '' New York, which this year put its emphasis on helping refugees.

The festival, broadcast live from Central Park, delivery tickets to fans to commit to petitions and other actions aimed at ending extreme poverty.

Interspersing performances by famous artists from around the world, with videos and short speeches, the fifth edition of the festival put a special emphasis on solidarity with refugees, especially Syria, wracked by war.

For more than six hours, viewers saw on stage to electronic duo Major Lazer, Demi Lovato, Ellie Goulding and Rihanna, who reminded the crowd that she migrated from Barbados.

Yusuf -Cat Stevens before he converted to Islam called the crowd to anyone being 'stigmatized' 'because of its identity.

The leader of Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, starred with Yusuf and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, while rapper Kendrick Lamar closed his performance with the energetic '' Alright '' his hymn to movement Black Lives Matters.

Syria and southern Sudanese refugees also took the floor. The organizers broadcast a video of Alex Assali, a Syrian who obtained refuge in Germany and feeds the homeless in gratitude.