World Refugee Day Images, Stock Photos: World Refugee Day is observed every year by the people on 20th of June in order to raise the public awareness about refugees situations throughout the world. Celebrating World Refugee Day annually on 20th of June was declared by the United Nations General Assembly in the Resolution 55/76 on 4th of December in 2000. It was started celebrating worldwide as an annual event from 2001 on every 20th of June.
The World Refugee Day celebration of 2001 has marked as the 50th anniversary of 1951 Convention Refugees status by the United Nations General Assembly. It has been started celebrating in several countries all around the world from 2000. It is celebrated on different dates and weeks in many countries.
Syria continues to be the world’s largest refugee crisis as we enter 2024, representing nearly 25% of the total global refugee population. As of mid-2023, 6.49 million Syrians have sought refuge, primarily in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and Türkiye. In Lebanon, there are no formal camps, which leaves its population of over 1 million Syrians living across 2,000 communities, often in overcrowded temporary shelters.
Since 2013, Concern has responded to the crisis in Syria, both locally and within refugee communities in Türkiye and Lebanon. In 2019, we also began operating in Iraq.
World Refugee Day Images:
A displaced Syrian woman waits to receive food aid on June 9, 2017 at the al-Mabrouka camp in the village of Ras al-Ain on the Syria-Turkey border, where many Syrians who fled from territory held by the Islamic State (IS) group in Raqa are taking shelter.
Aerial view of the new settlement of displaced families in Aburoc, South Sudan on June 5, 2017. Government offensives on the West Bank of the Nile river in April and May 2017 led to the capture of several villages, including Kodok. Up to 25,000 people were displaced during these clashes, most of whom initially fled toward Aburoc. In subsequent weeks, at least 20,000 people fled to Sudan. Many of those in Aburoc walked for days on foot to reach the location without access to sufficient water due to conflict along the River Nile and arrived exhausted and weak.
An evacuee looks out from a tent inside a refugee camp for people who fled from Mosul due to fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq June 10, 2017.
A South Sudanese refugee child stands at the UNHCR camp of al-Algaya in Sudan’s White Nile state, south of Khartoum, on May 17, 2017. More than 95,000 South Sudanese have entered Sudan so far this year, the UN said, as thousands continue to flee war and famine in the world’s youngest nation. South Sudan, which split from the north in 2011, has declared famine in parts of the country, saying a million people are on the brink of starvation.
Displaced Iraqi children gather behind a fence at the Hasan Sham camp for internally displaced people. According to a new report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a record 65.6 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced from their homes due to conflict or persecution by the end of 2016. The number marks a jump of 300,000 from the end of 2015. ‘This equates to one person becoming displaced every three seconds – less than the time it takes to read this sentence’ the United Nations report said.
Displaced Iraqi families evacuate from the modern town of Hatra and neighbouring villages, near the eponymous UNESCO-listed ancient city, southwest of the northern city of Mosul, on April 26, 2017, as pro-government Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitary forces advance during an offensive to retake the area from Islamic State (IS) group fighters. Hatra is the latest important archaeological site to be recaptured from IS. Jihadists had embarked on a campaign of destruction against archaeological sites after they seized swathes of Iraq and Syria in a lightning 2014 offensive. The full extent of the harm to Hatra remains unclear.
Displaced Iraqis flee during a fight between Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) forces and Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq, May 15, 2017.
Displaced Iraqis, who fled their homes in the Old City in western Mosul due to the ongoing fighting between government forces and Islamic State (IS) group fighters, are taken to the Hammam al-Alil camp, south of Mosul, on March 27, 2017. Iraqi forces renewed their assault against jihadists in Mosul’s Old City, after days in which the battle was overshadowed by reports of heavy civilian casualties from air strikes.
Internally displaced children who fled Raqqa city play in a camp in Ain Issa, Raqqa Governorate, Syria.
Migrants and refugees stand on the deck of the vessel Golfo Azzurro after being rescued by Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms workers on the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, June 16, 2017. A Spanish aid organization Thursday rescued more than 600 migrants who were attempting the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in packed boats from Libya.
Women on their way to Italy sit on the deck of the rescue vessel Golfo Azzurro, after being rescued by Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms workers from the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, June. 16, 2017.
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