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World Refugee Day will be celebrated on Thursday, 20th June 2024 with the central theme of “Solidarity with Refugees“.
The UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees), a UN Refugee Agency with worldwide presence, will organize several events on World Refugee Day.
World Refugee Day: 20 June
An event will be organized at Delray Beach, Florida in which the refugees will be sharing their personal experiences on their refuge or asylum. They also share their experiences about settling down in Florida, America.
A mapathon will be held in Washington DC, in which the participants will be asked to create an updated map of Kakuma refugee Camp, to assist interested organizations with camp management efforts.
Governments, NGOs and local public of the nations with significant refugee population events will organize various events to address the grievances of the refugees.
A grand event will be organized at Salt Lake city, Utah for the refugees. The two days event calls for several activities by the refugees of Utah and their children. The events will involve food, singing, dancing and several other competitive events for the children.
The city of Minneapolis in Minnesota will host a special event on world Refugee Day 2019. The events will be organized by city’s neighborhood and Office of Immigration and Community Affairs (OIRA). Speaking program featuring the likes of mayor, city council members etc will be held.
Food will be offered to the guests in Minneapolis events and information stall will be installed to give all kind of information about refugees and organizations working for their cause.
World Refugee Day: History
World Refugee Day is observed every year by the people on 20th of June in order to raise the public awareness about refugee’s 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.
Why World Refugee Day Is Celebrated:
World refugee day is celebrated every year on 20th of June to support millions of families all over the world who have lost their homes and dear ones because of violence or war. The day was established by the General Assembly of United Nations for the refugees to honor them for their courage of facing lots of problems after losing homes due to conflict or violence and their contributions to their communities. World refugee day celebration provides an opportunity to all to help the refugees worldwide to rebuild their quality lives through lots of related activities.
Refugees are provided variety of lifesaving assistance, safety and protection by the government agencies and organizations. They are provided tents, shelter, living materials supplies and served with the life-saving services. The goal of celebrating this event is increasing public awareness among common public by sharing the related refugee stories.
It is celebrated to remind people about the all failures of an international community or home conflicts which forced lots of families to leave their home and go another place to save their life. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has taken big steps for immediate support to all the humanitarian needs of the refugees. However, it needs some important actions by the governments and other private organizations as well on national and regional level to fully control the refugee’s condition.
It is celebrated to eliminate all the horrific violence from the countries and community which is the main reason of people’s displacement and formation of refugee. 55% of all the refugees come from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Sudan. The event is established to prevent huge scale difficulties leading to the violence in the international communities and to promote the life saving solutions for refugees.
Refugees are taken as the asset and strength of the country and not as the burden. They are survivors and should get proper help and support timely. It is very necessary to draw people’s attention towards the refugee’s conditions to honor their courage and solve their problems.
How World Refugee Day Is Celebrated:
World refugee day event is celebrated by organizing variety of related activities all through the world to increase awareness among society and to highlight over the issues contributing to the conditions of refugees in the society. Some of the activities include:
- Participants involved in the event celebration protests against holding the migrants and asylum seekers to the prison.
- Refugee’s real stories are screened as a movie to show their life styles.
- Association members of the organization provide moral support to the refugees by meeting them in the imprisonment.
- Requesting government organizations for better management of the asylum seekers.
- Awareness activities are carried out by the celebrities, humanitarian aid workers, civilians and other famous group people for more effect.
- People living in the community are encouraged to participate in the event celebration through the social media.
- Refugee camps are organized to solve their problems by distributing them shelters, necessary goods, tents, plastic sheets, blankets and etc.
- They are also availed with free clinics, schools, water resources and etc for supporting them psychosocially and physically.
- Discussions and debates activities are organized in the schools and colleges.
Theme:
The annual celebration of the world refugee day is based on the particular theme of the year to effectively run the campaign. Some of the year wise themes are mentioned below:
- 2024: Solidarity with Refugees
- 2023: Hope Away from Home
- 2022: Right to seek safety
- 2021: Together we heal, learn and shine
- 2020: Every Action Counts
- 2019: #StepWithRefugees – Take a Step on World Refugee Day
- 2018: Now More Than Ever, We Need to Stand with Refugees
- 2017: Embracing Refugees to celebrate our Common Humanity
- 2016: We stand together with refugees
- 2015: With courage let us all combine
- 2014: Migrants and Refugees: Towards a Better World
- 2013: Take 1 minute to support a family forced to flee
- 2012: 1 family torn apart by war is too many
- 2011: 1 refugee without hope is too many
- 2010: 1 refugee forced to flee is too many
- 2009: Home
- 2008: Protection
- 2007: Perseverance
- 2006: Hope
- 2005: Courage
- 2004: Courage
- 2003: Refugee Youth: Building the Future
- 2002: Tolerance
- 2001: Respect
Popular Refugee Quotes:
- I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present. ~ Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General
- Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues. ~ Cynthia Basinet
- Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity. ~ Julien Clerc
- They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it’s just a disaster for everyone. ~ Teri Hatcher
- In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees. ~ Angelina Jolie
- Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words. ~ Angelina Jolie
- World Refugee Day is an important opportunity to remind us about the ongoing plight of millions of refugees around the world. ~ Robert Alan Silverstein
- No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land. ~ Warsan Shire (Poem – Home)
- Refugees are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, with the same hopes and ambitions as us—except that a twist of fate has bound their lives to a global refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale. ~ Khaled Hosseini
- A refugee is someone who survived and who can create the future. ~ Amela Koluder
- Refugees are not terrorists. They are often the first victims of terrorism. ~ António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres
- Refugees are neither seen nor heard, but they are everywhere. They are witnesses to the most awful things that people can do to each other, and they become storytellers simply by existing. Refugees embody misery and suffering, and they force us to confront terrible chaos and evil. ~ Arthur c. Helton
- We have a legal and moral obligation to protect people fleeing bombs, bullets and tyrants, and throughout history those people have enriched our society. ~ Juliet Stevenson
- Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. ~ Emma Lazarus
- Refugees didn’t just escape a place. They had to escape a thousand memories until they’d put enough time and distance between them and their misery to wake to a better day. ~ Nadia Hashimi
- It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks. ~ Dina Nayer
- The refugee crisis is a humanitarian challenge that must be collectively owned and collectively solved, whether we are talking about legal frameworks, institutional responses or funding. By crafting new humanitarian solutions to this crisis, critical contributions can be made to international peace and stability. ~ Kristin Sandvik
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