Compiled by Dick Bennett for a CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, and ECOLOGY
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-united-nations-world-refugees-day.html
(OMNI Anthology #1 June 20, 2008; #2 Dec. 4, 2011; #3 June 20, 2012; #4, June 20, 2014; #5, June 20, 2015; #6 June 20, 2017; #7, June 20, 2018; #8, June 20, 2019; #9, June 20, 2020; #10, June 20, 2021; #11, June 20, 2022; #12, June 20, 2023; #13, June 20, 2024; #14, June 20, 2025).
What’s at Stake: “The Day offers an opportunity to build empathy and understanding for the plight of refugees and to recognize their resilience in rebuilding their lives. “ UN.
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United Nations World Refugee Day
AFSC
2024 World Refugee Day
TEXTS UN REFUGEE DAY AND WEEK
World Refugee Day
World Refugee Day is an international day organised every year on 20 June by the United Nations. It is designed to celebrate and honour refugees from around the world. The day was first established on 20 June 2001, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Wikipedia
Theme 2025: Community as a Superpower.
Related to: Refugee Week
Significance: Awareness day for refugees; Anti-discrimination day
The Day offers an opportunity to build empathy and understanding for the plight of refugees and to recognize their resilience in rebuilding their lives. In 2001, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) decided that 20 June would be celebrated as World Refugee Day (A/RES/55/76).
World Refugee Day 2025 – SDG Knowledge Hub
SDG Knowledge Hub https://sdg.iisd.org › events › world-refugee-day-2025
https://www.unhcr.org › events › world-refugee-day-20…
Each year on 20 June, the world celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or …
UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency https://www.unhcr.org › Get involved › Take action
The next World Refugee Day will be held on 20 June 2025. Watch this page for more information and activities. World Refugee Day 2025. What is World Refugee Day?
World Refugee Day | United Nations
Videos
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International Day for the World Refugee Day 2025 – UN Chief …YouTube · United Nations
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YouTube · United Nations Caribbean Jun 20, 2024
A message of hope on World Refugee Day | Today is World …
Facebook · UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Jun 19, 2019
https://www.unrefugees.org › refugee-facts › world-ref…
On World Refugee Day, held every year on June 20th, we commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees.
World Refugee Day 2025 – Project Welcome – Publish
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
https://publish.illinois.edu › projectwelcome › world-refu…
World Refugee Day 2025 is June 20th! This international observance, designated by the United Nations, honors the courage, strength and determination of women.
“Help turn $40,000 into $80,000 this World Refugee Day!” Amy Gottlieb, AFSC
Dear Dick,
Today is World Refugee Day. It’s a day to honor the courage and resilience of all who have had to flee their homes in search of safety. And it comes at a critical time for immigrant communities in the U.S. and refugees and displaced people around the world. One way you can make a meaningful difference is to donate to AFSC’s Refugee Response Fund. Thanks to our matching gift challenge, your gift will go twice as far now through June 30. Please help turn $40,000 into $80,000 for humanitarian relief, advocacy, and more with a generous gift today!
Many people fleeing war, persecution, and other crises face dangerous travel conditions, including unreliable access to basic human needs like water, food, and shelter. And today, whether they are seeking asylum or have been part of our communities for decades, immigrants in the U.S. face a host of injustices.
These times require much of us as people, as friends, and as neighbors. But we have a moral responsibility to respond. As a Quaker organization, AFSC holds a deep belief in the power of transformative love and the sanctity of human rights and dignity. We also know through more than a century of experience that when communities come together with commitment and courage, we can make a difference, even in the most challenging of times.
In peace,
Amy Gottlieb, U.S. Migration Director
American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
United Nations WORLD REFUGEES DAY ANTHOLOGY #14, June 20, 2024.
What’s at Stake: World -Scale Problems Need World-Scale Resistance
THE UNITED NATIONS HAS BEEN OUR GREAT DEFENDER AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, ESPECIALLY VIA ITS INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
(IPCC)
JUNE 8, UN WORLD OCEANS DAY
JUNE 17, UN DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT DAY
JUNE 20 , UN WORLD REFUGEES DAY
UNWRA, UN Relief Refugees Agency for Palestinian Refugees (recently defunded by Trump)
Contents UN WORLD Refugees 2024
HENRY COCKBURN.
AFSC
Biden shuts down U.S.-Mexico border
David Nasaw. “(Don’t) Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor.” (The Nation, ACLU, AFSC).
2023: https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-united-nations-world-refugees-day.html