World Refugee Day 2018. Now More Than Ever, We need To Stand With Refugees.

World Refugee Day 2018.

Theme: Now More Than Ever, We need To Stand With Refugees.

World Refugee Day 2018 is on June 20th. This is an annual event, held on the same date each year, and 2018 is the 18th year of the event, run by the United Nations Refugee Agency, to state that the world supports and stands with refugees. The event is about raising global awareness of global responsibility for refugees.

World Refugee Day honours the strength and courage of refugees and encourages public awareness and support of the refugees, people who have had to flee their home lands because of conflict or natural disaster.

Refugees are vulnerable and in need, and are often misunderstood and maligned, and often have very little or nothing of their possessions and little food, they often have to leave their homes with nothing or with what they can carry. They suffer cold, hunger, trauma, despair, disease, violence and loss. The awareness day is to help public understanding of refugees as well as raising support and help.

Across the world, agencies, both governmental and non-governmental, work tirelessly to help refugees, but with people being made refugees daily, more help and awareness is constantly needed, to ensure that refugees are treated fairly and provided for, rather than being neglected or shunned, and there are projects to re-settle and provide for refugees.

So World Refugee Day highlights all of this. And now it also marks the launch of the ‘With Refugees’ petition, which will state the needs and potential rights of refugees.

 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.

WORLD REFUGEE DAY 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 Silvestein

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