World Refugee Day

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The World Refugee Day is one of the United Nations equipped of action, the most since 2001 on June 20 takes place.

History of World Refugee Day

Before 2001, many countries had already celebrated their own national refugee days. The individual bishops' conferences partly set other days, for example in Latin America October 12, the day of the conquest of America. On December 4, 2000, the UN General Assembly declared June 20 to be World Refugee Day by resolution 55/76 on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the founding of the UNHCR . This date was chosen because June 20 had already been Africa Refugee Day in many countries .

Every year on World Refugee Day, the UNHCR publishes an annual report. According to this, over 51 million people were displaced by the end of 2013, including more than 33 million men, women and children in their own country (“internally displaced persons”). The number of refugees had thus reached the highest level since the Second World War . The six million year-on-year increase was mainly caused by the war in Syria . There was also a significant increase in displacement and displacement in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and South Sudan . The main receiving countries for refugees are Pakistan , Iran and Lebanon .

Related memorial days

World Migrants Day (also World Day of Migrants and Refugees , World Day of Migrants and Refugees ; short World Refugee Day ) has existed since 1914 , an annual church day of remembrance for refugees and migrants on January 19 . It was first introduced in 1914 by Pope Benedict XV. proclaimed with the decree Ethnografica studia .

Other days of remembrance held only in Germany are Refugee Day as part of the Intercultural Week at the end of September and, from 2015, the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Flight and Displacement , which takes place on June 20, together with World Refugee Day.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ June 20th is World Refugee Day. In: www.unhcr.de. Archived from the original on April 28, 2017 ; accessed on January 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ International Day of Remembrance on June 20: World Refugee Day. In: www.uno-fluechtlingshilfe.de. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016 ; accessed on January 12, 2019 .
  3. ^ World Refugee Day. In: www.un.org. June 20, 2004, archived from the original on February 8, 2005 ; accessed on January 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Over 50 million refugees worldwide. In: www.unhcr.de. June 20, 2014, archived from the original on 20160826 ; accessed on January 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Pope's message on World Refugee Day on Sunday. In: Vatican Radio. January 18, 2014, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on September 2, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Refugees Welcome: Refugee Day 2015. In: www.proasyl.de. Archived from the original on July 20, 2015 ; accessed on January 12, 2019 .