World Refugee Day: Quotes, Wishes, Messages, Images, Date, and More

Introduction of World Refugee Day 

World Refugee Day is a worldwide day governed every year on 20 June by the United Nations. It is organized to commemorate and honour refugees from around the nation. The day was first founded on 20 June 2001 as a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1951. The occasion aims to recognize the courage of the refugees who have disappeared in the war and persecution of their region in the hope of discovering sanctuary and residing a satisfactory life. World Refugee Day assembles the notion of awareness for their hardship which exhibits one's strength and motivation in the rebuilding of their destiny. The day is an alternative for everyone to endure, appreciate and enjoy the rich assortment of the populations of refugees. Exhibitions such as theatre, prom, movies, and symphony purpose to authorize refugee society organizations, impulsive and statutory organizations, provincial committees, and schools to host occasions during the week to honour the cause. World Refugee Day is also commemorated through World Refugee Week and is formulated to furnish a significant opportunity for insurance pleaders and refugees to be glimpsed, heard to and esteemed by the society that they are colonizing. A refugee is a soul who departs their country due to the ramifications of conflict, disagreement, persecutions and turmoil that they have encountered within their home region. By attempting the procedure of stretching international boundaries, some refugees are frequently found to quit everything behind, holding up only minimal clothing and ownership, aiming to learn safety and shelter in several countries. The 1951 Refugee Convention affirms a refugee as a person incapable of returning to their region of origin owing to the founded belief of prevailing influence by their class, religion, participation of a city committee, or different political viewpoints. Refugees play a part in the world as when they are situated to have a permit to the formal job reliefs in their host region; they can utilize their proficiency to help in replenishing the gap of a country's labour demand. These inclusions in the community build a more varied civilization and multicultural nation, which empowers the community with the alternative to learn from each other.

History of World Refugee Day  

20 June was agreed upon by the United Nations General Assembly while accepting Resolution 55/76, on 4 December 2000. In 2001, on 20 June, World Refugee Day was commemorated for the initial moment. The occasion captioned the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, which contracts with the safety of refugees internationally.

The conference celebrated refugees to honour, increase perception and plead for assistance to those implicated around the earth. African Refugee Day had been traditionally dedicated in numerous countries preceding it. The UN pointed out that the Organization of African Unity (OAU) had approved to have International Refugee Day coincide with Africa Refugee Day on 20 June. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees commenced the hashtag's With Refugees request to transmit a message to the nation of the effort, solidarity, and burden on behalf of refugees to administrations worldwide. There have been programs and reserves that have been put into a niche that aims to circulate the message to nurture the nation about the way of being for refugees. The United Nations works along with the population to attempt to end the refugee problem and find residences for displaced people widespread. In 1967, the United Nations had expanded the number of people who would pertain to refugee reputation because of the laws of the 1951 Convention, which had interpreted a refugee as a soul or person who had been compelled to escape their homes because of World War II. This appeared to be known as the 1967 Protocol. The protocol at the time had reduced the time boundaries and geographical explanations of what it meant to be a refugee. Each year on 20 June, the United Nations, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and urban groups around the world host World Refugee Day events in the public's awareness to the millions of refugees and Internally displaced individuals worldwide who have been urged to leave their homes due to war, conflict and persecution. The annual memorial is marked by a variation of events in more than 100 countries, involving administration officials, humanitarian support workers, fame, civilians and the forcibly expelled themselves.

When is World Refugee Day Celebrated? 

June festival celebrates the survivor of nations that are none other than refugees. It is a worldwide celebration on 20 June.

World Refugee Day 2023 Date

• When is World Refugee Day 2023?

World Refugee Day for the year 2023 is celebrated/observed on Tuesday, 20 June.

• World Refugee Day dates for the years 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026

World Refugee Day Quotes

• To be called a refugee is the opposite of an insult; it is a badge of strength, courage, and victory.- Tennessee Office for Refugees
• You have never experienced real suffering until you’ve been forced to flee the warmth of your home in order to keep on living.
• 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
• Refugees are not terrorists. They are often the first victims of terrorism. – António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres
• 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
• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. – Martin Luther King Jr.
• How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country? – Thanhha Lai
• A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself.- Poul Hartling
• 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
• It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks – Dina Nayeri
• But if the world measures a refugee according to the worst story, we will always excuse human suffering, saying it is not yet as bad as someone else’s. – Victoria Armour-Hileman
• I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.. -Kofi Annan
• The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. – Albert Einstein
• No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land. – Warsan Shire
• Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues. – Cynthia Basinet
• A refugee is someone who survived and who can create the future. – Amela Koluder
• No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. – Warsan Shire
• 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
• Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don’t stop at a nation’s borders.-Warren Christopher
• 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

World Refugee Day Wishes

• Refugee children are not criminals – they are trying to escape violence
• Refugees also comprise of children who have been robbed of their childhood and education. Let us remember the child refugees on World Refugee Day.
• Refugees are fighters. They have survived genocide, rape, and assassination. They are a group of people who are always in a state of struggle. World Refugee Day is an occasion to honour those who have fled persecution.
• Open the borders and hearts to refugees!
• Every refugee needs food and water to survive
• No matter where you are from, we’re all human beings
• Stand up to racism against people of color
• I am a refugee
• When we turn our backs on refugees, we turn our backs on the principles that guide us as human beings
• We hear too many stories of families being torn apart every day
• The living conditions of Refugees are appalling. For food and shelter, they are completely at the mercy of others. World Refugee Day allows us to learn about the refugees’ struggle for survival and food.

World Refugee Day Messages

• When forced from their home, refugees carry with them only what they can and take refuge in places they never imagined #ShareKindness
• We #StandWithRefugees because we believe in celebrating diversity and culture!
• Silence is welcome no more, open your voice
• Let us remember the refugees who had to flee their homes and start a new life in a new shelter on World Refugee Day.
• Refugees don’t flee, they search for sanctuary
• Let us all stand up for the right of every single human being to live under a safe and dignified roof
• Live and let live
• Borders can’t keep people from crossing them. A heart does.
• United together
• Nobody goes out of his house without a cause. The circumstances had to be unfavourable for the individual to flee his home and become a refugee. Let us aim to understand that refugees have a specific explanation for fleeing their homes on World Refugee Day.
• Let’s celebrate the first #WorldRefugeeDay and lend a helping hand to refugees around the world.
• Even if someone is a refugee, he has the right to a dignified life. World Refugee Day allows us to recognise refugees’ need to live a dignified life.
• Let us support the families who need it most
• Let’s support refugees
• Dare to hope – human rights matter everywhere!
• Let’s be humble and help those less fortunate

Why is World Refugee Day Celebrated? 

World Refugee Day twinkles a glint on the liberties, demands, and fantasies of refugees, assisting in lining up political will and reserves so refugees can survive and thrive. While it is crucial to conserve and expand the lives of refugees every sole day, international days like World Refugee Day help to concentrate global attention on the hardship of those fleeing dispute or persecution. Many pieces of training held on World Refugee Day develop chances to help refugees.

How do we Celebrate World Refugee Day? 

In the following years, we decide and dedicate the theme towards it : 

• 2021:" Together we can achieve anything" intends to enable healing by improving refugees' permit to healthcare health care, sexual and reproductive conditions, nourishment, and mental health aids.
• 2020: "Every Actions Counts", the COVID-19 epidemic, along with the anti-racism revolts, was a clue to exhibit how desperately the desire to protest for a more comprehensive and equal nation, the movement where no one is left-back.

Interesting Facts about Refugees 

1. An estimated 25% of internally displaced people are young women, with pregnant women making up another 4%.
2. The highest figure ever recorded is of 79.5 million people around the world who have been forcibly displaced. More than 80-85% of the world's refugees and given shelter by developing countries.
3. Among the Syrian refugee family, 80% of them live below the poverty line. One person is displaced every two seconds.
4. An average figure of 42,500 people says that they flee their own homes to seek protected shelter within the border of their own country.
5. The civil war in Syria has led to one of the worst humanitarian crises of our lifetime. More than 11 million Syrians are currently displaced. This amounts to 45% of the Syrian population.
6. According to the UNHCR, there are 65.3 million forcibly displaced people around the world. More than 21 million of these people are refugees, and 10 million are stateless.
7. Developing countries host 86% of the world's refugees. This number has jumped by 16% in the last decade. Refugees only account for a tiny percentage of overall immigration.
8. In the last year alone, there have been 13.9 million people newly displaced. 
9. As per the records of United Nations, more than 6 million refugees live in camps worldwide. These camps are not a permanent home for these people but provide them with temporary shelter and facilities that give them immediate protection and assistance tot hose who have left their home because of war, or any other situation. These camps also provide them with food, water and medical assistance.