World Refugee Day is a transnational day selected by the United Nations to significant and honor refugees around the globe. It is celebrated internationally and falls each year on June 20 and rejoices in the power and courage of people who have been enforced to abscond their home country to spurt conflict or persecution.
World Refugee Day was held globally for the first time on June 20, 2001, memorializing the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention unfolding to the Status of Refugees. It was formerly acknowledged as Africa Refugee Day. Later, the United Nations General Assembly officially designated it as an international day in December 2000.
World Refugee Day is a privileged occurrence to dimension understanding and acceptance of their predicament and to recognize the resilience of refugees in the transformation of their lives.
Refugees are nationless Individuals who do not have a documented ethnic group or nationality and circumstances are generally instigated and triggered by discernment and discrimination against certain groups.
The refugee is devoid of documentation and identification, a citizenship certificate and they are not accessible to imperative government amenities, including health care, education, or employment, and other benefit needs.
According to the latest United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report on forced displacement,
“Turkey currently hosts 3.6 million refugees, the largest by a single country followed by Columbia that shelters 1.8 million people, including people who fled Venezuela in the last few years.”
World Refugee Day benevolence and an opportunity to recognize and admire the spirit of the millions of refugees who have been wretched by the severity of complexes and conflicts and live a life of exile. Refugees around the globe are forced to take off their households and background identity.
The day is also highlighted attributively and acknowledged for the big-heartedness of the group of people and communities that host them. Several imperative initiatives are taken by united global toward the benevolent partners that help them.
The theme of World Refugee Day 2021 is Together we heal, learn and shine.
The United Nations stated about World Refugee Day,
“We mark World Refugee Day with news that the immense global forced displacement crisis has reached a disturbing new high, affecting more than 82 million people who are forcibly displaced, including more than 26 million refugees. These figures and the UN Refugee Agency’s theme for this year’s World Refugee Day, Together we heal, learn, and shine are calling to action for all countries to ensure refugees have access to protection, life-saving care, and opportunities to learn so they can thrive in their host communities.”
The United States is taking up the responsibility of management on refugee resettlement comprising the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which has greeted more than 3.1 million refugees since 1980.
The programmers have already engaged in the acute steps of raising the annual refugee admissions target to 62,500 for the Fiscal Year 2021 and restoring regional allocations for resettlement to ensure that access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program is based on refugees vulnerability, responds to the emergency need for emigration across all regions of the world, and reproduces the American belief of greeting refugees.
World Refugee Day 2021 has taken several initiatives to make difference for refugees by facilitating them with basic rights.
The new government and Biden-Harris Administration are enforcing to put America’s utmost standards at the center of foreign policy and offering encouragement to mistreated people for whom permanent resettlement is needed and the world needs to pay attention to the wretchedness of refugees.
Refugee resettlement is the conduct that is ascribed to the United States and maintenances compulsorily evacuated people around the world. The United States which is ascribed as the world’s largest single donor of humanitarian assistance shows a fundamental role in promoting and fostering the international response to displacement crises. United Nations proclaimed,
“In addition to providing life-saving services, our assistance supports the tireless work of humanitarian partner organizations to provide health care as well as livelihood and educational opportunities so that people fleeing persecution can heal, learn, and shine even in the challenging context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyone deserves these opportunities, and we will continue to call on other countries to help us sustain humanitarian responses and find lasting solutions globally.”
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
“Nearly 82.4 million individuals Worldwide were forcibly displaced by the end of 2020 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.”
In the crisis year, 2020 United Nation delivered a supplementary $10.5 billion in humanitarian aid globally that comprises assistance for refugees as well.
The end note
World Refugee Day is not something to celebrate every year, but also a concept to raise awareness about individuals who are suffering just because of their national conflicts. They did not choose to be this way, circumstance did. Let us all make this world as beautiful, equal, and accessible to them as it is to a lot of people.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Refugee_Day
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/refugees-countries-asylum-world-refugee-day-june-20-2021
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/105197/June-20-marks-World-Refugee-Day-Will-the-suffering-ever
