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Refugee Week is a nationwide festival designed to promote understanding and to celebrate the cultural contributions of refugees, and features many events such as music, dance and theatre. [94] In the Roman Catholic Church, the World Day of Migrants and Refugees is celebrated in January each year, since instituted in 1914 by Pope Pius X. [95]
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, [1] in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
Refugees International (RI) is an independent humanitarian organization that advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crises. It does not accept United Nations or government funding.
Bertolt Brecht – German playwright, refugee from the Nazis during World War II; Elias Canetti – a Bulgarian refugee, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981; Joseph Conrad – author of Heart of Darkness and a refugee. Anne Frank – German-Jewish teen who fled with her family to the Netherlands during WWII.
Prior to the 1951 convention, the League of Nations' Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, of 28 October 1933, dealt with administrative measures such as the issuance of Nansen certificates, refoulement, legal questions, labour conditions, industrial accidents, welfare and relief, education, fiscal regime and exemption from reciprocity, and provided for the creation of ...
The International Refugee Organization: a specialized agency of the United Nations, its history and work, 1946–1952 (Oxford UP, 1956. 1956) online; Holborn, Louise W. Philip Chartrand, and Rita Chartrand. Refugees, a problem of our time: the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1951-1972 (Scarecrow Press, 1975).
UNHCR registered refugees by country/territory of asylum between 2022 and 2010 Country/territory of asylum Refugees per 1,000 inhabitants in mid-2015 [1] 2022 [2] 2019 [3] mid-2016 [4]
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (17 January 1933 – 12 May 2003) was a French-born statesman and activist who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1966 to 1977, during which he reoriented the agency's focus beyond Europe and prepared it for an explosion of complex refugee issues. He was also a proponent of greater ...