What is World Refugee Day: Know more about it

June 20, 2001, has been designated by the United Nations as World Refugee Day. ((Picture: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain, File)

As a mark of respect and to honour the braveness and dedication and resilience of refugees June 20, ever 12 months is noticed as World Refugee Day.

Why June 20?

It has been designated by the United Nations (UN) to honour the braveness of the refugees internationally. Nevertheless, the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus 2020 uncovered the situation and vulnerability of those that are fleeing their international locations or displaced inside their international locations. The pandemic compelled many international locations globally to shut their borders to cease the unfold of the virus. This meant those that had been attempting to maneuver to different locations had been unable to get any assist and had been left with out correct well being care and confronted big financial disaster.

This present day is noticed globally to primarily create consciousness in regards to the refugees who’re fleeing or displaced not as a result of they’re underneath privileged or poor however are working from conflicts, water disaster, local weather change and inside disaster.

The UNHCR has set ”Collectively we heal, study and shine’’ as a theme for World Refugee Day. Which means that no matter their faiths, individuals everywhere in the world should work collectively to assist in welcoming these stateless, displaced individuals, those that have been compelled to flee their international locations or those that are refugees.

Based on the UNHCR, doing actions like arts, training, sports activities, or music collectively helps in constructing the arrogance and abilities of the individuals who have been transferring in adversarial conditions.

When the primary World Refugee Day was noticed?

June 20, 2001, has been designated by the United Nations as World Refugee Day. This present day has been devoted to the refugees all over the world. And today additionally commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the “1951 Conference regarding the Standing of Refugees.” Earlier it was often known as Africa Refugee Day and in December 2020, the UN Common Meeting designated it as a world day.

So who’s a refugee?

No, not the poor and underneath privileged, however the UN 1951 Refugee Conference states these individuals who have fled their international locations and houses due to “a well-founded worry of persecution due to his/her nationality, race, faith, political opinion or membership of a selected social group”.

These individuals in a single day develop into homeless and stateless, in search of a spot to dwell and earn livelihood. Apart from wars, pure calamities like floods, earthquakes, landslides, cyclones drive individuals to go away their residence to search out refuge.