World Refugee Day 2024 | UNHCR (2024)

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World Refugee Day Theme 2024

Promote empathy and understanding: Fostering compassion and solidarity towards those forced to flee their homes. Advocate for change: Urging governments and individuals to take action to support refugees and uphold their rights.

The 2024 budget of $10.622 billion is designed to enable UNHCR and its partners to provide life-saving protection, assistance and solutions in new and existing displacement situations to a projected planning figure of 130.8 million forcibly displaced and stateless people.

Baltimore, MD – The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) is on track to resettle the most refugees in three decades, and potentially meet the Biden administration's goal of resettling 125,000 refugees in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, according to newly published State Department data.

In 2024, UNHCR plans to invest in resettlement; building complementary pathways, and enhancing access to family reunification in 148 countries. UNHCR will press governments to reduce the gap between resettlement needs and the number of places available.

From Sunday 16 to Saturday 22 June 2024 we will celebrate Refugee Week with the theme of Finding Freedom:Family.

The words “World Refugee Day” are placed at the centre top of the figures, and “20 June” is placed at under the figures at the centre. All elements of the logo are the one color – green.

In the first eight months of FY 2023, refugees' top initial resettlement destinations were Texas (approximately 10 percent, or 3,100 individuals), New York (6 percent, or 2,000 refugees), California (6 percent, or 1,800 individuals), Kentucky (5 percent, or 1,600), and Pennsylvania (5 percent, or 1,500).

UNHCR identifies people who are most at risk of serious harm in the country where they are registered, and also in their home country, usually because of threats to their life, freedom or physical safety, or other serious violations of human rights.

The government stages of the process also usually take several months or longer. For the United States, this process can take several years. Most governments also require interviews and paperwork to decide whether to resettle an individual.

Nearly 110 million people are now forcibly displaced, more than at any other time in history. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 2.4 million refugees are now in need of protection through third-country resettlement.

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World Refugee Day is an annual event celebrated on June 20 to honour the strength and courage of refugees around the globe. The theme for World Refugee Day 2023 is "Hope Away from Home." This theme highlights the resilience of refugees, who have often lost everything but their hope for a better future.

Refugee is about survival and courage from the point of view of the refugee for sure, but it is also about the courage of those not directly affected, the courage to step up and make a change.

An empowering poem on migration and diversity creating an understanding for the fact that it takes so little to turn a 'someone' into a refugee because, following the speaker, we 'all came here from somewhere'.

I call on the world to harness the hope that refugees carry in their hearts. Let's match their courage with the opportunities they need, every step of the way. Refugees represent the very best of the human spirit.