World Refugee Day.Refugees Have No Choice You Do !
There are more refugees in the world today than ever previously recorded — and more than half are children.
Nearly 60 million people were counted as forcibly displaced in 2014, according to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
If those people were the population of one country, it would be the 24th largest in the world.
One person out of every 122 on the planet is said to be either a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum.
The conflict in Syria has been the biggest single driver of displacement, according to the refugee agency’s Global Trends report –
Turkey became the world’s top refugee-hosting nation in 2014, with 1.59 million Syrians within its borders. Within the EU, Germany and Sweden received the most asylum applications.
Most refugees come from the Middle East, with 7.6 million Syrians taking to the road within their own country, and 3.88 million having become refugees.
Many more come from sub-Saharan Africa, fleeing conflicts in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere.
In Asia, the report highlights growing numbers of people fleeing Myanmar.
And in the Americas, there was a rise in the number of people seeking to escape gang violence in Central America.
Asylum claims in the United States were up 44% over the year.
In a briefing paper, Amnesty Internationalalso called the current refugee crisis the worst since the Second World War.
This Saturday, June 20, was the UNHCR’s World Refugee Day.
How you can help ?!
There are many ways that you can help refugees, whether they are right in your own community or half a world away.
Over the decades, millions of refugees have resettled to countries around the globe to rebuild their lives. You can help create a welcoming and supportive environment for those arriving in your community. If there are refugee services in your area, contact them and see if there’s something you can do to help, even if it’s just extending a smile and a welcoming hand.
Some ideas at the community level could include:
Support World Refugee Day (June 20) events in your community.
Set up a fundraising event to help refugees.
Write to your local government representatives to support the refugee cause.
cover refugee issues and raise public awareness.
Subscribe to refugee publications, including UNHCR e-newsletters
Invite refugees or those who help them to speak in schools, workplaces and clubs.
Encourage teachers to include refugee issues in classroom discussions.Information for teachers.
On a more global level, individuals and groups can support the work of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which has offices in more than 120 countries and cares for tens of millions of refugees and displaced people worldwide
Donate in support of UNHCR field operations around the world.
Apply for an internship at the UNHCR office in your country.
Businesses and foundations wanting to support the refugee cause can contact UNHCR’s Corporate and Foundation Partnerships Unit in Geneva.
If you are an experienced, skilled professional, offer your services as a UN Volunteer.
UNV is administered by the UN Development Program and mobilizes more than 7,500 volunteers for development projects worldwide each year, including programs to help refugees.
Join UNHCR’s digital dialogue via Twitter, Facebook, Causes, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr and other platforms.
Nominate a candidate for the annual Nansen Refugee Award, which is given out every October to a person or group for outstanding services in supporting refugee cause
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