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OMNI United Nations WORLD REFUGEES DAY ANTHOLOGY #14, June 20, 2025.

 

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United Nations WORLD REFUGEES DAY ANTHOLOGY #14, June 20, 2025.

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, and ECOLOGY   

(OMNI Newsletter #1 June 20, 2008; #2 Dec. 4, 2011; #3 June 20, 2012; #4, June 20, 2014; #5, June 20, 2015; #6 June 20, 2017; #7, June 20, 2018; #8, June 20, 2019; #9, June 20, 2020; #10, June 20, 2021; #11, June 20, 2022; #12, June 20, 2023; #13, June 20, 2024; #14, June 20, 2025).

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What’s at Stake: “The Day offers an opportunity to build empathy and understanding for the plight of refugees and to recognize their resilience in rebuilding their lives. “  UN.

 

 

CONTENTS
United Nations World Refugee Day

AFSC

2024 World Refugee Day

 

TEXTS UN REFUGEE DAY AND WEEK

World Refugee Day

 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, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of RefugeesWikipedia

Theme 2025:  Community as a Superpower.

Related to: Refugee Week

Significance: Awareness day for refugees; Anti-discrimination day

The Day offers an opportunity to build empathy and understanding for the plight of refugees and to recognize their resilience in rebuilding their lives. In 2001, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) decided that 20 June would be celebrated as World Refugee Day (A/RES/55/76).

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“Help turn $40,000 into $80,000 this World Refugee Day!”   Amy Gottlieb, AFSC  

Dear Dick,  

Today is World Refugee Day. It’s a day to honor the courage and resilience of all who have had to flee their homes in search of safety. And it comes at a critical time for immigrant communities in the U.S. and refugees and displaced people around the world.  One way you can make a meaningful difference is to donate to AFSC’s Refugee Response Fund. Thanks to our matching gift challenge, your gift will go twice as far now through June 30. Please help turn $40,000 into $80,000 for humanitarian relief, advocacy, and more with a generous gift today!

 

Many people fleeing war, persecution, and other crises face dangerous travel conditions, including unreliable access to basic human needs like water, food, and shelter. And today, whether they are seeking asylum or have been part of our communities for decades, immigrants in the U.S. face a host of injustices.   

These times require much of us as people, as friends, and as neighbors. But we have a moral responsibility to respond. As a Quaker organization, AFSC holds a deep belief in the power of transformative love and the sanctity of human rights and dignity. We also know through more than a century of experience that when communities come together with commitment and courage, we can make a difference, even in the most challenging of times.  

 In peace,  

 

Amy Gottlieb, U.S. Migration Director

 

American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102

 

United Nations WORLD REFUGEES DAY ANTHOLOGY #14, June 20, 2024.

What’s at Stake:  World -Scale Problems Need World-Scale Resistance  

THE UNITED NATIONS HAS BEEN OUR GREAT DEFENDER AGAINST  CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, ESPECIALLY VIA ITS INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE

(IPCC)

JUNE 8, UN WORLD OCEANS DAY 
JUNE 17, UN DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT DAY

JUNE 20 , UN WORLD REFUGEES DAY

UNWRA, UN Relief Refugees Agency for Palestinian Refugees (recently defunded by Trump)

 

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Tale of Ahmed

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David Nasaw.  “(Don’t) Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor.”  (The Nation, ACLU, AFSC).

 

2023:  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-united-nations-world-refugees-day.html

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