World Refugee Day 2024 is on Thursday, June 20, 2024: Examples of refugees?

Thursday, June 20, 2024 is World Refugee Day 2024. World Refugee Day, observed June 20 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees throughout the world.

World Refugee Day, observed June 20 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees throughout the world.

World Refugee Day is June 20th. It was created by a special UN General Assembly Resolution.

As of Dec 31, 2005 the largest source countries of refugees are Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, and the Palestinian Territories.

The country with the largest number of IDPs (internally displaced persons) is South Sudan with over 5 million. As of 2006, with 800,000 refugees and IDPs, Azerbaijan had the highest per capital IDP population in the world. At the end of 2006 there were an estimated 24.5 million IDPs in 52 countries.

Serbia has over 220,000 IDPs from Kosovo after the arrival of NATO forces.

Palestinian territories have 150,000-420,000 internally displaced palestinians.

Mexico has between 25,000-1.6 million IDPs due to the war on drugs.

Israel has aobut 10,000 displaced Bedouins, most of whom are Arab citizens

India has aobut 150,000 Kashmiri Pandits IDPs due to violent and aggressive separatist movement

Since 1975 the USA has settled approximately 2.6 million refugees; 77% being either Indochinese of citizens of the former Soviet Union, annual admissions figures have ranged from a high of 207,116 in 1980 to a low of 27,100 in 2002.

Does the Australian government agree or disagree with the church on the issue of refugees?

The Australian Government of the present day, that is the Gillard Labor government has tried different approaches to finding a home for refugees. Not all pass Australian refugee tests and therefore are sent on to try for residency in a third country. The government has found that detention on Christmas Island and at Villawood Detention Centre and various other places throughout Australia didn't work very well.

Prime Minister Gillard has tried a deal with the Malaysian Government where by we take 4,000 refugees from places like Burma (Myanmar) Kampuchea or Vietnam in return for their taking 800 of our Afghan, Iraqi and Iranian refugees. This has been deemed to be illegal by the High Court of Australia.

Refugee Council of Australia

The Prime Minister has also attempted to get the Manus Island Papua New Guinea Refugee Base reopened. It was established by Prime Minister John Howard as a holding place for refugees some years back.

Amnesty International says that Manus Island would be as inhumane as Nauru Island bases were.

PNG Blogs

Manus Islanders back detention centre

Latest on Manus Island

As the Australian government's policy on refugees is not very clearly defined and constantly changing, it is difficult to determine whether it agrees with the beliefs or opinions held by various churches. Different churches have different views on how the refugee problem should be dealt with.

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