World Refugee Day - 20th June

 

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The agency highlights the fundamental need for protection. For some, this means economic security; for others, protection is freedom from violence and persecution. On World Refugee Day, we turn our attention to the millions of refugees who live without material, social and legal protection.

 

Protection is also about raising awareness. We cannot protect refugees if their plight remains invisible. On World Refugee Day, we highlight the universal nature of protection. Not only are refugees protected all around the globe, but the responsibility for protection is equally global.

 

We want to promote engagement at the grassroots level, in local communities, workplaces and online. Only through a global network of supporters can we meet the manifold needs of protection.

 

 

 

 

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8.5.2009

Now there are only 150,000 refugees and asylum seekers in the entire region of West Africa, most of whom are Liberian, Mauritanian and Senegalese. Ghana hosts the highest concentration of refugees in the region.

 

1.6.2009

 

The suffering and need of millions of Pakistan’s displaced people has the potential to be protracted, lasting for many months, according to UK relief and development agency Tearfund.

According to local sources, as many as 3.4 million people are now reported to be vulnerable after being uprooted from their homes in the Swat Valley and neighbouring areas of northern Pakistan; the majority leaving since the Pakistan Army began its recent offensive last month.

Tearfund says that the scale of need should focus international attention and trigger a major humanitarian response to avoid prolonging the suffering.

 

11.3.2009

Hundreds of Zimbabwean refugees have arrived in central Johannesburg and are living on the streets following the closure of a refugee processing centre at the show grounds in Musina, Limpopo.

29th April

According to the UN, over 6,500 civilians have been killed, thousands more injured, and a stream of over 100,000 refugees has recently left the LTTE stronghold, and the Sri Lankan government has halted the use of heavy-caliber weaponry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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