News: World Refugee Day

World Refugee Day is commemorated each year on June 20th to "celebrate the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution. World Refugee Day is an occasion to build empathy and understanding for their plight and to recognize their resilience in rebuilding their lives." Here is the High Commissioner's statement.

You can find events and activities here to participate in and/or follow the live blog and Twitter hashtag to learn about what's happening around the world. For messages of support, search on "World Refugee Day" in ReliefWeb.

This is also a day when many organizations release new research and resources and announce new initiatives and projects; here is a small sampling (I will be adding to the list throughout the day):

Commemorating World Refugee Day (Berghahn Books) [text]

DCU announces 30 scholarships to mark World Refugee Day (Dublin City University) [text]

The Displacement Continuum: The relationship between internal displacement and cross-border movement in seven countries (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) [text]

Filling the Forced Displacement Evidence Gap: Taking Stock on World Refugee Day (Innovations for Poverty Action) [text]

IRRI Press Statement on World Refugee Day 2020: Self-reliance as a contemporary ‘durable solution’ to forced displacement (International Refugee Rights Initiative) [text]

Leaving no one behind: socio-economic inclusion and self-reliance of refugees and host communities, key to Kenya’s development (ILO) [text]

LERRN Announces Plans for Refugee Advisory Network (Carleton Univ.) [text]

Migration Governance and Policy in the Global South (UNU) [access]
- Open access articles published in special section of International Migration.

World Refugee Day: Access to information as important as food and shelter (DW) [text]

World Refugee Day: New research demonstrates dramatic impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable refugees (IFRC) [text]
- Focuses on refugees in Turkey.

World Refugee Day 2020 (Univ. of London) [text]

World Refugee Day 2020: How attitudes toward refugees have changed since the COVID-19 outbreak (IPSOS) [text]

Related posts:
- News: 2019 Global Trends Report Published (18 June 2020)
- Events & Opportunities: Lead Up to World Refugee Day (14 June 2020)