15 Ideas To Celebrate World Refugee Day
15 Ideas To Celebrate World Refugee Day June 20th is World Refugee Day! This annual celebration is an opportunity to honor and uplift those affected by displacement. According to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, over 122 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide by the end of April 2025, including 42.7 million refugees. This number continues to grow as funding for international aid decreases. It’s important to look beyond just the staggering numbers, and realize that each of those individuals has a face, a story, and a set of hopes and dreams they hope to achieve. World Refugee Day was established on June 20, 2001, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. My family and I became refugees in 2006, leaving Baghdad and moving to Syria, which was taking in refugees at the time. After over a year of interviews, we received a phone call: we had four one-way tickets to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We were incredibly lucky. Only 2% of all re…
