BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.10//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:Network Calendar NAME:Network Calendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20010325T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20011028T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:World Refugee Day DTSTAMP:20221225T103226Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:317-7-014e54df8e55db0ddedbc25b476240ab@moraga.se ORGANIZER;CN="Julio Moraga":julio@moraga.se DESCRIPTION:\n (A/RES/55/76)\n\n\n\n Whoever. Wherever. Whenever. Everyo ne has the right to seek safety.\n\n World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on June 20 and celebrates 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 unde rstanding for their plight and to recognize their resilience in rebuilding their lives.\n\n\n\n World Refugee Day 2022\n\n Whoever they are\, people forced to flee should be treated with dignity. Anyone can seek protection \, regardless of who they are or what they believe. It is non-negotiable: seeking safety is a human right.\n\n\n\n Wherever they come from\, people forced to flee should be welcomed. Refugees come from all over the globe. To get out of harm’s way\, they might take a plane\, a boat\, or travel on foot. What remains universal is the right to seek safety.\n\n\n\n Whene ver people are forced to flee\, they have a right to be protected. Whateve r the threat – war\, violence\, persecution – everyone deserves protec tion. Everyone has a right to be safe.\n\n\n\n Background\n\n Every minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war\, persecution or terror. There are several types of forcibly displaced persons:\n\n\n\n Refugees\n\ n A refugee is someone who fled his or her home and country owing to “a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her race\, religion\, nati onality\, membership in a particular social group\, or political opinion ”\, according to the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention. Many refuge es are in exile to escape the effects of natural or human-made disasters.\ n\n\n\n Asylum Seekers\n\n Asylum seekers say they are refugees and have f led their homes as refugees do\, but their claim to refugee status is not yet definitively evaluated in the country to which they fled.\n\n\n\n Inte rnally Displaced Persons\n\n Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are peopl e who have not crossed an international border but have moved to a differe nt region than the one they call home within their own country.\n\n\n\n St ateless Persons\n\n Stateless persons do not have a recognized nationality and do not belong to any country.\n\n\n\n Statelessness situations are us ually caused by discrimination against certain groups. Their lack of ident ification — a citizenship certificate — can exclude them from access t o important government services\, including health care\, education or emp loyment.\n\n\n\n Returnees\n\n Returnees are former refugees who return to their own countries or regions of origin after time in exile. Returnees n eed continuous support and reintegration assistance to ensure that they ca n rebuild their lives at home.\n\n\n\n UN Action\n\n 1951 Refugee Conventi on and its 1967 Protocol\n\n Refugees are among the most vulnerable people in the world. The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol help prot ect them. They are the only global legal instruments explicitly covering t he most important aspects of a refugee’s life. According to their provis ions\, refugees deserve\, as a minimum\, the same standards of treatment e njoyed by other foreign nationals in a given country and\, in many cases\, the same treatment as nationals.\n\n\n\n The 1951 Convention contains a n umber of rights and also highlights the obligations of refugees towards th eir host country. The cornerstone of the 1951 Convention is the principle of non-refoulement. According to this principle\, a refugee should not be returned to a country where he or she faces serious threats to his or her life or freedom. This protection may not be claimed by refugees who are re asonably regarded as a danger to the security of the country\, or having b een convicted of a particularly serious crime\, are considered a danger to the community.\n\n\n\n The rights contained in the 1951 Convention includ e:\n\n\n\n The right not to be expelled\, except under certain\, strictly defined conditions\;\n\n The right not to be punished for illegal entry in to the territory of a contracting State\;\n\n The right to work\;\n\n The right to housing\;\n\n The right to education\;\n\n The right to public re lief and assistance\;\n\n The right to freedom of religion\;\n\n The right to access the courts\;\n\n The right to freedom of movement within the te rritory\;\n\n The right to be issued identity and travel documents.\n\n So me basic rights\, including the right to be protected from refoulement\, a pply to all refugees. A refugee becomes entitled to other rights the longe r they remain in the host country\, which is based on the recognition that the longer they remain as refugees\, the more rights they need.\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20010620 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR