Tag: UNHCR
Giving Tuesday is about giving (surprise, surprise). After a weekend of eating (Thanksgiving in the US) and shopping (Black Friday and Cyber Monday) like crazy, today is a day to give back. Being grateful that you have enough food to eat and enough money to spend, now is the perfect time to donate to your favourite charity. It doesn’t have to be a huge amount of money, most organizations take any small amount that you have. What I always keep repeating is if everybody who can spare just $5 would give $5 from time to time, most of the world’s problems…
World Refugee Day seems to have a more significant meaning each year. There are more refugees in the world today than ever before since World War II. While for a long time for most of us in Europe refugees were thought to be one of the abstract phenomena that is taken care of by international organizations, this past year this phenomenon came knocking on our doors asking for shelter. Even those of us who didn’t meet them face to face on the streets on a daily basis could easily understand what it means to see their faces among the news…
Happy Sunday everybody! Seems like the weather finally got the memo that it’s almost summer already (at least in Hungary). I hope you are having a great weekend too. Here’s some reading to add to it… The World Humanitarian Summit: A Preview It was about time for a summit like this. As I often like to emphasize, I am a firm believer that the majority of the world’s problems could be solved with the financial resources we do have. All it would take is proper coordination and transparency of the utilization of these resources. I hope that the summit can…
Hello Everybody! I hope you all have spent the longest Saturday of the decade well! I keep being busy with important deadlines approaching both in my work and my studies, that’s the reason this blog seems to be neglected these days. Here’s what I recommend from my weekly reading anyway: UN Chief Warns Military Strikes in Iraq May Backfire The Secretary General actually suggests that keeping things unresolved once again and arming one side against the other would probably even worsen things in the region. World Refugee Day Draws Attention to Shortcomings of International Law World Refugee Day was Friday…
– Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis over 1,6 million people left Syria to seek refuge in another country. – That accounts roughly for 6% of Syria’s overall population. – Most usually they flee for one of the neighbouring countries – Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt. – Having to cope with such a large number of refugees puts a heavy burden on the host countries, especially those not quite well off themselves. – The majority of Syrian refugees arrive with not much more than their clothes on, so they cannot get by without aid. – Three-quarters of the Syrian refugees…
The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has issued its ‘Global Trends’ report, revealing that 2011 saw the highest number of newly created refugees since 2000.
