Get to know ‘Refugees’

10 True or False Questions

UNHCR was established in 1950.

True.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly.

The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide.

1950

20 June is World Refugee Day.

True.

First marked in 2001, World Refugee Day is held every year on June 20. Tens of thousands of people around the world take time to recognize and applaud the contribution of forcibly displaced people throughout the world.

World Refugee Day:

A refugee is someone who has

been forcibly uprooted from their

homes within their country.

False. The 1951 Refugee Convention spells out

‘a refugee is someone who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country."

Refugee

There are far more female

refugees than male refugees.

False (for data from end of 2011)

On Average, women and girls constituted 49% of persons of concern to UNHCR. They accounted for 48% of refugees, and half of all IDPs and returnees (former refugees).

However, sometimes there are far more women and children in the refugee population. In Syria, there are more than 75% of refugees are women and children.

Women and girls:

Hong Kong is a signatory of 1951

Refugee Convention.

False.

UNHCR is working to promote accession of 1951 Refugee Convention in Hong Kong.

1951 Refugee Convention

Syrian Arab Republic is the host to

the largest number of refugees

worldwide.

False.

Pakistan was host to the largest number of refugees worldwide (1.7million), followed by the Islamic Republic of Iran (887,000) and the Syrian Arab Republic (755,440; Government’s estimate).

(by end of 2011).

Pakistan

Climate refugees are not refugees.

True. Where people affected by such disasters cross an international border, they would not normally qualify as refugees who are entitled to international protection within the existing international refugee framework.

Climate Change is a Humanitarian problem.

Where people flee, UNHCR is there to help.

Climate Displacement

Shelter is the only thing UNHCR

can provide to refugees.

False. UNHCR provides Physical and Legal protection to Persons of Concern, includes

• Physical safety

• Identity

• Right to access human rights

• Right to seek asylum

• Right to access basic needs

• Return home on voluntarily basis

Protection

Voluntary Repatriation is not an

durable solution

to refugees.

False.

Voluntary Repatriation, Local Integration and Resettlement are three durable solutions to refugees.

Durable solutions

Anyone could be a refugee.

True.

Every minute eight people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror.

For many refugees the choice is between the horrific or something worse.

No one chooses to be a refugee by choice.

No one chooses to be a refugee

• Give Refugees A Handhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=dBFbaf4emkI&feature=endscreen

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