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I Summer School on Refugee Law was held on August 28-30. It was organized by the UNHCR in Belarus to attract interest of law students to the protection of refugee rights, as well as to educate young specialists who are going to work with human rights and humanitarian issues in future.
Number of recognized refugees in the Republic of Belarus — 938 (as of June 1, 2018)
Forced displacement above 68m in 2017, new global deal on refugees critical.
The Global Trends Report was made public on the eve of World Refugee Day on June, 20.
Read the excerpts from the report below. Resource: http://www.unhcr.org/news/press/2018/6/5b27c2434/forced-displacement-above-68m-2017-new-global-deal-refugees-critical.html
"No one chooses to be a refugee, but each of us can choose how to help them." Goodwill Ambassador of UNHCR in the Republic of Belarus, singer Iskui Abalyan.
On 20 June, a traditional press conference dedicated to World Refugee Day was organized at the National Press Center of the Republic of Belarus.
20 June- World Refugee Day
Every year on June, 20 the world community marks World Refugee Day. On this day we pay tribute to the resilience of refugees around the world.
See the message of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi!
On the eve of World Refugee Day an exhibition of creative works "Refugees: Belarus is our common home" was organized at the Faculty of International Relations of Belarusian State University. Do not miss it! Also in the library of the FIR BSU there is an information stand with relevant literature on the problem of forced migration and refugees.
Today, another issue of equal importance with the issue of refugees is the problem of statelessness. In November 2014, UNHCR launched a global campaign #IBelong.
In Belarus there are about 6,000 people who are not citizens of any state. "A stateless person" is a legal term used in such cases.
Let's hear about statelessness in the world and in Belarus. Let's talk about its causes and consequences. Let's find out about the UNHCR global campaign to eliminate statelessness #IBelong. How and what to write about it?
Our photo album is replenished with new photos! On the eve of World Refugee Day, we gathered the brightest moments of the work of CCA "Evrika" with our refugee children. And do not forget that the republican exhibition of children's creative works "We are different, we are together" runs from June, 6 to 30 in the Museum of the History of Minsk, do not miss it!
Training on the social, pedagogical and psychological support of students from among refugees, forcibly displaced persons and foreign citizens for pedagogical workers of vocational training institutions became one in a row of the activities organized on the eve of World Refugee Day. The training is designed in two phases, the second part will be held in the autumn of 2018. The first stage of the event took place on May 28-29, 2018 and was organized by the Republican Institute of Vocational Training in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Non-Governmental Association for Scientific Research, Information and Educational Programmes “Evolutio” on the basis of the Industrial and Pedagogical College of Minsk.
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