UN Women joins interagency activities to commemorate World Refugee Day

Za’atari and Madaba, 8 June 2015. Within the framework of joint inter-agency efforts to mark the commemoration of World Refugee Day 2015, UN Women organized two awareness raising activities in the UN Women-led ‘Women and Girls Oasis’ of the Za’atari refugee camp and in Madaba, in collaboration with Youth for Youth Association. This year’s theme for Jordan is “Standing together”, which encompasses all groups involved in supporting refugees, starting with refugees themselves, host communities, humanitarian partners, donors and national authorities.

More than 180 participants from all age range attended the awareness raising activities, enthusiastically taking part in the joint art project using recycled camp tents.

First marked in 2001 by the United Nations, 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.